Who is joe Biden?
A: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and
current president of the United States.
He is a member of what party?
A: The Democratic Party.
When did he serve as the 47th vice president?
A: From 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama.
Who did he represent in the United States Senate from
1973 to 2009?
A: Delaware.
Where was Biden was born and raised?
A: In Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He and is family moved to New Castle County, Delaware,
in what year?
A: 1953 when he was ten.
He studied at the University of Delaware before earning
his law degree from where?
A: Syracuse University in 1968.
In 1970 he was elected to what?
A: The New Castle County Council.
At age 29 he became the what?
A: The sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history.
Biden was the chair or ranking member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee for how long?
A: 12 years.
What committee did he also chair from 1987 to 1995?
A: The Senate Judiciary Committee.
He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential
nomination in what years?
A: 1988 and 2008.
Biden was reelected to the Senate how many times?
A: Six times.
He was the fourth-most senior sitting senator at the
time when he became what?
A: Obama's vice president after they won the 2008 presidential
election.
Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012, defeating whom?
A: Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan.
He oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to
counteract what?
A: The Great Recession.
On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the
president and took a leading role in designing what?
A: The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011.
In 2017, Obama awarded Biden what?
A: The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.
Who did Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeat
in the 2020 presidential election?
A: Incumbent president Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the
2020 presidential election.
He is the oldest president and the first to have a
what?
A: A female vice president.
Biden proposed, lobbied for and signed into law the
American Rescue Plan Act to help the United States recover from what?
A: The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant recession.
He proposed the American Jobs Plan, aspects of which
were incorporated into what?
A: The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was also
signed into law.
Who did he nominate to the Supreme Court?
A: Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Biden proposed an expansion of the social safety net,
but those efforts, along with voting rights legislation, failed to what?
A: Pass the Senate.
In foreign policy, Biden restored the U.S. into the
Paris Agreement on what?
A: Climate change.
He completed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from where?
A: Afghanistan.
He responded to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by
doing what?
A: Imposing sanctions on Russia, as well as authorizing billions in foreign
aid and weapons shipments to Ukraine.