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Obama advisers say there is still plenty of time to create a bill that can attract more Republican support. "I think you will see it get better," Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House...
...undermining the war effort. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer recently wrote in the Washington Post that "the problem in Afghanistan is not too much Taliban; it's too little good governance" and warned bluntly that the alliance expects Karzai to do a better job. Vice President Joe Biden visited Kabul shortly before the Inauguration and reportedly warned Karzai that the new Administration would hold his feet to the fire over governance complaints. (See pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan...
...member of the Obama-Biden transition team, helped negotiate the terms on which former President Bill Clinton agreed to disclose the names of 200,000 donors to his charitable foundation in order to clear the way for Hillary's nomination as Secretary of State...
...Biden, Jill • job offer to husband of is revealed...
...Vice-President Biden stood to his right, apparently unsure if he or Lisa Brown, the staff secretary, should pick up the documents as Obama finished. Biden handled a couple, and then decided he'd better not. "Why don't you take the last one," he told Brown, with a smile. A few moments later, Biden was caught by surprise when Obama asked him to swear in the senior staff. "Am I doing this again?" he asked, confused, having just sworn in the members of the cabinet in a private ceremony. (See Who's Who in Barack Obama's White House...