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Colorado
Colorado (
i/kɒləˈrædoʊ/ or /kɒləˈrɒdoʊ/) is the US state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,116,796 on July 1, 2011, an increase of +1.74% since the 2010 United States Census.
The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the Río Colorado for the red colored (Spanish: colorado) silt the river carried from the mountains. On August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado as the 38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it was admitted to the Union in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Denver
Denver (
/ˈdɛnvər/) (Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe' ) is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado. As Denver County, it is the second most populous county in Colorado after El Paso County, which surpassed Denver County as of the 2010 Census. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (1.6 km) or 5,280 feet (1,609.344 m) above sea level, which is defined by the elevation of the spot of a benchmark on the steps of the State Capital building. The elevation of the entire city ranges from 5,130 to 5,680 feet. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich passes through Union Station and is the temporal reference for the Mountain Time Zone.
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Indiana
Indiana (i/ɪndiˈænə/) is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 15th most populous of the 50 United States. Indiana is the least extensive state in the continental US west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis, the second largest of any state capital and largest state capital east of the Mississippi River.
Before it became a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Angel Mounds State Historic Site, one of the best preserved ancient earthwork mound sites in the United States, can be found in Southwestern Indiana near Evansville. Residents of Indiana are known as Hoosiers. The etymology of the word is disputed, but the leading theory as advanced by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Historical Society has "Hoosier" originating from the upland South region of the U.S. as a derogatory slang term for a rough countryman, a country bumpkin.
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Iran
Coordinates: 32°N 53°E / 32°N 53°E / 32; 53
Iran (i/ɪˈrɑːn/ or /aɪˈræn/;Persian: ایران [ʔiˈɾɒn] (
listen)), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān), is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran", which in Persian means "Land of the Aryans", has been in use natively since the Sassanian era. It came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia ( /ˈpɜrʒə/ or /ˈpɜrʃə/). Both "Persia" and "Iran" are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, "Iran" is the name used officially in political contexts.
The 18th-largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), Iran has a population of around 79 million. It is a country of particular geopolitical significance owing to its location in the Middle East and central Eurasia. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct neighbors to the north. Iran is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by Iraq and on the northwest by Turkey. Tehran is the capital, the country's largest city and the political, cultural, commercial and industrial center of the nation. Iran is a regional power, and holds an important position in international energy security and world economy as a result of its large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Iran has the second largest proven natural gas reserves in the world and the fourth largest proven petroleum reserves.
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Iraq
Iraq (/ɪˈræk/ or
i/ɪˈrɑːk/; Arabic: العراق al-‘Irāq); officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: 
جمهورية العراق (help·info) Jumhūriyyat al-‘Irāq), is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.
Iraq borders Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Jordan to the southwest and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south. Iraq has a narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km (36 mi) on the northern Persian Gulf. The capital city, Baghdad is in the center-east of the country.
Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run through the center of Iraq, flowing from northwest to southeast. These provide Iraq with agriculturally capable land and contrast with the steppe and desert landscape that covers most of Western Asia.
Historically, Iraq was the center of the Abbasid Arabic Islamic Empire. Iraq has been known to the west by the Greek toponym 'Mesopotamia' (Land between the rivers) and has been home to continuous successive civilizations since the 6th millennium BC. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is often referred to as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing, law and the wheel. At different periods in its history, Iraq was the center of the indigenous Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Abbasid empires. It was also part of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires, and under British control as a League of Nations mandate.
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Israel
Coordinates: 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35
Israel, officially the State of Israel ( /ˈɪzriːəl/ or /ˈɪzreɪəl/; Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Medīnat Yisrā'el, IPA: [me̞diˈnät jisʁäˈʔe̞l] ( listen); Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrāʼīl, IPA: [dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl]), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is defined as a Jewish and Democratic State in its Basic Laws and is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
Following the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption and implementation of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine. Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Portions of these territories, including east Jerusalem, have been annexed by Israel, but the border with the neighboring West Bank has not yet been permanently defined.[neutrality is disputed] Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in peace.
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Leland Yee
Leland Yee (Chinese: 余胤良; pinyin: Yú Yìnliáng, born November 20, 1948) is a California State Senator in District 8 which represents the western half of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County. Prior to becoming state senator, Yee was a California State Assemblyman, Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District, and was a member and President of the San Francisco School Board. In 2004 Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore, making him the second highest ranking Democrat of the California State Assembly.
Leland Yee immigrated to San Francisco from Taishan,Guangdong, China when he was three years old and later became a naturalized United States citizen. His father served in the U.S. Army and the Merchant Marines. Yee attended San Francisco's Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School and earned a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, a master's from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Child Psychology from the University of Hawaii.
After obtaining his PhD in Child Psychology, Yee worked as a therapist in the Mental Health Department of San Francisco, the Oakland School District and with Asian American for Community Involvement, a non-profit that serves low-income people.
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North Korea
Coordinates: 40°00′N 127°00′E / 40°N 127°E / 40; 127 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국), commonly referred to as "North Korea" ( listen), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok, or Yalu, and the Tumen rivers form the border between North Korea and China. A section of the Tumen River in the far northeast is the border with Russia.
The peninsula was governed by the Korean Empire until it was annexed by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in 1910. It was divided into Soviet- and American-occupied zones in 1945, after the end of World War II. North Korea refused to participate in a United Nations–supervised election held in the south in 1948, which led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones. North and South Korea each claimed sovereignty over the whole Korean Peninsula, which led to the Korean War of 1950. The Armistice Agreement of 1953 ended the fighting; but the two countries are officially still at war against each other, for a peace treaty was never signed. Both states were accepted into the United Nations in 1991.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Adam Housley
Adam Housley (born Arthur Adam Housley on August 13, 1971, in Napa, California) joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2001 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent.
Most recently Housley was one of the first American reporters on scene in Japan to cover the devastation following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. He and his crew at one point got within 70 miles of the reactors filing live streaming reports for Fox News before the nuclear threat forced them to return to Tokyo. His coverage was mentioned several outlets including The Los Angeles Times, Mediabistro and also in his hometown paper the Napa Register.
Housley also covered the 2010 Copiapó mining accident for Fox. He was on site and reporting on October 12 and 13, 2010, as each of the 33 miners, trapped for 69 days, was brought to the surface one at a time in a rescue capsule. His fluency in Spanish was acknowledged by other media including the New York Times and the Hereford Brand.
Overall he has reported in eight Latin American countries including Nicaragua, Venezuela and El Salvador reporting on the war against drugs and scoring an exclusive interview with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
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Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt is an American correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She provides live news cut-ins at night Monday through Wednesday. Earhardt also reports for FOX's Hannity with her own segment called "Ainsley Across America". Since being at FOX, she has co-hosted Fox and Friends and has been a panelist on The Live Desk. As of March 5, 2012, she co-hosts Fox & Friends First with Anna Kooiman at 5 a.m. Eastern Time.
Earhardt grew up in South Carolina, graduating from Spring Valley High School (1995) in Columbia, South Carolina. She attended Florida State University on a leadership and academic scholarship, majoring in biology. Earhardt served the student body as a senator in student government. She then transferred to the University of South Carolina after deciding to pursue a degree in journalism. Earhardt has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. While in college, she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
Earhardt graduated as a top student in her program and was hired to work as a reporter for WLTX-News 19, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina before she graduated from USC. From 2000 to 2004. She worked as the morning and noon anchor (both rated #1). Earhardt traveled to New York City to cover South Carolina middle school students donating nearly half a million dollars to firefighters after the September 11 attacks. The money was raised to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site.
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Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and won the popular vote in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
Gore is currently an author and environmental activist. He has founded a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alliance for Climate Protection, and has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism.
Gore was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985–93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court has determined the outcome of a presidential election.
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Alan Colmes
Alan Samuel Colmes (born September 24, 1950) is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel.
In addition to broadcasting, Colmes runs the Liberaland blog and contributes to AOL News. He wrote Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong (2003).
Alan Colmes was born in New York City. He attended local public schools and went to Hofstra University, where he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from its School of Communications. While at Hofstra, he worked at its radio station WRHU.
Colmes began his career in stand-up comedy. He developed his radio career in the Northeast, eventually working at stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston.
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Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe.
He ran for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1988, 1992, and 2004. Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan, and served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987; in his capacities as a UN ambassador, among Keyes's accomplishments was contributing to the Mexico City Policy.
Keyes also hosted a radio talk show, The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call, and a television commentary show on the MSNBC cable network, Alan Keyes Is Making Sense.
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Albert Smith White
Albert Smith White (October 24, 1803 – September 4, 1864) was a U.S. Senator and Representative from the state of Indiana.
White was born in Orange County, New York. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1822, after which he studied law; he entered practice as a lawyer in 1825. After a time he moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where he worked as the assistant clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1831–32, moving up to the full clerkship in 1832-35. He also ran for the House in 1832, but was defeated.
1836 proved a more successful year for White; he served as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket, and was himself elected as a Whig to the 25th Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839). After a single term in the House, White ran for the Senate in the 1838 election.
White won election to the Senate, where he served as chairman of two committees: the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses, and the Committee on Indian Affairs. White declined to stand for reelection.
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Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th, and the first Hispanic United States Attorney General, appointed in February of 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic in government to date. Prior to his elevation, he was the first Hispanic White House General Counsel, and earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during his governorship of Texas. In Texas Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice. Gonzales's tenure as US Attorney General was marked by several conflicts with Congress. Following bipartisan calls for his removal, Gonzales resigned from the office without explanation. Democrats were particularly opposed to Gonzales for his role in the firing of several US District Attorneys which they believe had politicized his office.
Alberto Gonzales was born to a Catholic family in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Humble, a town outside of Houston. Of Mexican descent, he was the second of eight children born to Pablo and Maria Gonzales. His father, who died in 1982, was a migrant worker and then a construction worker with a second grade education. His mother worked at home raising eight children and had a sixth grade education. Gonzales and his family of ten lived in a small, two-bedroom home built by his father and uncles with no telephone and no hot running water. According to Gonzales, he is unaware whether immigration documentation exists for three of his grandparents who were born in Mexico and who, like Gonzales and his family, were poor and uneducated and thus they may have entered and resided in the United States illegally from Mexico or they may have entered and resided legally.
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Alisyn Camerota
Alisyn Camerota (born June 21, 1966) is an American television news anchor for Fox News Channel.
Based in New York, Camerota co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend along with Clayton Morris and Dave Briggs. She previously was a co-host on "Fox & Friends First" weekdays from 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m. In October 2007, Camerota started her own blog on the Fox and Friends called, "In The Greenroom." In November 2007, Fox and Friends began an Internet-only segment called, "The After the Show Show." The segment features "Fox and Friends" anchors of Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson, sometimes along with earlier guests or crew members from the cable show and a toy monkey at the end of the Internet segment. This is done live after the main show has finished while, "America's Newsroom," is shown on the cable channel. These videos are available later on the Fox and Friends page on Fox News Channel's web site. Prior to her maternity leave, she was a co-host of the weekend edition of the same program, in addition to regularly appearing on the Friday edition of Fox & Friends 1st.
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Alvin Peterson Hovey
Alvin Peterson Hovey (September 6, 1821 – November 23, 1891) was a Union general during the American Civil War, an Indiana Supreme Court justice, congressman, and the 21st Governor of Indiana from 1889 to 1891. During the war he played an important role in several battles and uncovered a secret plot for an uprising in Indiana. As governor, he launched several legal challenges to the Indiana General Assembly's removal of his powers, but was mostly unsuccessful. He successfully advocated election reform before he died in office.
Alvin Peterson Hovey was born in Mount Vernon, Indiana on September 6, 1821 to Abiel and Francis Hovey. His mother died while he was a young boy, and his father died when he was fifteen leaving him orphaned. His youth was spent in poverty, and after being sent to an orphanage following his father's death, he received a basic education before being turned out at age eighteen. Hovey wanted to become a lawyer, and went work as a bricklayer by day, and studied law at night in the office of John Pitcher, a Mount Vernon attorney in 1840. After over three years of study in the office, he was admitted to bar in 1843 and opened his own law office.
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Alyson Kennedy
Alyson Kennedy is an American politician, a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and was the party's candidate for vice president in the 2008 United States presidential election. The ticket campaigned for young voters especially. At the head of the ticket were two different candidates, Roger Calero and James Harris; Harris was an alternate in some states because Calero was Constitutionally ineligible because he is a lawful permanent resident of the United States (holding a green card), and not a US Citizen. They were the first pair to qualify for the ballot in Louisiana Calero/Kennedy won 5,127 votes and Harris/Kennedy 2,424.
Originally from Indianapolis, Kennedy joined the socialist movement in 1973 in Louisville, Kentucky. She has worked in coal mines in Alabama, Colorado, Utah, and West Virginia. In 1977 she ran as the SWP candidate for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio against incumbent Republican Ralph Perk, garnering 1,225 votes and losing by a wide margin to Dennis Kucinich. She first joined the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in 1981, and was one of the leaders of a strike in Utah 2004, also being involved in litigation. In 2000, she ran for United States Senate as a certified write-in candidate in a race prompted by the death of candidate and former Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan. Kennedy is currently employed as a garment worker.
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Amy Kellogg
Amy Kellogg is a news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She has been with the network since 1999 and is based out of the network's London news bureau.
Kellogg received her B.A. from Brown University in Soviet studies, and her M.A. from Stanford University in Russian and East European studies. Kellogg is fluent in Russian, Spanish, and French. She spent the second semester of her junior year at Leningrad State University, in the former Soviet Union. After graduating from Stanford, she spent some time teaching English and studying Spanish in Argentina before shifting into the news business.
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Andrea Tantaros
Andrea K. Tantaros ( Greek: Ανδρέα Κ. Τάνταρος, born December 30, 1978) is an American political analyst and commentator, who is currently one of several rotating co-hosts on The Five on Fox News Channel at 5 pm EST. Tantaros also appears regularly on the Fox Business Channel, and she writes a weekly (Thursday) column for the New York Daily News newspaper and Newsmax magazine.
Andrea K. Tantaros was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1978 to an immigrant Greek family. As a teenager, she worked as a waitress in her family's restaurant.
