Joe Biden News

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.

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."

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 .

Weeks after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., last December, President Barack Obama issued 23 directives aimed at curbing the threat of gun violence.

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.

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.

The civil libertarian Left and much of the public have reversed positions on phone monitoring since George W. Bush was president.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

The administration has the major media in its corner, while the Tea Party has talk radio and Fox News in its corner.

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.

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.

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.