Would someone tell me anything Biden has done that is significant?

[Gun Smoke]

You don't know what you want.

You don't know what a list of accomplishments are.

[clintonhater]

Helping to pervert & degrade the meaning of "marriage"--that's an accomplishment! 5000+ yrs of human history invalidated, so Sodomites can obtain an official state license to Sodomize.

[Vern Humphrey]

Helping to pervert & degrade the meaning of "marriage"--that's an accomplishment! 5000+ yrs of human history invalidated, so Sodomites can obtain an official state license to Sodomize.

Don't exaggerate. Under a Biden-Harris administration, you won't be required to have a homosexual marriage -- if you have a note from your doctor.

[rayg]

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Biden Accomplishments

And all of which cost the tax payers plenty...

[Vern Humphrey]

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Biden Accomplishments

And all of which cost the tax payers plenty...

Which brings me to the question, who paid for those hair transplants? I'll bet it was the taxpayer -- but at least the job went to the lowest bidder.

[S.A. Boggs]

Biden Accomplishments

Actions

Race relations/civil rights
● Joe played a leading role in blocking then-Alabama U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions from a federal judgeship over racism allegations.

Women’s Issues
Representation
● In 1993, Joe selected two women senators, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), to break the all-male stronghold on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Violence against women
● In 2004 and 2005, Joe enlisted major American technology companies in diagnosing the problems of the Austin, Texas-based National Domestic Violence Hotline, and to donate equipment and expertise to it in a successful effort to improve its services.

● Joe established the first ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women during the Obama-Biden administration.

● Joe launched a national campaign to change the culture surrounding campus rape and sexual assault.

● As Vice President, Joe launched the 1is2many initiative which uses technology and outreach to get the message out and to help reduce dating violence and sexual assault among students, teens and young adults.


Economy
● President Obama turned to Joe to first help pass and then oversee the implementation of the Recovery Act.
● Joe oversaw the implementation of the Recovery Act all with less than 1% in waste, abuse or fraud—the most efficient government program in our country’s history.

Environment
● Joe called for action to address climate change and protect the environment before it was a mainstream issue, introducing the Global Climate Protection Act.
● As Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Joe organized several hearings on climate change and rallied support on a number of non-binding resolutions on the issue..

Supreme Court
● As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Joe led the opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork, a conservative legal scholar and federal judge.

Gay marriage
● Joe is hailed as an early supporter of gay marriage.
● Joes’ voicing of support for same-sex marriage on Meet the Press in 2012 made him the highest-ranking government official at the time to endorse same-sex marriage.
● Joe expressed early support for the Equality Act.

Foreign Policy
● Joe blasted Secretary of State George P. Shultz at a Senate hearing because of the administration's support of South African leadership’s continued practice of apartheid.

● When the Bosnian War broke out, Joe was among the first to call for the "lift and strike" policy of lifting the arms embargo, training Bosnian Muslims and supporting them with NATO air strikes, and investigating war crimes.
● Joe pushed a reluctant Clinton administration first to arm Serbian Muslims and then to use U.S. air power to suppress conflict in Serbia and Kosovo.
● Biden has called his role in affecting Balkans policy in the mid-1990s his "proudest moment in public life" related to foreign policy.

● In March 2004, Joe secured the brief release of Libyan democracy activist and political prisoner Fathi Eljahmi.

● Joe’s January 2010 visit to Iraq in the midst of turmoil over banned candidates from the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary election resulted in 59 of the several hundred candidates being reinstated by the Iraqi government two days later.

● As vice president, Joe oversaw the 2011 withdrawal of the remaining 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and then the return of U.S. forces to fight the Islamic State in 2014.

Miscellaneous
● As a member of the New Castle County Council, Joe fought against a massive 10-lane highway project that threatened to pave over Wilmington’s neighborhoods and pushed back on the oil companies building refineries on the Delaware coast.



Legislation

Affordable Care Act
● President Obama and Joe secured the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
● In passing the Affordable Care Act, Joe was instrumental in locking down wavering Democratic senators who threatened to sink the entire enterprise.
● Joe played a pivotal role in convincing Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to switch parties, without which Democrats would not have had the 60 votes they needed to overcome a filibuster and pass legislation.
● Joe paid particular attention to whether the final product of the Affordable Care Act would provide enough assistance to middle-class Americans.
● Joe fought for bigger subsidies in the Affordable Care Act, despite resistance to a larger bill by more conservative Democrats.

Economy
● Joe was instrumental in winning over three Republicans in passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

● Joe’s advocacy for a middle ground, negotiations with Mitch McConnell, and persuasion of Democrats in congress were instrumental in passing the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.

● Joe played a central role in the negotiations that secured the Budget Control Act of 2011, bringing to a conclusion the 2011 US debt-ceiling crisis.

● Joe’s negotiations with Mitch McConnell secured the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which focused on averting the impending fiscal cliff and raised tax rates on upper income levels.