A 1997 graduate of Parkland High School, Tantaros then attended Lehigh University (2001 graduate), where she majored in Journalism and French, as well as wrote political commentary for Lehigh's college newspaper. Tantaros pursued post-undergraduate studies at The Université de Paris in France. She is proficient in Spanish, French and Greek. Tantaros lives in New York City.
Tantaros lived in the Washington, D.C. area from 2003-2005. She worked on Capitol Hill, where she served as Press Secretary to Republican Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has worked on political campaigns for former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, District Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas Reynolds. During her time with House Leadership, Tantaros was responsible for helping craft and execute the media strategy for the Republican majority. Tantaros also worked at CNN's Crossfire, for former Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin, and as Deputy Press Secretary to then Congressman, and now Senator, Pat Toomey.
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Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Paolo Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge. He is a political and senior judicial analyst for Fox News Channel, commenting on legal news and trials. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998.
Napolitano was born in Newark, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Princeton University (he was a founding member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton) and Notre Dame Law School. Napolitano sat on the New Jersey bench from 1987 to 1995, becoming the state's youngest then-sitting Superior Court judge. He also served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law for 11 years. Napolitano resigned his judgeship in 1995 to pursue his writing and television career.
Prior to joining Fox as a news analyst, Napolitano was the presiding judge on the television show, Power of Attorney, in which people brought small-claims disputes to a televised courtroom. Differing from similar formats, the plaintiffs and defendants were represented "pro bono" by famous attorneys. The show ran in syndication during the 2000–2001 season.
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Anita Vogel
Anita Vogel (born November 24, 1969, California) is an American news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She has been with the network since 2001 and is based in Los Angeles. Previously she was a reporter for WTLV in Jacksonville. Vogel also worked for WJET in Erie, PA, and KCRA in Sacramento. She began her career in Washington, DC working for ABC Network News. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California with degrees in broadcast journalism and political science.
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Ann Coulter
Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American lawyer,conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public events and private events. Well-known for her conservative political opinions and the controversial ways in which she presents and defends them, Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do."
Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on December 8, 1961, to Nell Husbands (née Martin; a native of Paducah, Kentucky) and John Vincent Coulter (a native of Albany, New York). The family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two older brothers, James and John, were raised. She graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980. Coulter's age was disputed in 2002 while she was arguing that she was not yet 40, yet Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited that she provided a birthdate of December 8, 1961, when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut prior to the 1980 Presidential election. Meanwhile, a driver's license issued several years later allegedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter will not confirm either date, citing privacy concerns.
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Arthel Neville
Arthel Neville (born October 20, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American journalist and television personality.
Arthel is the daughter of Art Neville, founder of the New Orleans music groups The Meters and The Neville Brothers.
Arthel Neville was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans. After graduating, she traveled to New York to pursue acting and modeling. She landed commercials and a recurring role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives before returning to New Orleans. She enrolled in prepharmacy at Xavier University before switching to journalism at Southern Methodist University. She finally landed at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor’s in journalism.
She began her career as a general assignment reporter at KVUE-TV while a junior at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism.
The first female African American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV, her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin covering live breaking news, politics, education, health, and human-interest stories.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. On her death she became the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas' Fifth Ward. Her parents were Benjamin Jordan, a Baptist minister; and Arlyne Jordan, a "domestic worker". Barbara attended Roberson Elementary School. She graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in 1952 as an honor student.
Because of segregation, she did not attend The University of Texas at Austin and instead chose Texas Southern University, majoring in political science and history. Barbara was a national champion debater, defeating her opponents from such schools as Yale and Brown and tying Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude in 1956. At Texas Southern University, she pledged Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She attended Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1959.
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Ben Bernanke
Ben Shalom Bernanke (English pronunciation: /bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist and currently chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke has overseen the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis.
Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave. From 2002 until 2005, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, proposed the Bernanke Doctrine, and first discussed "the Great Moderation"--the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy, particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations, diminishing the influence of macroeconomic (monetary and fiscal) policy. Bernanke then served as chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush appointed him on February 1, 2006, to be chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28, 2010, after being re-nominated by President Barack Obama.
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States (1889–1893). Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there. During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, and was later appointed to the U.S. Senate from that state.
Harrison, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland. His administration is most remembered for economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act, and for annual federal spending that reached one billion dollars for the first time. Democrats attacked the "Billion Dollar Congress", and used the issue, along with the growing unpopularity of the high tariff, to defeat the Republicans, both in the 1890 mid-term elections and in Harrison's bid for re-election in 1892. Harrison advocated, although unsuccessfully, for federal education funding and legislation to protect voting rights for African Americans. He also saw the admittance of six states into the Union.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
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Bill Cowan
William V. Cowan, often nicknamed Bill Cowan (born August 1943 in Sacramento, California), is a retired USMC Lieutenant Colonel, co-founder and CEO of wvc3, inc., a Reston, Virginia based company specializing in international security. He is also a contributor for the Fox News Channel
Cowan enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 17, received an appointment to and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1966, and was commissioned as a lieutenant the United States Marine Corps. He subsequently did two tours of duty in Vietnam where he spent three and a half years. A platoon commander at the siege of Khe Sanh, and in charge of the 3rd Marine Division's Kit Carson Scouts program for five months, most of his time was spent with small units and getting experience of raids, ambushes, riverine operations and intelligence gathering with the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1969 onwards, he was advisor for the South Vietnam military in the Rung Sat zone. During his last year he led the Rung Sat's Provincial Reconnaissance Unit. He received numerous awards for valor in combat and was wounded three times.
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Bill Hemmer
Bill Hemmer (born November 14, 1964) is an American television-news anchor. He is a co-host of America's Newsroom on the Fox News Channel.
Born William George Hemmer in Cincinnati, Ohio, he is the son of William Hemmer, a mattress executive, and Georganne Knittle, a former high school teacher; he is the middle child and second son of the Hemmers' five children.[citation needed]
He attended Our Lady of Victory Catholic parochial school{http://www.americancatholic.org/messenger/nov2000/feature1.asp before graduating from Elder High School in Cincinnati.
Hemmer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio. While at Miami University, he joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity and studied in Europe at the Miami University Dolibois European Center, located in Differdange, Luxembourg.
While in college, Hemmer interned as a radio disc jockey at WOXY-FM and later moved to an internship at Cincinnati's CBS affiliate .He started out in backroom production at WLWT in the early 1980s, and soon after, went to WCPO to be the weekend sports anchor. He took a year-long hiatus from CBS to take a trip around the world with long-time friend Denny Young. and wrote dispatches, submitted tapes and photos for both the local newspaper and CBS's local affiliate that were published under "Bill's Excellent Adventure." On his return from hiatus, he returned for two years to anchor locally before accepting a position at CNN's Atlanta office.
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Bill Richardson
William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, who served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary. Richardson has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. On December 3, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama designated Richardson for appointment to the cabinet-level position of Commerce Secretary. On January 4, 2009, Richardson announced his decision to withdraw his nomination because of an investigation into possibly improper business dealings in New Mexico. In August 2009, federal prosecutors dropped the pending investigation against the governor, and there was speculation in the media regarding Richardson's career, as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded.
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Bill Sammon
Bill Sammon is Fox News Washington managing editor and a vice president for the network, as well as a published author and newspaper columnist. He previously worked as White House correspondent for the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner before joining Fox News in August 2008.
A graduate of Saint Ignatius High School, in Cleveland, Ohio, and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Sammon lives in Maryland with his wife, Becky, and their five children: Brian, Brooke, Ben, Billy, and Blair. He stands 6 feet 7 inches tall and is reportedly nicknamed by some, including President George W. Bush, as "Big Stretch," or "Superstretch."
He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election; Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House; Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, Media Bias and the Bush Haters; and Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media. These books have been largely derided as overly favorable to President George W. Bush and his administration. Vanity Fair critic James Wolcott listed Strategery among a group of books on George W. Bush written by "faithful holdouts in Bush’s pep squad [who] are happy to have endowed him with superpowers" by writing "hagiography mash notes whose toothy gleam of triumphalism was almost blinding." Reporter David Weigel has sarcastically referred to these books as "scathing critiques of presidential power."The American Prospect wrote that Sammon "wrote an astonishing four books on the topic of Bush's super-awesomeness."
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Birch Bayh
Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (pronounced /ˈbaɪ/ BY; born January 22, 1928) is a former United States Senator from Indiana, having served from 1963 to 1981. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election, but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former Indiana Governor and former U.S. Senator Evan Bayh and Christopher Bayh, a lawyer in Washington, D.C.
Bayh was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, a son of Birch Evans Bayh, Sr. and his wife Leah Ward (née Hollingsworth). As an MP, he served with the United States Army in occupied Germany following World War II. Bayh graduated from the Purdue University School of Agriculture in 1951 and later attended Indiana State University. He received his JD from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1960.
Bayh served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1954 to 1962. He rose to the position of Speaker, and in 1961 was admitted to the Indiana Bar. He won the 1962 US Senate race in Indiana.
On June 19, 1964, Bayh, his wife, Senator Ted Kennedy and legislative aide Edward Moss were on a small plane that crashed in heavy fog near Springfield, Massachusetts. Senator Bayh pulled the badly injured Kennedy from the wreckage. Bayh and his wife were only slightly injured, while the pilot and Moss were both killed.
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Bob Barr
Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. (born November 5, 1948) is a former federal prosecutor and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attained national prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Barr joined the Libertarian Party in 2006, and served on its National Committee. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election. He is noted for his austere demeanour.
Barr was born on November 5, 1948, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Bob and Beatrice Barr. His father, a West Point soldier, moved the family to various locations around the world while pursuing his career in civil engineering. The second of six children, Bob Jr. spent his boyhood in Malaysia, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Baghdad in Iraq, and finally Tehran, Iran, where he graduated from Community High School in 1966.
Barr returned to the United States, attending the University of Southern California and joining the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity in 1967 (where as of 2011[update] he holds the position of Grand Epiprytanis on the fraternity's Grand Council). Barr also joined the Young Democrats of America and rallied against the Vietnam War. His parents disapproved, and threatened to cut off financial support if he continued his "flaming liberal" activities. During this time, Barr's mother introduced him to the work of Ayn Rand. This fostered a new-found appreciation for conservatism and prompted Barr to join the Young Trojan Republican Club. Barr completed his B.A., cum laude, from University of Southern California in 1970. Barr married his first wife while still in college. They divorced in 1976.
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Bob Beckel
Robert Beckel is an American political commentator and an analyst on the Fox News Channel where he currently co-hosts The Five. He is also a columnist for USA Today where he writes "point-counterpoint" style articles with friend and political opposite Cal Thomas. He is the brother of actor Graham Beckel.
Beckel holds a B.A. from Wagner College. While in college, he worked for Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968. Early in his career, he joined the U.S. Department of State and became the youngest deputy assistant secretary of state for the Carter administration. Beckel was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. During that campaign he became known as the man who effectively wrapped the Wendy's slogan "Where's the Beef?" around Gary Hart, Mondale's opponent for the Democratic nomination.
Beckel managed Alan Blinken's 2002 Senate campaign until he was dismissed after being targeted for extortion by a prostitute.
He was co-host of Crossfire Sunday on CNN alongside Tony Snow and later Lynne Cheney, and went on to Fox News Channel as a political analyst and commentator, regularly appearing on such shows as Hannity & Colmes (later Hannity), America's Newsroom, and Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. Beckel is a co-host of Fox News's The Five, a political talk show that replaced Glenn Beck in the 5 p.m. Eastern time slot in July 2011.
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Brad Ellsworth
John Bradley "Brad" Ellsworth (born September 11, 1958) is the former U.S. Representative for Indiana's 8th congressional district, serving from 2007 until 2011, and was the unsuccessful 2010 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate seat currently held by Dan Coats. In the general election, Ellsworth lost to then-former Senator Coats by 55% to 40%.
Ellsworth was born in Jasper, Indiana, the son of Margaret (née Scherle) and Jim Ellsworth. He spent his early years in Huntingburg, Indiana. When he was still in grade school, his family moved to Evansville, where his father took a job as a crane operator in Warrick County's Alcoa plant. He is the youngest of four, his brothers Eric and Joe and his sister Lisa. His brother Eric is the president and CEO of the YMCA of greater Indianapolis. His brother Joe is a founding partner and president of Fire & Rain Marketing/Communications headquartered in Evansville.[citation needed]
After graduation from William Henry Harrison High School in 1976, he attended Indiana State University-Evansville (now the University of Southern Indiana) where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, and was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma. Ellsworth worked in the paint and hardware department at Sears while in school to pay for his education. He later received a Masters Degree in Criminology from Indiana State University. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology also gave him an honorary doctorate of humane letters at their 2008 commencement.
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Bradford Lyttle
Bradford Lyttle is a prominent pacifist and peace activist, and organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action of several major campaigns against militarism, including "Omaha Action", against land-based nuclear missiles (1959); "Polaris Action" against submarine-based nuclear missiles (1960); the San Francisco to Moscow Peace Walk (1961); and the Quebec-Washington-Guantanamo Peace Walk (1963).
Among his theoretical works are a 1958 pamphlet presenting the case for nonviolent national defense against aggression; and a mathematical formula called "The Apocalypse Equation", which argues that, over time, the probability of nuclear missiles being used approaches 100%.
He is also the founder and perennial candidate for the office of President of the United States of the United States Pacifist Party. He ran as a write-in candidate in the 1984, 1996, and 2000 elections, and on the ballot in the state of Colorado in 2008. In 2008 Lyttle came in second to last of sixteen candidates in Colorado for which he received 110 votes, beating only Gene Amondson of the Prohibition Party. In Colorado, Amondson came in last place among all candidates with ballot access (though Amondson won enough votes elsewhere to surpass Lyttle's total nationally).
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Brenda Buttner
Brenda Buttner (born May 22, 1961 in Santa Cruz, California) is a senior business correspondent and host of Bulls & Bears on Fox News Channel. She also frequently contributes to Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Buttner graduated from Harvard University in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in social studies. She then spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, England, where she graduated with high honors and received a B.A. in politics and economics. After completing her studies at Oxford, Buttner moved to Reno, Nevada, where she began her television career at NBC affiliate KCRL-TV.
