Vice President Biden's Mother, Jean, Dies at 92 Joe Biden Jr. was first elected to the Senate in 1972, shortly before his 30th birthday. His mother helped out by organizing coffee klatches -- part of a family effort that also included Biden's father, sister and brothers.''Those of you who have met my mom, you know she's fairly politically astute, and she still runs the show,'' the vice president quipped shortly after she fell last year.''You think I'm joking? I'm not,'' he said.The former Catherine Eugenia Finnegan was born July 7, 1917, in Scranton, Pa. In 1941, she married businessman Joseph Biden Sr., with whom she had four children. The couple moved from Scranton to Claymont, Del., in 1953, when their eldest son,... VP Biden makes a case for train travel Vice President Joe Biden, who commuted on the Amtrak line between Delaware and Washington during his long years in the Senate, is making a case for train ... Biden's rise and Dodd's fall At the outset of the fight for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd seemed like interchangeable candidates. ... War Room It reached the point where Joe Biden said of Giuliani, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11," and the Onion ran ... 'For You, I Am Trilling These Songs,' by Kathleen Rooney ... from a professor who prefers flawed original prose to stolen work; this piece should be required reading for any new college student -- and Joe Biden. ... Obama, Biden, top advisors to meet regarding Detroit terror attack President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden will meet with senior advisors Tuesday to review an attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 ... Biden Kicks Off Broadband Stimulus Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $183 million of an eventual $7.2 billion in government stimulus spending on ... VP Biden Is Sounding Like a Used Car Salesman So there's Joe Biden, saying, "Say it ain't so. It can't be so." But it is so. And for the 60 salesman senators who vote with the Democratic Caucus ...

Why did she call him just "Joe?" Because Palin kept calling him "O'Biden" Joe Biden if she could just call him "Joe?" Well, there was a reason for that, and Turns out that Palin kept stumbling over Biden's name, referring to him ...

On the Front Lines of the Unemployment Struggle I guess that there will be no victory lap today, and they can keep Joe Biden off television because the jobs report was something of a disappointment. Momentum was completely derailed (as it turns out November was revised to a net gain of 4,000 jobs, and I bet the Labor Secretary makes that a focal point as she makes the interview rounds), and we are reminded how hard it is to create jobs in an environment where money doesn't flow into the system.Massive deficit spending, debt monetization and 0% interest rates go a long way toward making businesses and banks whole but it hasn't done anything to generate demand. That's because all these moves have done nothing for Main Street.