Women’s Issues
Health
● Joe passed a joint resolution to designate October 19, 1993, as “National Mammography Day.”
● In 1993, after four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Jill Biden started the Biden Breast Health Initiative in Delaware to educate high school girls about the importance of breast health and early detection.
● Working with President Obama to pass the Affordable Care Act, Joe helped ensure that 47 million women with insurance would have access to preventive services like mammograms at no extra cost.

Domestic Abuse
● Joe wrote and championed the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
● The Violence Against Women Act was a landmark piece of legislation that changed the way our country responded to domestic violence and sexual assault.
● VAWA provided $1.6 billion to investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed victims to sue their attackers in civil court even if prosecutors didn’t proceed criminally.
● VAWA changed law enforcement practices, improved the criminal justice system, and created a network of services for victims.
● VAWA established new federal crimes of interstate domestic violence and stalking, doubled penalties for repeat sex offenders, and sparked the passage of laws at the state level to protect victims.
● Since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994, rates of domestic violence have decreased by over 50%.
● Joe created the National Domestic Violence Hotline in the Violence Against Women Act in 1994.

Gun Control
● Joe led the way to pass the Brady Bill in 1993, establishing the background check system that has kept guns out of the hands of millions of dangerous individuals.
● In 1994, Joe authored the bill banning weapons of war — assault weapons and high capacity magazines — for a decade.

Education
● Joe’s Kids 2000 legislation, signed into law by the president in October 2000, established a public-private partnership that authorized $120 million over six years to provide computer centers, teachers, Internet access, and technical training to young people, particularly low-income and at-risk youth.

Immigration
● As Vice President, Joe secured bipartisan support for a $750 million aid package to help Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras implement critical, concrete reforms and reduce migration.

Veterans
● Joe was the primary sponsor of S. 1184, a bill enacted to waive the passport fees for a relative of a deceased member of the Armed Forces travelling abroad to visit their relative’s grave or attend their funeral or memorial service.
Foreign policy
● In 1997, Senator Biden led the successful effort in the Senate to approve ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
● In 1998, Congressional Quarterly named Biden one of "Twelve Who Made A Difference" for playing a lead role in several foreign policy matters including NATO enlargement and the successful passage of bills to streamline our foreign affairs agencies and punish religious persecution overseas.
● In September 2007, the Biden Plan, a nonbinding resolution which proposed dividing Iraq into three autonomous nations (split among the three predominant ethnic groups in the region), passed in the Senate by a vote of 75 to 23.
● Joe was the primary sponsor of the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008, enacted to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
● As vice president, Joe led the successful administration effort to gain Senate approval for the New START treaty, bringing deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the two countries to the lowest level in history.

Miscellaneous
● Joe was the primary sponsor of a joint resolution to designate March 10, 1990, as “Harriet Tubman Day”, enacted in 1990.
● Joe was the primary sponsor of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. This bill was enacted to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.
● Joe was the primary sponsor of the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act of 2008, which established an awards mechanism to honor exceptional acts of bravery in the line of duty by Federal, State, and Local law enforcement officers.
● Joe was the primary sponsor of the Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007, enacted to provide nationwide subpoena authority for actions brought under the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.















Unedited List of Actions/Legislation/Accomplishments

Enacted Legislation
Biden was the primary sponsor of 42 bills that were enacted.

● S. 3370 (110th): Libyan Claims Resolution Act
● S. 1060 (110th): Recidivism Reduction and Second Chance Act of 2007 A bill to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, and for other purposes.
● S. 1552 (102nd): White Clay Creek Study Act A bill to designate segments and tributaries of White Clay Creek, Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


Miscellaneous
● Joe first calls for the public financing of campaigns in the early 1970s. In the decades to come, he’ll continue to take action to restore and strengthen our democratic institutions, starting with protecting the right to vote.
● Joe leads a delegation of senators to meet with Kremlin officials in Moscow to present U.S. conditions for the ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks–SALT II. It is the beginning of his decades-long leadership on nuclear arms control and strategic security negotiations to keep the American people safe, prevent an unchecked nuclear arms race, and establish norms of international conduct.
● As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, Senator Biden plays a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. He is at the forefront of issues and legislation related to ending Apartheid, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
● Biden was responsible for many developments in the United States. Some of them are Obama care, revitalized manufacturing, accountable for making college affordable for all communities, marriage equality, and the Violence Against Women Act.
● scaling back the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Wonder what Biden was "paid" by the females that he "helped" as Biden does not do something for nothing. Apparently the casting couch was in Biden's office.
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

Wonder what Biden was "paid" by the females that he "helped" as Biden does not do something for nothing. Apparently the casting couch was in Biden's office.
Sam

Skidmarks on Skunk used a lot of band with to say "nothing."

[Roadkingtrax]

Poor Vern, your two votes won't be enough.