Before moving to Fox News, Buttner hosted CNBC's The Money Club and served as a Washington correspondent from 1990 to 1993 and general correspondent from 1995 to 1998 for the cable outlet.
Buttner has received numerous awards for her work, including a Cable Ace award in 1996 for best business programming and a National Clarion award in 1990 for best news story. In addition, many of her personal finance articles have been published in popular publications such as The New York Times and Ladies' Home Journal.
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Bret Baier
Bret Baier (born August 4, 1970 in Rumson, New Jersey) is an American journalist and the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent.
Baier began his television career with WRAL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network's Atlanta bureau chief. On September 11, 2001, he drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network's Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq. He became Fox News's White House correspondent in 2007, covering the administration of George W. Bush. In the fall of 2007, he began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of Special Report, on Fridays.
On December 23, 2008, Brit Hume anchored his final show and announced Baier would replace him as anchor of Special Report. He hosted his first show as permanent anchor on January 5, 2009.
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Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade (born May 7, 1964) a Fox News Channel television personality. Weekdays, he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, along with Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson. Kilmeade also co-hosts Brian and the Judge, a talk-news radio show on Fox News Radio, with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. He also hosts the Fox News Radio program Kilmeade and Friends
After graduating from Massapequa High School in 1982, Kilmeade attended C.W. Post, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986. He began his career as a correspondent on Channel One, a daily national high school television news program. He later served as an anchor and host for KHSC-TV in Ontario, California. He co-hosted The Jim Brown Show on XTRA-AM, an all-sports radio network. In 1993, Kilmeade joined Brown as part of the announcing team for the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship event, conducting post-fight interviews. He would move into the play-by-play role for UFC 2 and UFC 3 in 1994.
Kilmeade was as a freelance sports anchor for WVIT (NBC) in Hartford. He was a sideline reporter for the MSG Network, where he covered the New York/New Jersey Metro-Stars, a major league soccer team based in Giants Stadium.
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Brian Rohrbough
Brian Rohrbough (c. 1961) was the 2008 vice presidential candidate of America's Independent Party in the 2008 United States presidential election, running on the ticket with presidential candidate Alan Keyes.
Rohrbough was raised in Littleton, Colorado.
Rohrbough dropped out of high school at age 16 and later founded a car stereo business in Englewood, Colorado. His son, Daniel, was the second murder victim in the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, being wounded by Eric Harris, then fatally shot in the back by Dylan Klebold. This event profoundly affected Rohrbough's life. Afterward, he led efforts to examine the sociological reasons for this event, ultimately concluding that America's so-called "culture of death", specifically legalized abortion, and the removal of all vestiges of religion from public school classrooms, were root causes. Since then he has become involved in the anti-abortion movement, and served as president of Colorado Right to Life.
Today he is the president of the splinter anti-abortion group American Right to Life. This local Colorado organization is dedicated to prohibiting abortion. He has appeared on numerous local and national television programs across the country.
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Brit Hume
Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume (born June 22, 1943) is an American political commentator and television journalist. For twenty years he was a correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company, including Chief White House Correspondent. He then spent ten years as the Washington, D.C. managing editor of the Fox News Channel and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume. Since 2008, he has been the senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular public affairs panelist on Fox News Sunday.
Alexander Britton Hume was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Virginia Powell (née Minnigerode) Hume and George Graham Hume. He attended St. Albans School at the same time as Al Gore and graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1965.
Hume first worked for The Hartford Times, and later for United Press International and the Baltimore Evening Sun. He then worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972, and later for Richard Pollak, founding editor of [MORE] (a monthly media review published in the 1970s), as a Washington Editor during the mid-1970s.
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Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is a popular American writer on faith, family, and finding meaning in everyday life. He is the best-selling author of nine books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and America's Prophet, and one of only a handful of writers to have four consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers in the last decade. He is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible.
His latest book, The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me, describes how he responded to a diagnosis of cancer by asking six men from all passages of his life to be present through the passages of his young daughters’ lives.
Feiler is credited with formulating the Feiler Faster Thesis: the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information.
He has written for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Gourmet magazine, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is also a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, CNN, and Fox News.
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Cal Thomas
John Calvin "Cal" Thomas (born 1942) is an American syndicated columnist, pundit, author and radio commentator.
Thomas was born in 1942 in Washington, D.C.. He attended the American University for his undergraduate education. During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a reporter at NBC News. His column, which began in 1984, is syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Thomas joined Fox News as a political contributor in 1997. He is a panelist on Fox News Watch, a Fox News Channel program criticizing the media, and until September 2005 hosted After Hours with Cal Thomas on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, which is heard on more than 300 stations.
Thomas has written extensively about political issues and he supports, among other things, many American positions related to Israel.
He has written 10 books, including Blinded By Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s. Thomas was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985. He is an evangelical Christian.
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Carl Cameron
Carl Cameron (born September 22, 1961) is an American television journalist and commentator for Fox News Channel.
As a child Cameron spent several years in Iran, where his father worked as an archaeologist. He attended Bates College.
Cameron began his broadcast career in 1985 at radio stations WFEA and WZID in Manchester, New Hampshire. Later he worked as political director for WMUR-TV in New Hampshire. In 1995 he began working for Fox News, covering the 1996 presidential election. He joined Fox News full time as its first Capitol Hill Correspondent in 1996. Cameron has worked as a political correspondent for Fox News, covering every presidential election since 1996 and earning him the nickname "Campaign Carl".
After the 2000 elections, Fox News named Cameron its first Chief Political Correspondent, and after the 2004 elections, he was named its first Chief White House Correspondent. In June 2006, Cameron returned to his job as Chief Political Correspondent to cover the 2006 midterm elections and prepare for the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Casey Stegall
Casey Stegall (born 1979) is a network correspondent for Fox News Channel, based in the Los Angeles bureau. Stegall joined FOX News after working as a general assignment morning reporter and substitute anchor at KDFW-TV; FOX 4 in Dallas, Texas. Prior to that, he was a city hall reporter at KVUE-TV; ABC 24 in Austin, Texas. Stegall started his journalism career as a reporter in his hometown for WTVW-TV; FOX 7 in Evansville, Indiana.
In August 2007, Stegall traveled to Israel to work out of the FOX News Jerusalem bureau. During that time he covered the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as well as growing tensions between Israel and Syria. In October 2009, Stegall went to Afghanistan and provided the network with live reports from the war zone. He stayed at bases in Kandahar and Farah while embedded with a wing of the U.S. Air Force.
In his time at the network, Stegall has covered major breaking news stories from the devastating California wildfires to the I-35 Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis. He also covered Hurricane Gustav in New Orleans and Hurricane Ike in Texas. Most recently, Stegall was one of the lead correspondents on the network's coverage of Michael Jackson's death and was inside the funeral. He also fills in at the anchor desk in New York where he once anchored days of breaking news coverage on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the worst terror attack in India's history.
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Catherine Herridge
Catherine Herridge (born May 18, 1964) is an American Homeland Security correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She had hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Live.
Joining the network at its inception in 1996, she originally was a London-based correspondent for ABC News. Herridge has also served as a field correspondent for the past Fox newsmagazine, The Pulse.
She has covered a number of different stories including Hillary Clinton’s campaign for Senate in 2000, the 2004 Democratic presidential elections, the Washington, D.C. sniper story, coverage on US sponsored resolution calling for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq, and the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the U.S. over the 9/11 attacks. Herridge was in New York on September 11, 2001, and reported for the network from locations in New York City.[citation needed]
Herridge has been a recipient of a number of awards for her work in journalism, including a Bronze World Medal from the New York Festivals for excellence in communications media. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a Master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[citation needed]
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Charles Jay
Charles Jay (born 1960) was the Presidential nominee of the United States Boston Tea Party in the 2008 United States presidential election. He was the presidential nominee of the Personal Choice Party in the 2004 election, achieving ballot status in Utah, and received 946 votes in the general election, coming in third from last.
Jay has a B.A. in business from the University of Miami, and has worked in the sport of boxing as a manager and spokesman, among other positions.
A former member of the U.S. Libertarian Party, he stepped down from the race for the Vice Presidential nomination to the 2004 ballot to run as for President under the Personal Choice Party banner. His vice presidential candidate was Marilyn Chambers, a porn star famous from the 1970s. The Jay/Chambers ticket received 946 votes in the general election.
On Monday, June 16, 2008, Jay won the Boston Tea Party's presidential nomination at its nomination convention that was held on the national party's website online and will again be the candidate of the Personal Choice Party. His running mate was blogger and online magazine editor Thomas L. Knapp.
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Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer (pronounced /ˈkraʊt.hæmər/; born March 13, 1950) is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His column is syndicated to more than 275 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. He is also a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington and a nightly panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier.
Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City. He was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where he attended McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. He was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, 1970–1971. He later moved back to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. Suffering a paralyzing accident in his first year of medical school, he was hospitalized for a year, during which time he continued his medical studies. He graduated with his class, earning a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1975, and went on to complete a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984 he became board certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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Cheryl Casone
Cheryl Cecile Casone (born July 18, 1970) is an American anchor on the Fox Business Network. She is also a Fox News business correspondent and the host of Cashin' In. Casone is also the former host of "Fox Business Now," an hourly business web update that can be viewed on Yahoo and FoxNews.com.
Before joining Fox, she was a fill-in business and stock market reporter for CNN and Headline News (HLN). In addition Casone was a freelance reporter for CBS News. Prior to her freelance assignments Casone was a news update anchor for MSNBC and occasional anchor of MSNBC Live from July 2004 until September 2005. Casone has previously worked for ON24 as a business reporter covering international markets, KRON-TV in San Francisco as an anchor/reporter from February 2002 to July 2004, and for Bloomberg Television in New York City as a business reporter in January 2002.
Casone has done live reports from Middle East nations such as, Syria, Jordan, West Bank, and Israel. She has interviewed world leaders such as Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, and Salam Fayyad.
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Chris Cillizza
Christopher Michael Cillizza (pronounced /sɨˈlɪzə/; born February 20, 1976) is an American political reporter for the Washington Post. He writes The Fix, a daily political weblog for the Post website. He is a regular contributor to the Post on political issues.
Cillizza worked for The Cook Political Report and Roll Call prior to joining The Washington Post. For the Cook Report he covered governor's races and southern House races and wrote a column on politics for Congress Daily. During his four years at Roll Call, which he joined in June 2001, he reported on campaign politics from the presidential to the congressional level, finishing his time at Roll Call as the paper's White House correspondent. His freelance work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Washingtonian and Slate. He has also been a guest on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.
"The Fix" blog began at the Washington Post in October 2005, and includes a weekly "Friday Line" section where the ten closest electoral races of an electoral cycle — as judged by Cillizza — are profiled and analyzed. The blog's focus is American electoral politics, with Cillizza commenting on gubernatorial, Congressional and presidential elections. After multiple guest appearances on the network, Cillizza was recently named an MSNBC Political Analyst.
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Chris Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress.
Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was one of Connecticut's United States Senators from 1959-1971. Chris Dodd served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering law school at the University of Louisville, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve.
Dodd returned to Connecticut, winning election in 1974 to the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 2nd congressional district and was reelected in 1976 and 1978. He was elected United States Senator in the elections of 1980, and was the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history.
Dodd served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee until his retirement. In 2006, Dodd decided to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several other competitors. In January 2010, Dodd announced that he would not run for re-election in the 2010 midterm elections. Dodd was succeeded by Richard Blumenthal. On March 1, 2011, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Dodd will head that organization.
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Christian Porter
Charles Christian Porter (born 11 July 1970) is a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Bateman and is Treasurer and Attorney-General in the Liberal-National government. He entered Parliament after winning the seat of Murdoch in a by-election in 2008 following the death of the sitting member, Trevor Sprigg. Porter was immediately appointed as Shadow Attorney General.
At the 2008 election, Porter contested and won the newly created seat of Bateman following the abolition of the seat of Murdoch in the 2007 redistribution. He was also appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Corrective Services after the election.
On 14 December 2010, Porter was sworn in as Treasurer of Western Australia. He retained the portfolio of Attorney General, while the Corrective Services portfolio was transferred to Terry Redman.
Porter was educated at the University of Western Australia where he graduated Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in politics, before completing a Bachelor of Law degree Porter later studied at the London School of Economics in a Masters of Political Theory from which he graduated at the top of his class with distinction.
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Chuck Baldwin
Charles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin (born May 3, 1952) is an American politician and founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 U.S. presidential election and had previously been its nominee for U.S. vice president in 2004. He hosts a daily one-hour radio program, Chuck Baldwin Live, and writes a daily editorial column carried on its website, on News with Views, and on VDare.
As a Republican Party member, Baldwin was state chairman of the Florida Moral Majority in the 1980s. However, during the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush for U.S. President, Baldwin left the party and began a long period of criticism of Bush. Baldwin endorsed U.S. Representative Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, and Paul in turn endorsed Baldwin for the presidency in the 2008 general election.
Baldwin supports ending U.S. involvement in the United Nations, reducing U.S. income taxes, and repeal of the Patriot Act. He would withdraw troops from Iraq and seek to end illegal immigration by enforcing immigration laws. He supports the gold standard, the right to keep and bear arms, homeschooling, and the proposed Sanctity of Life Act, which would define "human life" and legal personhood as beginning at conception, and prevent federal courts from hearing cases on abortion-related legislation.
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Chuck Robb
Charles Spittal "Chuck" Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician. He served as the 64th Governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States senator from 1989 until 2001. In 2004, he chaired the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
Charles Robb was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in the Mount Vernon area of Alexandria, Virginia. He earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1961, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.
A United States Marine Corps veteran and honor graduate of Quantico, Robb became a White House social aide. It was there that he met and eventually married Lynda Johnson, the daughter of then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Robb went on to serve two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he commanded a rifle company in combat, and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war he earned a J.D. at the University of Virginia Law School in 1973, and following a clerkship with a federal appeals judge entered private practice.
