On Board: The Vice President and Second Lady in Egypt

Published June 7, 2010 at 2:48 p.m.
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The Vice President and Dr. Biden were in Sharm el-Sheikh today on the first leg of their week-long trip to Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. Watch this video to hear directly from the Vice President and Second Lady on their meetings today with President and Mrs. Mubarak. Check back this week for more "On Board" updates from the Vice President's trip ... Click here to see the video ... Vice President Joe Biden meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, ... Vice President

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On Board with the VP: Day 2 in Kenya

Published June 8, 2010 at 3:27 p.m.
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Vice President Joe Biden walks with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga during a visit to the State House in Nairobi, Kenya ... The Vice President was in Kenya today at a pivotal moment--just weeks before a major constitutional referendum. Earlier this morning he met jointly with Kenya's President and Prime Minister to encourage their active support for reform (Watch their statement to the press after the meeting here). He also stopped by Kenya's Parliament to meet privately

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Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to University Students in Nairobi, Kenya

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Published June 9, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.

Kenyatta International Conference Center ... Nairobi, Kenya ... 10:58 A.M. (local) ... VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Hello, my name is Joe Biden.  I work for Barack Obama.  (Laughter and applause.) ... Now, I know no one in Kenya is familiar with Barack Obama, but I can tell you although for years as a United States senator, I had -- I was on a committee called the Foreign Relations Committee, the chairman, and did a lot of work relating to Africa, I hear about Kenya all the time from Barack

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Vice President Biden in Spain and Belgium

Published May 11, 2010 at 1:21 p.m.

Pictures from Vice President Joe Biden's trip to Spain and Belgium ...

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PHOTO RELEASE: Vice President Biden Calls Navistar Electric Truck Team to Congratulate Them on Shipping First Recovery Act Electric Vehicle

Published May 13, 2010 at 3:09 p.m.

Washington, DC – Vice President Joe Biden today called Shane Terblanche, General Manager of the Navistar Modec Electric Vehicle Alliance at Navistar International Corporation, and the rest of the Indiana-based Navistar electric truck team to congratulate them on shipping the first electric vehicle produced as a result of the $2.4 billion in Recovery Act advanced battery and electric drive grant awards made last year.  President Obama announced the more than forty awards, including $39.2

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First Recovery Act Electric Vehicle Delivered Today

Published May 13, 2010 at 3:04 p.m.
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For months now, a team at an Indiana plant has been hard at work preparing to manufacture electric delivery trucks that are entirely powered by plug-in power.  They’ve been installing equipment, retrofitting an old manufacturing facility, assembling parts, testing the new technology – and today they became the very first Recovery Act recipient to deliver an electric vehicle with the advanced battery and electric drive grants the President announced last year as they unveiled their new truck

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Elena Kagan: What They're Saying

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Published May 10, 2010 at 4:09 p.m.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden applaud as Solicitor General Elena Kagan moves to the podium after the President announced her as his choice for Supreme Court Justice during an event in the East Room of the White House, ... Here's a run-down of the reaction so far to the President's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court ... News Coverage ... ABC News: Kagan “Is Considered One of the Finest Legal Scholars in the Country ... “Kagan, 50, is

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Nominating Kagan: "Her Passion for the Law is Anything But Academic"

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Published May 10, 2010 at 11:12 a.m.
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Click here to see the video ... In noting that Solicitor General Elena Kagan would have legendary shoes to fill at the Supreme Court when confirmed, the President described the career of Justice John Paul Stevens: ... For nearly 35 years, Justice Stevens has stood as an impartial guardian of the law, faithfully applying the core values of our founding to the cases and controversies of our time.    ... He has done so with restraint and respect for precedent -- understanding that a judge’s

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Advancing Europe's Security

Published May 5, 2010 at 11:42 a.m.

Ed. Note: In advance of his trip to Spain and Belgium this week, the following op-ed by Vice President Joe Biden has been posted on-line by the International Herald Tribune today and will be published in the newspaper tomorrow, May 6, 2010: ... This week I will sit down with NATO ambassadors to advance the ongoing dialogue among the United States and its closest allies on the future of European security. I do so because the United States is firmly committed to the view that any decisions about

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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin

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Published May 6, 2010 at 4:40 p.m.

See below for an answer to a question(marked with an asterisk) posed in the briefing that required follow up ... *On May 4, the Vice President chaired his monthly Cabinet-level meeting on Iraq.  Ambassador Hill and General Odierno briefed Principals on political and security developments via secure video teleconference and the Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security discussed Rule of Law programs in Iraq.  Participants included Defense Secretary Gates, Homeland Security Secretary

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