48 min ago | Boston Herald
Biden vows to 'beat the gun lobby' and pass laws
A scrappy Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to "beat the gun lobby" by ultimately passing stronger firearm laws and said some lawmakers who voted against background checks have privately told him they want another chance.
1 hr ago | People
Veep 's Julia Louis-Dreyfus Recalls 'Embarrassing' Lunch with Joe Biden
Julia Louis-Dreyfus , star of HBO's political comedy Veep , says having lunch with the real Vice President Joe Biden and meeting his staffers - who showed some resemblance to the characters in her show - was nothing short of "mind-blowing."
5 hrs ago | The Washington Post
Hillary's record is the problem
Hillary Clinton has never been with the hard left on foreign policy so we shouldn't be surprised she is now on the wrong side as far as progressives are concerned on the NSA .
9 hrs ago | KIDK CBS 3
Biden to tout administration success on gun violence
Weeks after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., last December, President Barack Obama issued 23 directives aimed at curbing the threat of gun violence.
11 hrs ago | Switched
Joe Biden Freshens Gun Control Push To Congress
Working to maintain gun policy reform's place in the political conversation, Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will urge Congress to act on the White House slate of proposals.
11 hrs ago | Examiner.com
Oops! Isn't that a gun the president is playing with?
In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, supposedly 69 percent of Americans, which included 58 percent of Republicans now say, Congress should do something about background checks as a way to deter gun violence.
12 hrs ago | Washington Examiner
Obama defends surveillance that he decried as senator
The civil libertarian Left and much of the public have reversed positions on phone monitoring since George W. Bush was president.
Sen. Cowan to minorities: Take part in democracy
U.S. Sen. William "Mo" Cowan said he's done a lot of "cool things" since being appointed to fill the seat left vacant when John F. Kerry became U.S. secretary of state, including meeting top political leaders on a tour of the Middle East and flying, with the president, aboard Air Force One.
Biden vote could be necessary to break filibuster
The death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg makes the margin of error in Harry Reid's whipping for filibuster reform that much tighter, and it means that Reid might require the vote of Vice President Joe Biden to make it happen.
The United States House of Representa...
Rep. John Dingell Jr. has served more than 21,000 days in Congress.
"If John has taught us anything, it's that a legacy is not something you can just conjure up or acquire," Speaker Boehner said.
As the summer rolls by, news headlines are filled with the who's who of potential presidential candidates.
"Grand bargains" are a waste of time
Paul Krugman makes a point this morning that I've been making around here a lot lately: even if you still long for a balanced , sustainable budget deal-what folks around here call a "grand bargain"-you really have to ask yourself if the current cast of Congressional characters are the right folks to broker that deal.
Independents key to hotly contested Massachusetts Senate race
In the waning days of the Massachusetts special Senate election campaign, Republicans are searching for signs of an upset while Democrats are cautioning against complacency.
Obama meets with relatives of Newtown victims President Barack Obama...
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday with relatives of the victims of the Connecticut school shooting, who were visiting Washington on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the tragedy to push anew for gun control.
Sandie Timm of Menlo Park sent us this photo of Vice President Joe Biden with her son Ben, 7, at the Harvest furniture store at 639 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park on Saturday, June 15. Mr. Biden was in San Francisco Friday night for a fundraiser and then on the Peninsula for his niece's graduation from Stanford.
The United States will supply Syrian rebels with weapons through a CIA-run program, FoxNews confirmed Saturday.
Tea Party lands punch in IRS scandal
The administration has the major media in its corner, while the Tea Party has talk radio and Fox News in its corner.
Todd J. Gillman: Texas' Sen. John Cornyn wielding clout on immigration bill
Sen. John Cornyn has all but hijacked the immigration debate. And Sen. Ted Cruz has become a sort of circus master in the Senate, to hear Vice President Joe Biden tell it.
Biden Railed Against Bush Surveillance in 2006
Vice President Joe Biden hasn't exactly been forthcoming with his thoughts about the National Security Agency's collection of millions of phone records, but that wasn't the case in 2006, when he railed against the practice.
VP Joe Biden drops by Sunnyvale Hobee's with Rep. Mike Honda
Vice President Joe Biden made a campaign-style appearance in Silicon Valley on Saturday with U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, dropping by a local Hobee's restaurant to work the crowd on behalf of the veteran Democratic congressman, who is facing an unusually strong primary election challenge next year.