In 1977, Robb won election as a Democrat for the lieutenant governorship of Virginia. He served as lieutenant governor from 1978 to 1982 and as governor from 1982 to 1986. In the 1977 election, Robb was the only of three Democrats running for statewide office to win that year, leaving him as the sole head of a political party that had not won a governor's race in a dozen years. Four years later in 1981, Robb led all three Democrats into office by appealing to conservatives who were disenchanted with his opponent's maverick style. Virginia Democrats again won all three statewide offices in 1985, which was viewed as an endorsement of Robb's leadership while in office. As a campaigner, Robb was capable but reserved. During a time when political communication styles were beginning to favor sound bites, Robb was known for speaking in paragraphs about complex policy issues. He was also noteworthy among his contemporaries for raising substantial sums of campaign funds.
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Claude Matthews
Claude Matthews (1845–1898) was the 23rd Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1893 to 1897. A farmer, he was nominated to prevent the loss of voters to the Populist Party. The Panic of 1893 occurred just before he took office, leading to severe economic problems during his term. Republicans took the Indiana General Assembly in the 1894 mid-term election and repudiated many of the Democrats' laws, leading to violence in the assembly. A popular party figure when he left office, he was a nominee to run for President at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, but lost his bid for the candidacy.
Matthews was born in Bethel, Kentucky on December 14, 1845, the son of Thoas A. and Eliza Ann Fletcher Matthews. His mother died when he was four months old and his father sent him to be raised by an aunt in Kentucky. His father remarried in 1858 and he returned to live with them near Danville, Kentucky. He worked on the family's farm and attended Centre College and graduated in 1867. The same year he moved to Clinton, Indiana where he met Martha Whitcomb, the daughter of former state governor James Whitcomb. The couple married on January 1, 1868 and had three children.
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Claudia Cowan
Claudia Cowan (born July 31, 1963, USA), is an American news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She began her career at KTTV-TV (FOX) in Los Angeles, where she worked her way up from being a messenger to an on-air reporter. She then moved to KMST-TV in Monterey as a desk assistant, and worked her way up to reporter, anchor of the noon news, then co-anchor of the weekend evening news. She also spent time producing and editing. From there, she spent seven years at KOVR-TV13 (CBS) in Sacramento, covering breaking news and state politics, and anchoring the morning and midday newscasts. In 1995, she moved to KRON-4 (NBC) in San Francisco to report for the evening news. In April 1998, she was hired by the newly launched Fox News Channel, as their Bay Area correspondent.
Claudia is a graduate of UCLA and is the daughter of actress Barbara Rush and publicist Warren Cowan.
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Clayton Morris
Clayton Morris (born December 31 (New Year's Eve), 1976) is a current co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend on Fox News Channel and a former co-host of the syndicated The Daily Buzz. He also covers consumer technology for Fox News Channel and hosts weekly technology segments for Fox News Radio and FoxNews.com.
Morris graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. He attended Wilson High School (Spring Township, Pennsylvania) He is a frequent guest-panelist on Fox New's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
His son, Miles Benjamin Morris, was born on July 26, 2010 with his wife, Natali Morris. On October 27, 2011, Natali announced that she and Clayton were expecting their second child. Their daughter, Ava Elizabeth, was born on May 8, 2012
Clayton Morris is currently the host of five podcasts.
Clayton Morris also makes regular appearances on The 404, a CNET Podcast, and This WEEK in TECH, a TWiT.tv Network podcast.
Morris was famously ridiculed by the liberal blog Huffington Post for "forgetting" his own name twice in one broadcast. The Video went viral shortly after. As noted in the Huffington Post article, "Morris was reading the intro to the Fox & Friends web feature, Fox Flash, when he jokingly introduced himself as "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy." The article also quoted a Fox News insider who claimed this prank was not received well by Fox higher-ups: "It was wishful thinking on Morris' part, and executives didn't find it amusing."
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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice ( /ˌkɒndəˈliːzə/; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
Following her confirmation as Secretary of State, Rice pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy, with a focus on democracy in the Greater Middle East. Her emphasis on supporting democratically elected governments faced challenges as Hamas captured a popular majority in Palestinian elections, and influential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt maintained authoritarian systems with U.S. support. While Secretary of State, she chaired the Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors.
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Conrad Baker
Conrad Baker (February 12, 1817 – April 28, 1885) was a state representative, 15th Lieutenant Governor, and the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1867 to 1873. Baker had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel but resigned following his election as lieutenant governor, during which time he played an important role in overseeing the formation and training of states levies. He served as acting-governor for five months during the illness of Governor Oliver Morton, and was elevated to Governor following Morton's resignation from office. During Baker's full term as governor, he focused primitively on the creation and improvement of institutions to help veterans and their families that had been disaffected by the war. He also championed the post-war federal constitutional amendments, and was able to successfully advocate their acceptance.
Conrad Baker war born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on February 12, 1817, the son of Conrad Baker, a Presbyterian minister, and Catherine Winterheimer Baker. He worked on the family farm until age fifteen and attended common school. He then enrolled in Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg where he studied law, but quit before graduating. He continued to study law in the office of Thaddeus Stevens. He met Matilda Escon Sommers and the couple married in 1838. They had two children. Baker was admitted to the bar in 1839 and opened his own office in Gettysburg.
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Courtney Friel
Courtney Friel (born April 22, 1980) is an American reporter for KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, California. She covers entertainment for the Fox11 station in Los Angeles as well as for Fox News Channel and other local stations.
Prior to her move to Los Angeles, she was the entertainment reporter at Fox News Channel, contributing to a number of different entertainment related programs for the network's website, FoxNews.com. Friel was a frequent guest contributor on the Fox News late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Friel is married to Carter Evans who is a national business correspondent for CNN Newsource. On January 1, 2011 Friel gave birth to Cash Hudson Evans. On April 6, 2012 she gave birth to a daughter, Cameron Kaiulani Evans.
Friel attended Methacton High School in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She regularly did the televised morning announcements, and was very active in the school's media production class. One day, after submitting a short video, Friel was chosen to appear in Channel One News' student produced week in Los Angeles. Friel went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from San Diego State University.
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Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician and activist. McKinney was a member of the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party of the United States nominated McKinney for President of the United States. She was the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.
In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the newly re-created 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson, McKinney was easily elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected twice without substantive opposition.
McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary. Some people believe she was defeated because of Republican crossover voting in Georgia's open primary election, which permits anyone from any party to vote in any party primary and "usually rewards moderate candidates and penalizes those outside the mainstream." Others believe that her defeat was due to her "her controversial profile, which included support for Arab causes and a suggestion that Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks."
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Dagen McDowell
Dagen McDowell is an anchor on the Fox Business Network and a business correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She is also a business contributor on the Imus In The Morning radio show.
A native of Campbell County, Virginia, from a family of Irish background, McDowell graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in Art History. McDowell began her career as a financial journalist at the Institutional Investor's Newsletter Division.
McDowell appears regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto and has been a weekly panelist for Cashin' In (she has won the Cashin' In Challenge the past three years, defeating the other three panelists, all of whom are professional money managers).
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Dan Coats
Daniel Ray "Dan" Coats (born May 16, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Indiana and member of the Republican Party. He was in the United States Senate from 1989 to 1999, retired, and then returned in 2011.
Born in Jackson, Michigan, Coats graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968. Before serving in the U.S. Senate, Coats was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Indiana's 4th congressional district from 1981 to 1989. He was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Dan Quayle following Quayle's election as Vice President of the United States in 1988. Coats won the 1990 special election to serve the remainder of Quayle's unexpired term, as well as the 1992 election for a full six-year term. He did not seek reelection in 1998, and was succeeded by Evan Bayh.
After retiring from the Senate, Coats served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, and then worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He was re-elected to the Senate by a large margin in 2010, succeeding Bayh, who announced his own retirement shortly after Coats declared his candidacy. Along with Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, he is one of two current Senators to have returned to the Senate after having retired from the Senate.
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Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle ( /ˈkweɪl/; born February 4, 1947) served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993). He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana.
Quayle was born in Indianapolis but spent most of his childhood living in Arizona. He married Marilyn Tucker in 1972 and obtained his J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974. He practiced law in Huntington, Indiana with his wife before being elected to the United States Congress in 1976, aged 29. In 1980, Quayle was elected to the Senate.
In 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush was nominated for the presidency by the Republican Party and asked his party to nominate Quayle as his vice presidential running mate. Although this choice was met with some dismay, the Bush/Quayle ticket won the 1988 election over Democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. As vice president, Quayle made official visits to 47 countries and was appointed chairman of the National Space Council. He secured re-nomination for vice-president in 1992 but the Bush/Quayle ticket was defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton and his vice-presidential running mate, Al Gore.
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Dana Perino
Dana Maria Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator for Fox News. She served as the White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007 to January 20, 2009. She was the second female White House Press Secretary, after Dee Dee Myers who served during the Clinton Administration.
Perino was born in Evanston, Wyoming, the daughter of Jan and Leo Perino, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. Two of her paternal great-grandparents were Italian immigrants. She attended Ponderosa High School in Parker, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. Perino graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish. While attending the university, she was active on the forensics (public speaking) team and with KTSC-TV, the campus-based Rocky Mountain PBS affiliate where she served as host of Capitol Journal, a weekly summary of Colorado politics, and producer of Standoff, a weekly public affairs program.[citation needed] Perino went on to obtain a masters degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). During her time at UIS, she also worked for WCIA, a CBS affiliate, as a daily reporter covering the Illinois Capitol.
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Daniel Imperato
Daniel Imperato (b. March 9, 1958, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American businessman, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in 2008. Imperato has also unsuccessfully sought the Green Party, Reform Party, and Constitution Party nominations. A resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, the 2008 election was Imperato's first run for political office. Imperato's campaign literature describes him as an "independent Libertarian" and an "alternative candidate" for the Presidency.
Imperato grew up in Revere, Massachusetts. Daniel is the son of Paul "Sonny" Imperato and the late Mary C. Imperato. The Imperatos were originally immigrants from Italy. When promoting The Red Worm (a film he supposedly produced), Imperato claimed his family was descended from the Roman Emperor Nero.
Imperato is currently a Papal Knight [2] and a Knight of Malta [3].
Imperato was a board member and headed up the Palm Beach, Florida branch office of the African Center Foundation. Imperato's website claims the organization is a United Nations non-governmental organization [4] but in reality only works with the United Nations Economic and Social Council [5]. Imperato also is a Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association [6].
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Darrell Castle
Darrell Castle (born 1948) is an American political figure, activist and attorney from Memphis, Tennessee, and was the vice presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Castle grew up in northeastern Tennessee in a small town near Kingsport. He attended Ketron High School and East Tennessee State University, graduating from each in 1966 and 1970, respectively. At ETSU, he earned a B.S., double-majoring in political science and history.
Castle was then commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving for four years and attaining the rank of First Lieutenant. He cites his military service as fostering his belief that war should not be entered into capriciously nor without congressional approval. After his discharge, he returned to ETSU and began his graduate study of history. He then attended the law school at University of Memphis, then known as Memphis State University, and earned his Juris Doctor in 1979.
Upon receiving his J.D. in Memphis, Castle became an attorney. In 1984, he opened a private firm which later grew into Darrell Castle and Associates. Since then, Castle has opened firms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; and Kansas City, Missouri. His firms focus on consumer bankruptcy and personal injury, but also represent clients in the areas of social security/disability and workers' compensation.
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Dave McCurdy
David Keith McCurdy (born March 30, 1950) is a U.S. lawyer, politician, conservative Democrat, and a former Oklahoma Congressman from Oklahoma's 4th congressional district. He is president of the American Gas Association.
McCurdy was born in the town of Canadian, Texas, in Hemphill County. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1972 and a law degree there in 1975. He studied international economics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Graduate Fellow.
McCurdy served in the United States Air Force Reserve, attaining the rank of major and serving as a Judge Advocate General (JAG).
He was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1977.
McCurdy served for seven terms, from 1981 to 1995. In 1980 he ran for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district seat in Congress, succeeding sixteen-term congressman Tom Steed of Shawnee. He trailed Oklahoma House Majority Leader James B. Townsend, also from Shawnee, in the Democratic primary 40% to 34%, then won 51.2% of the vote in the runoff election. McCurdy defeated Townsend with campaign commercials espousing prayer in public and support for a Christ statue in the Wichita mountains, near Lawton.
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David Asman
David Asman (pronounced /ˈæzmən/; born 1954 in Hollis, New York) is an American television news anchor for the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Channel.
Joining Fox News in 1997, Asman presently hosts Forbes on Fox and other numerous Fox News Specials. He previously was a host of Fox News Live weekdays, but relinquished that title in August 2005 to head up FNC's documentary unit.
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David Plouffe
David Plouffe ( /ˈplʌf/; born May 27,[citation needed] 1967) is an American political strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the United States. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media, which he joined in 2000.
After the resignation of David Axelrod to set up for Obama's re-election campaign, Plouffe was appointed Senior Advisor to the President.
Plouffe was raised in Wilmington, Delaware and attended St. Mark's High School. He left the University of Delaware in 1989 to pursue a full time career in politics, and completed his full undergraduate degree in May 2010.
Plouffe began his political career when he went to work for Senator Tom Harkin's 1990 re-election campaign. He later worked as a state field director for Harkin's unsuccessful 1992 Presidential campaign. In the same year he successfully managed Congressman John Olver's first re-election bid in Massachusetts. In 1994 Plouffe managed Delaware Attorney General Charles M. Oberly's unsuccessful campaign against Senator William V. Roth. He then worked as campaign director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1995. In 1996 Plouffe managed Bob Torricelli's successful campaign to fill Bill Bradley's New Jersey seat in the United States Senate.[citation needed]
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David Turpie
David Battle Turpie (July 8, 1828 – April 21, 1909) was an American politician.
Turpie was born in Hamilton County, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and graduated from Kenyon College in 1848. He studied law and moved to Logansport, Indiana where he set up a law practice. He soon became active in the United States Democratic Party to which he would belong for the rest of his life.
Turpie was elected to the state legislature at the age of 24 in 1852. He served one term and then returned to practicing law. In 1854 he became a common pleas judge and in 1856 he became a state circuit court judge. In 1858 he was elected to the state legislature again for one year.
