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Biden_080818.appHeader = "fact file|JOE BIDEN";
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Biden_080818[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>&#149; Name: Joseph R. Biden<br>&#149; Born: Nov. 20, 1942, Scranton, Pa.<br>&#149; Education: University of Delaware, history and political science; Syracuse University College of Law<br>&#149; Religion: Roman Catholic<br>&#149; Occupation: U.S. Senator from Delaware since 1973";

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Biden_080818[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>&#149; Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995 and is still blamed by some Democrats for allowing the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the high court in 1991.<br>&#149; Biden wrote the landmark Biden Crime Law, which provided $30.2 billion to hire 50,000 police nationwide.<br>&#149; Biden created the nation's \"Drug Czar\" for drug control policy<br>&#149; Biden chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2001 to 2003 and resumed chairmanship in 2007.  <br>&#149; Biden wrote in 2000 the Violence Against Women Act, a landmark domestic violence law.<br>";

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Biden_080818[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>&#149; Dec. 18, 1972: Biden's wife, Neilia, and 13-month old daughter, Amy, were killed in a car crash with a drunken driver.  The couple's two sons, Hunter and Beau, were seriously injured.  Having recently won his U.S. Senate seat, Biden was sworn into office at his sons' hospital bedside.<br>&#149;  1988: Biden suffered brain aneurysms and nearly died.";

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Biden_080818[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>&#149; Biden ran for president in 1988, but was forced to exit the race after being caught having borrowed portions of a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock -- without giving him credit.<br>&#149; In 2006, Biden said: \"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.  I'm not joking.\"";

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Biden_080818[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>&#149;  Voted to authorize President Bush to use military force in Iraq.  <br>&#149; Voted against the Bush tax cuts<br>&#149; Voted against Republican Supreme Court nominees William Rehnquist, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito<br>&#149; Biden advocated in 1975 for a measure to ban the use of busing for school integration.  He argued that busing was counter-productive ";

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