Turpie was elected to the United States Senate from Indiana in January 1863, to fill the unexpired term of Jesse D. Bright who had been expelled for alleged disloyalty. The term was nearly complete, however, so Turpie only served in the Senate for one month. He returned to practicing law.
Turpie moved to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1872. He was again elected to the state legislature and served as speaker of the Assembly from 1874 to 1875. He served as the United States District Attorney for Indiana from 1886 to 1887.
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David Weigel
David "Dave" Weigel (born September 26, 1981), is an American journalist, currently working for Slate magazine and MSNBC. Weigel began appearing on MSNBC in 2009, accepting a position as a paid contributor in June 2010. From April through June 2010 he wrote a weblog for The Washington Post website focusing on the conservative and tea party movements and the Republican Party's preparations for the 2010 midterm elections. Weigel resigned from the Post following the leak of several emails he had written on JournoList, a private "independent to left-leaning" listserv, that were critical of prominent conservative figures and the conservative movement.
He is a contributing editor of the libertarian Reason magazine and was one of their staff political writers from 2006 to 2008. Weigel also served as an assistant at USA Today 's editorial page and as a reporter for Campaigns & Elections. In 2006 and 2010, Weigel guest blogged at Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish for The Atlantic. He wrote for The Washington Independent from November 2008 until early 2010. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Slate, Time.com, The Guardian, The American Prospect, The American Conservative, The American Spectator, The Washington Monthly, Politico, and The Nation.
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Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich ( /kuːˈsɪnɪtʃ/; born October 8, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district, serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
The district includes most of western Cleveland as well as suburbs such as Parma and Lakewood. He is a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
From 1977 to 1979, Kucinich served as the 53rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, a tumultuous term in which he survived a recall election and was successful in a battle against selling the municipal electric utility before being defeated for reelection by George Voinovich.
Through his various governmental positions and campaigns, Kucinich has attracted attention for consistently delivering "the strongest liberal" perspective. This perspective has been shown by his actions, such as bringing articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and being the only Democratic candidate in the 2008 election to have voted against invading Iraq, although eventual nominee Barack Obama had also opposed the Iraq War at the time it was started, even though he had not been in Congress at the time.
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Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Dial Global.
Although in his early years of fame he was perceived to be quite liberal and anti-Republican, in recent years, Miller has become known for his right-leaning political opinions. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Miller Time", and previously appeared on the network's Hannity & Colmes in a segment called "Real Free Speech".
Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Castle Shannon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he graduated from Keystone Oaks High School in 1971. His parents separated and Miller was raised by his mother, Norma, a dietitian. Miller is of Scottish descent. At Point Park University, he majored in journalism because he thought it would be easy: "I remember seeing All the President's Men and thinking Redford looked cool in his crinkled tie."[citation needed] He was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. About his social status during this period, Miller writes: "When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made me do some things I'm not proud of, although they made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele" (I Rant, Therefore I Am). Miller graduated from Point Park University in 1976.
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Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948) is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia (which includes Iran) to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Ross was born in San Francisco and grew up in Marin County. His Jewish mother and Catholic stepfather raised him in a non-religious atmosphere. Ross graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1970 and did graduate work there, writing his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decision-making. He later became religiously Jewish after the Six Day War. In 2002 he co-founded the Kol Shalom synagogue in Rockville, Maryland.
During President Jimmy Carter's administration, Ross worked under Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon. There, he co-authored a study recommending greater U.S. intervention in "the Persian Gulf Region because of our need for Persian Gulf oil and because events in the Persian Gulf affect the Arab-Israeli conflict." During the Reagan administration, Ross served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs in the National Security Council and Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (1982–84).
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Diane Beall Templin
Diane Beall Templin (born May 23, 1947, Buffalo, New York) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1996 election, the 2004 election, and the 2008 election.
In 1996 her running mate was Gary Van Horn; that year she was on the ballot in Utah representing the Independent American Party (IAP), where she received 1,290 votes; in Colorado she represented the American Party and received 557 votes. The 2000 ticket of the American Party, Don Rogers and Albert B. "Al" Moore, promised that if elected they would nominate Templin to head the Environmental Protection Agency and to the United States Supreme Court. When she ran again in 2004, her Vice Presidential nominee was Al Moore; they were not on the ballot in any state. They replaced the brief American Party ticket of Robert Boyd[disambiguation needed
] and Walter Thompson[disambiguation needed ], who chose to withdraw.
Templin was one of 135 candidates who ran for governor in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, receiving 1,067 votes. The San Diego described her as a "swing dance enthusiast." During the recall campaign, Templin appeared on a statewide PBS news program as she was dipped by a dance partner while declaring that California was "upside down." She has also run for California Attorney General in 1998 and 2002 as a candidate of the American Independent Party of California and has been a perennial candidate for Congress in California's 50th and 51st district in 2004.
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Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (/ˈɡɛp.hɑrt/; born January 31, 1941) is a lobbyist and former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, serving as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995, and as Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008.
Since his retirement from politics, he founded a Washington-based public affairs firm, Gephardt Government Affairs, and an Atlanta-based labor consultancy, the Gephardt Group.
Gephardt was born into a family in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Loreen Estelle (née Cassell) and Louis Andrew Gephardt, a Teamster milkman; part of his ancestry is German. He graduated from the former Southwest High School in 1958. Gephardt is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He earned his B.S. at Northwestern University in 1962 where he was president of Beta Theta Pi, the student senate, and his freshman class. He earned his J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.
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Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948) is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.
A friend and advisor to Bill Clinton during his time as Governor of Arkansas, Morris became a political adviser to the White House after Clinton was elected president in 1992. Morris encouraged Clinton to pursue third way policies of triangulation that combined, to achieve maximum political gain and popularity, traditional Republican and Democratic proposals, rhetoric, and issues. He worked as a Republican strategist before joining the Clinton administration, where he helped Clinton recover from the 1994 midterm elections by convincing the President to adopt Republican policies.
The president consulted Morris in secret beginning in 1994. Clinton's communications director George Stephanopoulos has said, "Over the course of the first nine months of 1995, no single person had more power over the president." Morris went on to become campaign manager of Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President. His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election, when it was revealed that he had allowed a prostitute to listen in on conversations with the President. Morris then turned his focus to media commentary. He now writes a weekly column for the New York Post which is carried nationwide, contributes columns and blogs to both the print and online versions of The Hill, and appears regularly on the Fox News Channel for political commentary. He is also President of Vote.com.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1962–1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), Counsellor to the President (1969–1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975).
Born in Illinois, Rumsfeld attended Princeton University, graduating in 1954 with a degree in political science. After serving in the Navy for three years, he mounted a campaign for Congress in Illinois' 13th Congressional District, winning in 1962 at the age of 30. Reelected four times, he was a leading co-sponsor of the Freedom of Information Act. Rumsfeld was reluctantly appointed by President Richard Nixon to head the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969; appointed Counselor by Nixon and entitled to Cabinet-level status, he would also head up the Economic Stabilization Program before being appointed Ambassador to NATO. Called back to Washington in August 1974, Rumsfeld was appointed Chief of Staff by President Ford, recruiting a young one-time staffer of his, Dick Cheney, to succeed him when Ford nominated Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense in 1975.
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Doug McKelway
Douglas B. McKelway (born 1954) is a television journalist who serves as a general assignment reporter for the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Fox News Channel. He joined the network in November 2010. McKelway previously worked at the Washington D.C. ABC affiliate WJLA-TV.
He was born and raised in Washington D.C. His grandfather, Benjamin M. McKelway, was editor of the Washington Evening Star newspaper and President of the Associated Press. His father, William Prentiss McKelway, was an obstetrician and a clinical professor at George Washington University Hospital. McKelway graduated from the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Skidmore College.
McKelway's first television news job was in Charlotte, North Carolina at WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV) from 1980 to 1982. He also worked in Kansas, Missouri and Florida, before returning to Washington. He was a reporter and news anchor with WRC-TV until October 2001, when he joined WJLA-TV.
On May 13, 2009, as co-host of Washington, DC's Let's Talk Live on local cable's TBD TV (Formerly News Channel 8), McKelway conducted a live interview with blogger Michael Rogers where they discussed Rogers' efforts to "out" secretly gay politicians who oppose gay rights. At one point, McKelway told Rogers, "I'd take you outside and give you a punch across the face... I think you're hurting innocent people."
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Doug Stanhope
Douglas Gene "Doug" Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author known for his on-stage drinking and abrasive comedy routines.
Stanhope quit high school after his freshman year. His comedy career began in 1990 in Las Vegas.
Stanhope has made appearances at several major comedy festivals, including the Montreal Just For Laughs, US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where he won the Strathmore Press Award in 2002.
Stanhope was the winner of the 1995 San Francisco International Comedy Competition where he edged out notable comedic actor Dane Cook in a three-week contest. He's appeared in dozens of national and international standup comedy television specials. He claims that his appearance on the BBC television show, Live Floor Show, (broadcast March 20, 2003) was fueled by "ecstasy". According to Stanhope, "TV is just for the money; live performance is where it’s at."
In 2003 and 2004, Stanhope co-hosted the fifth and sixth seasons of The Man Show with Joe Rogan.
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Duncan Hunter
Duncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from California's 52nd, 45th and 42nd districts from 1981 to 2009.
Hunter was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the 108th and 109th Congress. Hunter sought the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States for 2008, but his campaign failed to attract significant voters or delegates in early primary and caucus states, and he dropped out after the Nevada Republican caucuses.
He was succeeded as Representative for the 52nd district by his son, Duncan D. Hunter.
Hunter was born in Riverside, California to Lola L. (née Young) and Robert Olin Hunter. He graduated from Rubidoux High School in Riverside in 1966. He attended the University of Montana from 1966 to 1967, and then briefly the University of California, Santa Barbara, before being commissioned into the United States Army in 1969.
He served in South Vietnam from 1970 to 1971 during the Vietnam War in the Army Rangers' 75th Ranger Regiment, attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He participated in 24 helicopter assaults as well as in a small-number of night-time reconnaissance patrols. He held the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Bronze Star,Air Medal, and service ribbons such as the Vietnam Service Medal. He has said, "I didn't do anything special in the U.S. Army, but I served with very special soldiers I will never forget."
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Earl Dodge
Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. (December 24, 1932 – November 7, 2007) was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado.
Dodge was born in Revere, Massachusetts on December 24, 1932., and joined the Prohibition Party at age 19. He was appointed Chairman of the Prohibition Party in 1979 while the party was operating under the name of the National Statesmen Party; the party name was re-instated following the 1980 election.
In addition to his work with the Prohibition Party, Dodge was active in various other temperance organizations, as well as the Right to Life movement, and in several political memorabilia collecting organizations. In his later years, Dodge began to make a living producing political items.
The following is a list of his candidacies:
Dodge was waiting to board a flight en route from Denver International Airport to Pennsylvania, when he suddenly collapsed. Doctors confirmed it was cardiac arrhythmia. He died on November 7, 2007.
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Ed Henry
Edward "Ed" Henry is the senior White House correspondent for Fox News Channel, and is based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. He was born in Queens, New York and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
In 1995, Henry earned a bachelor's degree in English from Siena College in Loudonville, New York; he is a 2011-2012 member of the college Board of Associate Trustees. He began his career working with Jack Anderson. Henry covered Capitol Hill for Roll Call for eight years, writing that newspaper’s Heard on the Hill column, and has been a contributing editor at Washingtonian and in 2003 began providing political analysis for The WMAL Morning News and The Chris Core Show on 630 WMAL (ABC affiliate).
After covering the White House for CNN since March 2006, Henry was elevated to a senior position in December 2008. He was one of three CNN correspondents at the White House, along with Dan Lothian and Brianna Keilar; Henry was the sole senior correspondent.
On June 20, 2011, it was announced that Henry was leaving his position with CNN to become the Chief White House Correspondent for FOX News Channel. CNN insiders said that network management had already told Henry that his contract would not be renewed.
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Edgar Whitcomb
Edgar Doud Whitcomb (born November 6, 1917) was the 43rd Governor of Indiana.
Whitcomb was born on November 6, 1917 in Hayden, Indiana, the second child and first son of John Whitcomb and Louise Doud Whitcomb. An outgoing and athletic youth, he was a member of his high school basketball team. He entered Indiana University in 1939 to study law, but quit school to join the military at the outbreak of World War II.
He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1940 and was deployed to the Pacific Theater. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1941 and made an aerial navigator. He served two tours of duty in the Philippines and was promoted to Second Lieutenant. During the Battle of the Philippines[disambiguation needed], Whitcomb's base was overrun; he was captured by the Japanese and was beaten and tortured by his captors, but was able to escape. Recaptured a few days later, he escaped a second time and was hunted for several more days but was able to evade his pursuers. He escaped by swimming all night through shark-infested waters to an island unoccupied by the Japanese army. He made contact with the Filipino resistance and fought with them for two years, losing his vision in one eye, severe hearing loss, and injuring his back in the progress. He was eventually able to secure passage to China under an assumed name where he made contact with the United States Army and was repatriated in December 1943. He wrote a book about his experience entitled Escape from Corregidor, published in 1958. He was discharged from active duty in 1946, though he remained in the reserve military forces until 1977 holding the rank of colonel.
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Elaine Brown
Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther leader who is based in Oakland, California. She is a former chairperson of the Black Panther Party. Brown briefly ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice.
On December 28, 2007, Elaine Brown renounced her affiliation with the Green Party and her bid for Presidency.
Brown grew up in the ghetto of North Philadelphia, with a single, working mother and an absent father. Despite desperate poverty, Brown’s mother worked to provide for Elaine’s private schooling, music lessons, and nice clothing. As a young woman, Elaine had few African-American friends but spent most of her time with her white friends. After graduating from Philadelphia High School for Girls, she studied at Temple University for less than a semester. After withdrawing from Temple Brown moved to Los Angeles, California to try being a professional songwriter.
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Elizabeth Prann
Elizabeth Prann is a reporter for the Fox News Channel. As an Atlanta-based correspondent, she covers general and breaking news in the Southeastern United States. During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, she reported extensively on the scene. Prann previously worked from July 2008 to January 2010 as a reporter, fill-in anchor and producer for the Panama City affiliate of NBC, WJHG.
She first worked for Fox News as a production assistant for On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren from 2006 to 2008. In that capacity, Prann played a significant role in the launch of Gretawire.com; creating podcasts and developing content for the website. She joined Fox News as a correspondent in February 2010.
Prann received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida, where she was a member of the women's lacrosse team and the Delta Gamma sorority.
Prann married Texas Rangers reliever Darren O'Day on November 20, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta, GA.
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Ellen Ratner
Ellen Ratner (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is a news analyst on the Fox News Channel and appears on The Strategy Room and The Long and Short of It. She is also White House Correspondent and Bureau Chief for the Talk Radio News Service, covering the White House and is heard on over 400 radio stations across the US. Her brothers are New York City-based developer Bruce Ratner and attorney Michael Ratner.
She is the author of Ready, Set, Talk! A Guide to Getting Your Message Heard by Millions on Talk Radio, Talk Television, and Talk Internet (2006), 101 Ways to Get Your Progressive Ideas on Talk Radio (1997), and The Other Side of the Family: A Book for Recovery from Abuse, Incest and Neglect (1990).
Ratner attended Goddard College and, for a Masters in Education, Harvard University.
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Ellis Henican
Ellis Henican is a columnist at Newsday and AM New York as well as a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of "Stormy" on the Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021.
Henican's award-winning newspaper column—a personal, opinionated look at the news of the day—puts him in the middle of politics, business, crime, race and more than a little tabloid silliness. One day, he is writing from the campaign trail. The next, he's digging into a scandal in New York or poking fun at some self-important celebrity. Before taking on his current assignment, Henican wrote Newsday's subway column, leading the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for covering the 14th Street – Union Square (New York City Subway) train wreck.
In recent years, Henican has built a strong presence on TV and radio, appearing on most of the major broadcast and cable networks. He is in his eleventh year at the Fox News Channel, where he appears frequently on The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Watch,Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and many of the network's other top programs. He also fills in as guest host on network shows. At Fox, Henican is known for his lively take on the news and for dissecting complex issues in an engaging way. He has been a key part of network's coverage of campaign 2008, the Iraq war and most other major stories since 1999. Henican's early television experience included co-hosting a weekly transit program on NY1, New York's all-news channel. His weekly "Culture Clash" segments—an irreverent look at television, movies and pop-culture trends - were a popular daytime feature on the USA Network.
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Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling (born March 2, 1963) is an American television personality who specializes in financial news and political commentary. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television. He was described as "relentlessly upbeat", "hard-charging" and "cheerful" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bolling graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He attended Duke University after graduating from Rollins. Bolling was drafted in the 22nd round of the 1984 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Eric and his wife Adrienne have a son, Eric Chase.
Bolling was a commodities trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange. He specialized in trading natural gas, crude oil, gold, and other commodities.
After serving five years on the Board Of Directors at the NYMEX (now CME Group), Bolling became a strategic adviser to the Exchange's Board of Directors. He was included in Trader Monthly Top 100 in 2005 and 2006. Bolling was the recipient of the Maybach Man of the Year Award at the Trader Monthly Awards, January 17, 2007.
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Eric Chester
Eric Thomas Chester (born 6 August 1943) is an American author, socialist political activist, and former economics professor.
Born in New York City, he is the son of Harry (a UAW economist) and Alice (a psychiatrist née Fried) Chester. Both parents were active socialists from Vienna, opposing the rise of fascism and nazism.
Chester was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) while at the University of Michigan in the 1960s, when he opposed the war in Vietnam. In the spring of 1965 he was among those answering the call of the southern civil rights movement, going to Alabama to demonstrate against the federal government's support of Alabama's segregationist policies. Later that summer he once again answered the call, going to Jackson, Mississippi in support of people struggling against the segregationist policies of Mississippi and the federal government. He spent 10 days in the Hinds County, Mssissippi jail. In October, 1965 he was arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan as part of one of the first acts of civil disobedience against the American government's warfare against the people of Viet Nam. He was a member of New American Movement in the 1970s, and has been a member of the Socialist Party USA since 1980. He helped organize the faculty union while teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is currently a member of the National Writers Union (UAW), an active member in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Socialist Party of Massachusetts, and the Socialist Party USA, and was the Socialist Party USA’s candidate for Vice President in 1996. The 1996 Socialist Party USA presidential ticket of Mary Cal Hollis and Chester received 4,765 votes. He campaigned for the SP's Presidential nomination for the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections, but lost to David McReynolds, Walt Brown and Brian Moore, respectively. He twice ran for Congress from Massachusetts's First Congressional District, in 2002 and 2006.
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Eric Shawn
Eric Shawn (born March 12, 1957) is an American television news reporter for the Fox News Channel.
Shawn was born in New York City, the son of Gilbert Shawn, a former Army lieutenant colonel, and Melba Rae, a soap opera actress best known for her role on Search for Tomorrow.
He currently co-hosts the Sunday morning edition of Fox News Live with Jamie Colby, he also has worked as a correspondent, for the network, at the United Nations. His reporting of the UN included the Oil-for-Food Programme, which he later wrote a book about, entitled The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World.
Before joining Fox News Channel, Shawn worked for Fox’s affiliate news service, FOX News Edge. During his time there, he covered the Unabomber arrest, the Gulf War, the 1992 Clinton campaign and the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. On September 24, 2010, Shawn sat down and interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Prior to his stint at FOX News Edge, Shawn was a reporter for WNYW (FOX) and WPIX in New York.
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Eugene Puryear
Eugene Puryear (born February 28, 1986 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American activist who was the vice presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Puryear studied at Howard University as well as a leading activist with the anti-war ANSWER coalition and has helped organize large protests against the Israeli blockade of Gaza. He also writes for the PSL's newspaper and journal. Puryear and the ANSWER coalition were involved in the campaign to free the Jena 6. As a freshman at Howard in 2005, Puryear was interviewed by the Washington Post as an "activist-in-training" and cited his engagement with activism against gentrification, racism, the US occupation of Iraq and other issues. In November 2010, RT interviewed Puryear regarding socialism in the United States.
In 2008, Puryear ran on the Party for Socialism and Liberation's ticket alongside presidential nominee Gloria La Riva. The La Riva/Puryear slate was on the ballot in six states and received 6,818 total votes.
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Evan Bayh
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III (pronounced /ˈbaɪ/ BY; born December 26, 1955) is a lawyer, advisor and former Democratic politician who served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997.
Bayh first held public office as the Secretary of State of Indiana, elected in 1986. He held the position for only two years before being elected Governor where he successfully advocated for state welfare reform, tax cuts, and fiscal discipline. He left his office after completing two terms and briefly took a job lecturing at Indiana University Kelley School of Business, before being elected to the U.S. Senate seat once held by his father, Birch Bayh.
On February 15, 2010, Bayh announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. After leaving the Senate, he became a partner with the law firm McGuireWoods in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. He also serves as a senior adviser with Apollo Global Management. He was hired as a Fox News contributor in March 2011.
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Frank Hanly
James Franklin Hanly (April 4, 1863 – August 1, 1920) was a United States politician who served as a congressman from Indiana from 1895 until 1897, and was the 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909. He was the founder of Hanly's Flying Squadron, which advocated prohibition nationally and played an important role in raising awareness about the effect of alcohol and arousing public support for prohibition.
During his term as governor he successfully advocated the passage of a local-option liquor law, which led the majority of Indiana's counties to ban liquor sales. His other achievements included banning gambling, fighting political corruption, and adjusting state agencies to operate on a non-partisan basis. He left office and the Republican Party and became an active and vocal prohibitionist. He was an unsuccessful Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1916 election.
Hanly was born in a log cabin near St. Joseph, Champaign County, Illinois on April 4, 1863, the youngest of the seven children of Elijah and Anna Calton Hanly. His mother taught him to read at home, even though she was blind. As a young man he lived for a while on a farm in the nearby village of Homer. In Homer he attended the Liberty rural school for one year where he became known as a formidable debater. At age sixteen he left home to attended the common schools and the Eastern Illinois Normal School at Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, until 1879. He worked odd jobs to pay for his schooling, and often slept in barns. That year he graduated he moved to Warren County, Indiana where he taught in the state public schools from 1881 to 1889.
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Frank McEnulty
Frank Edward McEnulty (born 1956) is an American businessperson and politician. In the 2008 presidential election, he was both the Vice Presidential nominee of the Reform Party of the United States of America and the presidential nominee of the New American Independent Party. His running mate was Bobby Klingler. In total, he received 833 votes in the presidential election for his Presidential candidacy and 481 for his Vice-Presidential candidacy. [1]
McEnulty is the President and Chief Financial Officer of Our Castle Homes, a residential building company which develops neighborhoods.
McEnulty is also President of I Made A Movie, Inc, www.imadeamovie.com and the President of more than a dozen other small, entrepreneurial enterprises.
McEnulty is Catholic and a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus.
In 2010, McEnulty resurfaced to criticize Barack Obama, saying: “By the time the election was over, many people were viewing him as the second coming and no one can live up to those expectations. Unfortunately, he has also failed to live up to even more down to earth expectations as well, which is why I believe so many people are becoming more and more disenchanted with him.”
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Fred Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson (born Freddie Dalton Thompson; August 19, 1942), is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. Thompson, a Republican, served in the United States Senate representing Tennessee from 1994 to 2003.
Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.
As an actor, Thompson has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch.
In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the Republican nomination for president in the 2008 election, winning 11 delegates before dropping out of the race in January 2008. In 2009 he returned to acting with a guest appearance on the ABC television series Life on Mars and in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Trial.
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Fred Upton
Frederick Stephen "Fred" Upton (born April 23, 1953) is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district, serving since 1987. He is a member of the Republican Party and Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The district, based in Kalamazoo, stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state.Fred Upton is also the wealthiest Michigan congressmen with a net worth of $16,288,608.[citation needed] Upton favors the Keystone XL extension stating it will lower gasoline prices, while others disagree stating the environmental risks are too high.
Upton was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, the son of Elizabeth B. (née Vial) and Stephen Edward Upton. Upton earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan in 1975. He was a sports editor at The Michigan Daily and thought he might someday cover the Chicago Cubs. He served on the congressional staff of U.S. Congressman David Stockman (R-MI) from 1976 to 1980. He was in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, while David Stockman was OMB Director.
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Frederick Van Nuys
Frederick Van Nuys (April 16, 1874 – January 25, 1944) was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from the predecessor of the now Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Shelbyville moving shortly afterward to Anderson. From 1906 to 1910 he was prosecuting attorney of Madison County and was a member of the Indiana Senate from 1913 to 1916, serving as president pro tempore in 1915. He moved to Indianapolis in 1916 and continued the practice of law; he was United States attorney for the district of Indiana from 1920 to 1922.
Frederick Van Nuys was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1932, soundly defeating longtime incumbent James Eli Watson. He was narrowly reelected in 1938, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on a farm near Vienna, Virginia in 1944. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (76th Congress) and a member of the Committee on the Judiciary (77th and 78th Congresses). Interment was in East Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana.
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Gale Norton
Gale Ann Norton (born March 11, 1954) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position.
Norton was born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Wichita and Thornton, Colorado, and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Denver in 1975 and earned her Juris Doctor degree with honors from that university's College of Law in 1978. She divorced her first husband, Harold Everett Reed, when he was publicly reported as gay by the Denver local gay newspaper, OutFront. She is currently married to John Hughes. In the late 1970s, she was a member of the Libertarian Party and was nearly selected as its national director in 1980. Norton was influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand, and has been associated with a number of groups in the "wise use" or "free-market environmentalist" movement, such as the Property and Environmental Research Center [2], of which she is a fellow. She also worked as Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and, from 1979 to 1983, as a Senior Attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
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Gene Amondson
Gene Amondson, (October 15, 1943– July 20, 2009) was a landscape painter, woodcarver, Christian minister and prohibition activist who was the 2004 US presidential candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party (Concerns of People Party) and the nominee of the unified party in 2008.
Amondson was known for his anti-Alcohol activism and reenactments of sermons by preacher Billy Sunday. He was an active member in the community of Vashon Island, Washington, and was described as a "colorful" character. During press inquiries, he often repeated such prohibition slogans as: "Prohibition was America's greatest 13 years" and "drinking responsibly is like teaching a pig to eat with a spoon. Can't happen." He died in 2009 after suffering a stroke.
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Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American attorney, journalist, author, reporter, and talk show host. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large and appears regularly on Fox News Channel.
Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman), a waitress, and the late Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver. Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican of Spanish ancestry, and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York. He has four siblings: Wilfredo, Sharon, Irene, and Craig.
Rivera is an alumnus of the University of Arizona, where he played varsity lacrosse as goalie. From September 1961 to May 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College, where he was a member of the rowing team. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969, did postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania that same year.
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Gloria La Riva
Gloria Estela La Riva (born August 13, 1954, in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American politician associated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She was the party's 2008 presidential candidate, and was also vying for the nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party in California, but lost the bid to Ralph Nader. La Riva launched her presidential campaign in January 2008, with Eugene Puryear running for vice president.
La Riva was first a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party, although this was an unofficial run as basically a placeholder on a few state ballots. She had also been the Workers World vice-presidential candidate in the elections of 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2000. She joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation in its split from the Workers World Party in 2004.
La Riva was also the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Governor of California in 1994, receiving 72,774 votes (0.9%). She ran again in the 1998 gubernatorial election, capturing 59,218 votes (0.71%).
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Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld (born (1964-09-12)September 12, 1964) is an American television personality, political satirist, humorist, magazine editor and blogger. Gutfeld is the host of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel. He is also one of five co-hosts/panelists on Fox News political talk-show The Five, which debuted on July 11, 2011. Gutfeld identifies politically as libertarian. Gutfeld (2009): "I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing."
Gutfeld was born and raised in San Mateo, California. He attended Junípero Serra High School and the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Elena Moussa, whom he met in London. He previously lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania for approximately ten years.
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in English, he interned at The American Spectator, as an assistant to R. Emmett Tyrrell. He then got his first full-time job as a staff writer at Prevention magazine. In 1995, he became a staff writer at Men's Health.
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Gregg Jarrett
Gregory Walter "Gregg" Jarrett (born April 7, 1955) is an American news anchor for Fox News Channel.
Joining the network in November 2002, he co-anchors weekend newscasts with Julie Banderas and serves as a substitute anchor weekdays. He graduated magna cum laude from Claremont Men's College in 1977 and received a law degree in 1980 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He was a defense attorney in San Francisco for several years with the law firm of Gordon & Rees LLP.
Prior to Fox News, Jarrett worked at MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent. While at MSNBC, he covered many stories including the September 11th Attacks, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election Controversy.
Jarrett also worked at Court TV (the network now known as truTV) for eight years, serving as the anchor of Prime Time Justice, in addition to covering many different trials on the network, and hosting the network's nationally syndicated half-hour broadcast magazine show, Inside America’s Courts. He was a main anchor for the O.J. Simpson double murder trial on location in Los Angeles in 1995.
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Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954) is an American commentator and television personality on the Fox News Channel, where she hosts On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren. A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor.
Van Susteren was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and is of Dutch, French, Irish, Icelandic and German ancestry on her paternal side. Van Susteren's father, Urban Van Susteren, an elected judge, was a longtime friend of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, and a campaign strategist for him, although Urban later broke with him.
Van Susteren's sister, Lise, is a forensic psychiatrist in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2006, Lise was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Her brother, Dirk Van Susteren, was a journalist and long-time editor of the Vermont Sunday magazine, jointly published, until folding in 2008, by the Rutland Herald and the Barre-Montpelier-Times Argus.
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Gretchen Carlson
Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American television personality who currently co-hosts the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends along with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. An accomplished violinist and winner of the 1989 Miss America Pageant while representing her native Minnesota, Carlson graduated from Stanford University before embarking on a career as a television journalist. Gaining experience as anchor and reporter for several local network affiliates before joining CBS News as correspondent in 2000, she later became co-host of the Saturday Early Show. In 2005 Carlson moved to Fox News and became the regular co-host of Fox & Friends a year later. Carlson continues to work with the Miss America pageant and serves as a national celebrity spokesperson for March of Dimes.
Carlson was raised in Anoka, Minnesota and graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School, where she was the 1984 class valedictorian. One of her childhood nannies was Michele Bachmann, the future Republican congresswoman. Growing up, Carlson was an accomplished violinist winning numerous local and national competitions. She performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra as an 8th grader and was the Concertmistress for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony. She spent five summers studying at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Winner of several Concerto Competitions at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, she was also featured as a soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
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Harris Faulkner
Harris Faulkner is an American newscaster for Fox News Channel. She is the Anchor of Fox Report Weekend. She previously presented Fox News Live headline updates during prime-time weekdays. She has been covering breaking news between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m ET. She also fills in for Shepard Smith as a substitute anchor on The Fox Report weekdays, and she anchors Fox News Extra segments that air on the international feed of Fox News. She also appears as guest-panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Faulkner is also a motivational speaker and works for various charitable causes.
She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, at Fort McPherson, where her father was a United States Army aviator.
Faulkner studied business economics and mass communications at the University of California Santa Barbara. After graduation she worked as a junior accountant before becoming a freelance writer for L.A. Weekly, contributing as a business writer. She started in TV at KCOP, Channel 13 in Los Angeles, then moved to Greenville, North Carolina to work at WNCT-TV, then Kansas City's WDAF-TV Channel 4. She lasted in Kansas City eight years and had a falling out with management after anchoring the primetime newscast between 1992 and 2000, and then the Twin Cities' KSTP-TV. In the Twin Cities she became part of an evening anchor team, helping to boost the ratings significantly. She then moved on to the US national stage as part of the Fox News cable channel.
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Harry Stewart New
Harry Stewart New (December 31, 1858 – May 9, 1937) was a U.S. politician, journalist, and Spanish-American War veteran.
Harry Stewart New was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 31, 1858, the son of John C. New and his wife, Melissa (Beeler) New. He attended Butler University before going to work with the Indianapolis Journal where he was a reporter, editor, part owner, and publisher from 1878 to 1903. He served in the Indiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900 and served in the Spanish-American War as captain and assistant adjutant general of the 7th Army Corps. He was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1900 to 1912, serving as chairman from 1907 to 1908, and later engaged in the stone quarrying and construction business.
New got back into politics when he was elected to the United States Senate in 1916, defeating incumbent John W. Kern. In the Senate, he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories and the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions. He was also a "wet" or an anti-prohibitionist, and in August 1919 introduced early legislation proposing an independent United States Air Force.
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Heather Nauert
Heather Nauert (born January 27, 1970) is an American news anchor for Fox News Channel. On February 1, 2009, Nauert began co-anchoring the newscasts Good Day Early Call and Good Day New York Wake Up with co-anchor Steve Lacy from 4:30-7 a.m. weekday mornings, for Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW in New York City.
She continues to anchor on Fox News Channel, as well as for The Strategy Room on FoxNews.com while adding the 2 1/2 hours of morning broadcast television in New York City.
Nauert was the co-host of the weekday edition of The Big Story, alongside John Gibson, on the Fox News Channel. She has worked previously as a government affairs consultant on health insurance, tax and Social Security issues.
Rejoining the network in 2007, Nauert held positions at a number of different news organization, including ABC News from 2005 to 2007 as a general assignment correspondent where she contributed to World News Tonight, Good Morning America and Nightline. While there, she received an Emmy nomination for her work on the special series, "13 Around the World."
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Henry Smith Lane
Henry Smith Lane (February 24, 1811 – June 18, 1881) was a United States Representative, Senator, and the 13th Governor of Indiana; he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana, having made plans to resign the office should his party take control of the Indiana General Assembly and elect him to the United States Senate. He held that office for only two days, and was known for his opposition to slavery. A Whig until the party collapsed, he supported compromise with the south. He became an early leader in the Republican Party starting in 1856 serving as the president of the first party convention, delivering its keynote address, and was influential in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. With the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, he became a full-fledged abolitionist, and in the Senate he was a pro-Union advocate and a strong supporter of the war effort to end the rebellion.
Henry Smith Lane was born near Sharpsburg, Kentucky on February 24, 1811 the son of James H. and Mary Higgins Lane. He received a classical education from private tutors and studied law; he was admitted to the bar in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in 1832. He moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1835 working at the Bank of Indiana and opening a law office, taking mainly criminal cases.
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Herb Kohl
Herbert H. "Herb" Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is the senior United States Senator from Wisconsin and a member of the Democratic Party. He is also a philanthropist and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks National Basketball Association (NBA) team. He has announced he will not seek re-election in 2012.
Kohl was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Washington High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1956 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1958. While an undergraduate, he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. Between 1958 and 1964, Kohl was a member of the United States Army Reserve.
After finishing graduate school, Kohl worked as an investor in real estate and the stock market, eventually spinning off his own company, Kohl Investments, to manage these assets. He and his brother became heir to a family-owned chain that included 50 grocery stores and several department stores, pharmacies, and liquor stores. In 1970, Kohl was named President of Kohl's and he helped to oversee the merger of his corporation with BATUS Inc. in 1972. Kohl stayed on as an executive until 1979. Before his election to the Senate, Kohl helped build his family-owned business, Kohl's grocery and department stores. He served as president from 1970 until the sale of the corporation in 1979.
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Ira Joy Chase
Ira Joy Chase (December 7, 1834 – May 11, 1895) was a veteran of the American Civil War, a leading member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a prominent Church of Christ evangelist, and the 22nd Governor of Indiana between November 23, 1891 – January 9, 1893.
Ira Joy Chase was born in 1834 in New York, the son of Benjamin and Lordina Mix Chase. His parents were poor, and spent much of his early life moving from place to place. He was educated at Medina Academy where he received a common education, and then attended the Milan Seminary to be trained as a minister. In 1855 his family moved to Barrington, Illinois. There he and his father took a job driving wagon teams in the Chicago stockyards. He soon found work as a teacher, where he met Rhoda Jane Castle. He married her and had three children before he joined the Union army at the start of the American Civil War. His health was frequently poor during the war, so he was removed from front-line duty and served as a drill instructor to prepare and train new recruits. His health still worsened and he was forced to spend several months in a military hospital. His wife heard of his situation and left their Illinois home to be with him in Tennessee. She was not permitted to remain in the hospital because she was civilian, so she joined the army as a nurse. As his health recovered, he returned to duty as a chaplain.
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James Eli Watson
James Eli Watson (November 2, 1864 – July 29, 1948) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Indiana. He was the Senate's second official majority leader. While an article published by the Senate (see References) gives his year of birth as 1862, this is most probably incorrect.
He was born in Winchester, Indiana, one of six children. His father was a lawyer, a Republican state legislator, and owner-editor of the local newspaper, the Winchester Herald. At the age of twelve, Watson accompanied his father to the 1876 Republican National Convention. Watson attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and graduated in 1886. At DePauw he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1886 and joined his father's law firm.
Watson campaigned for Republican candidates throughout the 1880s and moved to Rushville, Indiana in 1893. He was elected as U.S. Representative from Indiana's 4th congressional district in 1894 to the 54th Congress (1895–1897), defeating the incumbent Democratic William S. Holman, in part by speaking German, the language of many of his constituents.
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James Pinkerton
James Pinkerton (born March 11, 1958) is a columnist, author, and political analyst. A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.
Since his time in government he has become a columnist for Newsday, a regular panelist on the Fox News program Fox News Watch, and a regular conservative contributor to The Huffington Post. He is also a senior fellow at both the Free Enterprise Fund and the New America Foundation, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, and a contributing editor of The American Conservative and USA Today. He frequently appears on Bloggingheads.tv, often in video discussions with David Corn and other media personalities.
In a discussion with economist, Glenn Loury, Pinkerton described his political ideology as "Hamiltonian". He favors a robust US industrial policy that would stimulate industry and calls himself a "big government libertarian".
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James Whitcomb
James Whitcomb (December 1, 1795 – October 4, 1852) was a Democratic United States Senator and the eighth Governor of Indiana. As governor during the Mexican-American War, he oversaw the formation and deployment of the state's levies. He led the movement to replace the state constitution and played an important role at the convention to institute a law that prevented the government from taking loans in response the current fiscal crisis in Indiana. By skillfully guiding the state through its bankruptcy, Whitcomb is usually credited as being one of the most successful of Indiana's governors. He was elected to the United States Senate after his term as governor but died of kidney disease only two years later.
James Whitcomb was born in Rochester, Vermont on December 1, 1795, the fourth of ten children of John W. and Lydia Parmenter Whitcomb. In 1806 his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where they farmed land. Whitcomb loved to read books, but his father would often discourage him from reading, believing that his son needed to take up manual labor to have a successful future. Instead, young Whitcomb taught school and attended Transylvania University in Kentucky, where he studied law and adopted many southern customs. After returning to the north, he became known for his "fastidious dress and elegant manners", and was often criticized during his life for being a fop. Whitcomb loved music, and was able to play many different instruments, but his favorite was the violin. He became well known for his talented playing and would often dance, sing, and play for friends throughout his life.
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Jamie Colby
Jamie Nell Colby is an American national news correspondent and anchor for Fox News Channel (FNC). She hosts America's News Headquarters along with Kelly Wright on Saturdays at 1pm eastern and Eric Shawn on Sundays at 10am eastern.
Colby has worked for Fox News since July 2003 as National News Correspondent and Anchor. Prior to joining FOX News Channel, Colby was a correspondent for CNN and served as an anchor and reporter for CBS News including fill-in anchor for CBS "Up to the Minute". She was also an anchor for WPIX/WB-11 New York, a reporter at WNYW FOX 5 New York, and a correspondent/co-anchor on FOX News' WebMD TV. Colby is an attorney admitted to practice law in New York, California, Florida and the District of Columbia. .
During her journalism career, Colby has received many honors, including the Edward R. Murrow National Award in 2002 for her coverage of the September 11 attacks; the Gracie Allen Award for investigative reporting in 2000, and the Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications, She was also named Television Week's "Rising News Star To Watch."
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Janice Dean
Janice Dean is a Canadian weather personality on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. She also substitutes for Fox News Live headline anchors when needed. She is known for her nickname, "Janice Dean, the Weather Machine", coined by evening Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. She has also been called "Janice Dean the Weather Queen".
She began her career in Ottawa at CHEZ-FM, where she was a morning show co-host, reporter, and disc jockey. In 1997, she was an on-camera weather host at CBOT Television. Dean received an honors diploma from Algonquin College, in Radio and Television Broadcasting.
Before joining Fox in January 2004, Dean was the news editor and entertainment reporter for Imus in the Morning. Prior to that, Dean was a weekend on-air traffic reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. Previously, she was on CHUM Limited in Ottawa where she held numerous positions such as a morning news anchor for Breakfast @ the New RO, producer and host of The Broad Perspective on CFRA and an anchor for KOOL-FM. From 1998 to 2001, Dean hosted various radio programs in Houston at affiliates such as KODA-FM, KKBQ-FM and KLDE-FM. Dean is also an occasional guest on the Fox News show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
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Jehmu Greene
Jehmu Greene (born June 22, 1972) is an American political commentator, and social justice organizer. Greene was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Austin, Texas. Greene is the daughter of Liberian immigrants.
Greene co-founded Define American in June 2011 with Jose Antonio Vargas, Jake Brewer, and Alicia Menendez. Define American seeks to elevate the conversation on immigration reform.
In 2010, Greene was hired as a contributor by Fox News Channel.
Throughout her career, she has worked with the media to build high-profile social justice campaigns. A commentator on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and elsewhere, Greene served as the first African-American president of the Rock the Vote organization from 2000-2005 where membership grew from 1,500 to 1 million, 1.4 million new voters were registered, over 200 celebrities volunteered their support and youth voter turnout in the 2004 elections was achieved.
From 2009-2010, Greene was president of Women’s Media Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit women’s advocacy organization founded in 2005 by writers/activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem.
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Jenna Lee
Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Lee (born May 30, 1980) is an American journalist and anchor on the Fox News Channel, where she co-hosts Happening Now with Jon Scott. Lee previously co-anchored Fox Business Network's early-morning business news program, Fox Business Morning, with Connell McShane.
Lee is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Global & International Studies with emphasis on politics and socioeconomics. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Columbia University. She had a double major in college and worked 30 hours a week during this time. Lee played Women's Varsity college softball at UC Santa Barbara in the 1999 season while in college.
Lee's father Bob Lee was an NFL quarterback who played in two Super Bowls and threw a touchdown pass in Super Bowl XI. Her brother Zac Lee in 2011 signed as an undrafted free agent backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. He previously played for the University of Nebraska for the 2010 season, after major surgery in the offseason, and had led the Cornhuskers to the 2009 Big 12 North Division title and a win in the Holiday Bowl. Lee's grandfather Paul Kern Lee was a war correspondent for the Associated Press in San Francisco.
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Jennifer Griffin
Jennifer Griffin (born 1969) is a Fox News correspondent, currently reporting from The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. as national security correspondent. Prior to her reassignment (on March 12, 2007), she had reported from Jerusalem for the network since joining it in 1999.
She is credited with conducting a rare interview with Ariel Sharon and reported on Sharon's hospitalization. Griffin also provided Fox News' coverage of the expulsion of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip.
Griffin has reported from Phuket, Thailand following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent Asian tsunami. She also played a part in the release of fellow Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig from captivity in Gaza in 2006.
Prior to joining Fox News, Griffin covered the Middle Eastern affairs for the Associated Press, National Public Radio and U.S. News and World Report. Previously, she reported for The Sowetan newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered Nelson Mandela's release from imprisonment and numerous other moments in South Africa's transition away from apartheid.
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Jim Angle
James Leslie Angle, Jr. (born 14 September 1946 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American journalist and television reporter for Fox News.
He has a Masters Degree from the University of Texas and served in the US Military in Germany and Vietnam.
Joining Fox News in 1996, Angle is a nightly contributor to the show Special Report with Bret Baier. In addition, he regularly is a substitute host for the Friday edition of the program, giving Bret Baier a chance to appear on Fox News Sunday as a panelist. Angle was named Chief Washington Correspondent for Fox News Channel in 2005.
Prior to joining Fox, he was a correspondent for CNN as a political correspondent and ABC News covering economics (receiving the “Excellence in Financial Journalism” award twice). He was Senior White House Correspondent for National Public Radio during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. He was awarded the "Merriman Smith Memorial Award" in 2001 and 2003. Columnist Nat Hentoff praised Angle as "One of the most fair, incisive, and informed investigative reporters on the Washington scene." Angle is married to Patrice Pisinski, Director of the Office of Technology Advancement at the United States Department of Energy.
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Jim Gilmore
James Stuart "Jim" Gilmore III (born October 6, 1949) is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, former 68th Governor of Virginia, and a member of the Republican Party. A native Virginian, Gilmore studied at the University of Virginia, and then served in the U.S. Army as a counterintelligence agent. He later was elected to public office as a county prosecutor, as the Attorney General of Virginia from 1994 to 1998, and as the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002.
Gilmore campaigned for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination until July 2007, when he became the first major Republican candidate to leave the race. Gilmore was nominated as the Republican candidate for Virginia's United States Senate seat being vacated by John Warner. In the November 2008 election, Gilmore lost to his Democratic opponent Mark Warner.
Gilmore was born in Richmond, Virginia to Margaret Evelyn (née Kandle), a church secretary, and James Stuart Gilmore, Jr., a grocery store butcher. He graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1971. Gilmore associated himself with the University's College Republicans chapter, and the Jefferson Literary & Debating Society.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronunciation: /ˈdʒoʊsɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942) is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation, and is the 15th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
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Joe Hogsett
Joe Hogsett is an American attorney and politician who currently serves as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Hogsett is the former Secretary of State of Indiana, and chair of the Indiana Democratic Party. He has also served in many positions associated with former Senator and Governor Evan Bayh.
Hogsett was born in Rushville, Indiana in 1956. He went to Indiana University and Butler University, earning his degree in law from Indiana University. He went on to serve as a clerk for the Monroe County Superior Court and many civic and charitable positions.
In 1986 Hogsett served as campaign manager for Evan Bayh's successful bid for Secretary of State of Indiana. Bayh tapped Hogsett to serve in the position of deputy Secretary of State upon his victory. Hogsett then managed Bayh's successful campaign for Governor of Indiana two years later and was appointed by Bayh to the office of secretary of state that he had vacated. He went on to win election to the office in his own right and served until December 1994, when he declined to run for re-election, instead choosing to run for Congress. As of 2012 he is the last Democrat to occupy the office of Indiana Secretary of State.
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Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Lieberman is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School. He was elected as a "reform Democrat" in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as Majority Leader. After an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980, he served as state Attorney General from 1983 to 1989. Lieberman defeated moderate Republican Lowell Weicker in 1988 to win election to the United States Senate and was re-elected in 1994 and 2000. In the 2000 United States presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for Vice President, running with presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 presidential election.
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Joe Schriner
Joe Schriner (born March 3, 1955) is an American politician and journalist. He has run as an independent candidate for President of the United States in four consecutive election cycles. He ran in 2000,2004,2008, and is running in 2012.
Schriner and his family have traveled some 82,000 campaign miles. Since 1991, he has done extensive cross-country research for an expansive set of position papers. Schriner has been featured in some 2,000 newspapers, 175 regional network TV news shows, and hundreds of radio shows. He has written three books: Back Road to the White House, America's Best Town and America's Best Town 2. Schriner bills himself as an "average Joe concerned parent from the Midwest."
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John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001).
Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Grace P. (née Larsen) and James Robert Ashcroft. His father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation, served as president of Evangel University from 1958–1974, and jointly as President of Central Bible College from 1958–1963. He later served as president of Valley Forge Christian College. His mother was a housewife whose parents immigrated to the United States from Norway.
Ashcroft went to school in Springfield, Missouri. He attended Yale University, where he was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity and St. Elmo Society, graduating in 1964. He received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1967.
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John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux ( /ˈbroʊ/; born March 1, 1944) is a former United States senator from Louisiana who served from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Breaux was born in Crowley, Louisiana, on March 1, 1944. He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now called the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in Lafayette in 1964 and from Louisiana State University Law School in Baton Rouge in 1967. After graduation, he practiced law, and then served as an assistant to U.S. Representative Edwin Edwards. He also is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.
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John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election. Towards the end of his single six-year term, he sought the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice-president, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Following Kerry's loss to incumbent President George W. Bush, Edwards began working full-time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC. Edwards launched a second bid for the Democratic nomination during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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John Layfield
John Charles Layfield (born November 29, 1966) is an American professional wrestler, a former commentator/host for mixed martial arts promotion Vyper Fight League and financial analyst for Fox News. Layfield is best known by his ring names, Bradshaw, John "Bradshaw" Layfield or JBL while working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was the longest reigning WWE Champion in SmackDown history with a reign lasting 280 days.
Layfield's main gimmick as John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) – a wealthy, gladhanding, big-mouthed, fiery-tempered businessman – was based on Layfield's real-life accomplishments as a stock market investor. Layfield is a regular panelist on Fox News Channel's The Cost of Freedom, has appeared on CNBC, and has written a best-selling book on financial planning called Have More Money Now. (ISBN 0-7434-6633-0). Layfield also hosts a weekend talk radio program, syndicated nationally by Talk Radio Network, in which he discusses his conservative political views. Layfield is also employed by Northeast Securities as its Senior Vice President.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel, and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
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John Mutz
John Massie Mutz (born 1935) is an American business leader and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Republican candidate for Governor and president of Lilly Endowment, one of America's largest family foundations.
Mutz is a graduate of Northwestern University, earning both a Bachelor's degree and Master's degrees in advertising and business management there.
Mutz has had a long business career including the management of a large group of Burger Chef restaurants and serving as president of PSI Energy, Indiana's largest utility.
In Indiana politics, he served as State Representative from 1967 to 1970, State Senator from 1971 to 1980 and as the 45th Lieutenant Governor, serving under Robert D. Orr from 1980 to 1988. He was defeated by Evan Bayh in the 1988 race for Indiana Governor.
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John Pettit
John Pettit (June 24, 1807 – January 17, 1877) was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana.
Born in Sackets Harbor, New York, he completed preparatory studies and admitted to the bar in 1831. He moved to Lafayette, Indiana where he commenced practice in 1838; he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1838-1839 and was United States district attorney from 1839 to 1843.
Pettit was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849); he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848. In 1850 he was a delegate to the Indiana state constitutional convention and a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Whitcomb and served from January 18, 1853, to March 3, 1855; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854.
While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-third Congress). During the Senate debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Pettit argued in favor of expanding slavery to Kansas, and famously said that Jefferson's idea (in the United States Declaration of Independence) that "all men are created equal" was not a "self-evident truth" but instead "is nothing more to me than a self-evident lie." The debate over Pettit's inflammatory words is credited with reviving Abraham Lincoln's interest in national politics.
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John Roberts
John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. He has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy in his jurisprudence.
Roberts grew up in northern Indiana and was educated in a private school before attending Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. After being admitted to the bar, he served as a law clerk for William Rehnquist before taking a position in the Attorney General's office during the Reagan Administration. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration and the George H. W. Bush administration in the Department of Justice and the Office of the White House Counsel, before spending fourteen years in private law practice. During this time, he argued thirty-nine cases before the Supreme Court.
In 2003, he was appointed as a judge of the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush, where he served until his nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Rehnquist died before Roberts's confirmation hearings, Bush renominated Roberts to fill the newly vacant center seat.
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John Tipton
John Shields Tipton (August 14, 1786 – April 5, 1839) was an American politician.
Tipton was born in what is now Sevier County, Tennessee. His father was killed by Native Americans. His great uncle, also named John, was a prominent man in the area. When he was an infant, his uncle's house was besieged by supporters of an attempt to create the 14th state in Northeastern Tennessee called the State of Franklin.
At the age of 17, Tipton moved to Harrison County, Indiana. In 1806 he married Martha Shields. He became a farmer. Fighting various Native American tribes, he commanded a militia unit of the Yellow Jackets in the Battle of Tippecanoe campaign in 1811, and served as Major in command of two companies of Indiana Rangers at Fort Vallonia during the War of 1812. When peace was declared, Tipton was promoted to Brigadier-General.
Tipton's marriage eventually fell apart and he was divorced in 1816. He eventually entered politics. He served as a member of the Indiana State House of Representatives from 1819 to 1823. During this time, he founded the town of Columbus, Indiana originally known as Tiptonia, he participated in commissions to establish a new state capital for Indiana and to set the boundaries between Indiana and Illinois. In 1823, he became the United States Indian agent for the Potawatomi and Miami tribes. Also a captain in the militia, Tipton was responsible for rounding up the uncooperative Potawatomi and forcibly moving them to Kansas in what became known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death. In 1825, he married again, this time he married Matilda Spencer, the daughter of Captain Spier Spencer who died at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
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Jon Scott
Jonathan Arthur "Jon" Scott (born November 7, 1958) is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.
Jon Scott was born in Denver, Colorado and graduated from Denver Lutheran High School. Afterward, he attended journalism school at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Scott is also a private pilot, who is rated to fly single engine airplanes. Scott and his wife Sharon live in Irvington, New York, and are the parents of four children. Sharon Scott is an executive at NBC. One son is a cadet at West Point in the Class of 2011. Jon Scott's older brother was an infantryman in the Vietnam War.
Scott began his career as a correspondent for KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, Missouri, a station owned and operated by Mizzou. Later, he was the weekday evening news anchor, weekend co-anchor and reporter for WPLG-TV (ABC) in Miami. He also worked as a reporter and bureau chief for KUSA-TV (NBC) in Denver. Beginning in 1988, Jon Scott was a reporter for the syndicated news program Inside Edition. From 1992–95, he was a correspondent for Dateline NBC. Scott served as the host the syndicated newsmagazine A Current Affair, and eventually joined the Fox News Channel in 1996. He is an avid watcher of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. On the night of May 1 - May 2, 2011 Jon Scott served as the studio anchor for Fox News' coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden. In a July, 2011 live interview he asked Bill Nye if newly discovered volcanoes on the moon were related to the climate change debate on Earth saying, "It's not like we've been up there burning fossil fuels." Nye replied that "volcanoes are not connected to burning fossil fuels."
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Jonathan Jennings
Jonathan Jennings (1784 – July 26, 1834) was the first Governor of Indiana and a nine-term congressman from Indiana. Born in Readington, New Jersey, he studied law with his brother before immigrating to Indiana in 1806 where he took part in land speculation. He became involved in a personal dispute with the Governor William Henry Harrison that led him to enter politics and set the tone for his early political career. He was elected as the Indiana Territory's delegate to Congress by dividing the pro-Harrison supporters and running as an anti-Harrison candidate. By 1812 he was the leader of the anti-slavery, anti-governor, and pro-statehood faction of the territorial government. He and his political allies triumphed in their goals and took control of the territorial assembly and dominated the affairs of the government after the resignation of Governor Harrison. At the Indiana Constitutional Convention, Jennings was elected President. He was behind the effort to have a ban on slavery constitutionalized and was for the creation of a weak executive branch in favor of a strong legislative branch.
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Jonathan Serrie
Jonathan Serrie has been an Atlanta-based correspondent for Fox News Channel since 2001. He joined the cable network in 1999, working for bureaus in Los Angeles and Seattle.
He covered Operation Allied Force from NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium; Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; and Kačanik, Kosovo. He was stationed in Uzbekistan during the initial phase of Operation Enduring Freedom and traveled into Afghanistan, where he covered the Taliban prison uprising at Kala-i-Jangi near Mazar-i-Sharif. He later traveled to Kabul to cover the establishment of the post-Taliban government.
Prior to Fox News, Serrie worked as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for WSB-TV (ABC) in Atlanta (1994–1999), WYFF-TV (NBC) in Greenville, SC (1989–1994), and WWSB-TV (ABC) in Sarasota, FL (1987–1989).
In 1987, Serrie graduated with a BA in English and political science from Emory University in Atlanta. He served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Emory Wheel.
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Jonathon Sharkey
Jonathon (originally John) Albert "The Impaler" Sharkey (born April 2, 1964) is an American professional wrestler and perennial candidate. He resides in Florida and initially attempted to run for President as a Republican in 2012. On August 24, 2011, he formally ended his presidential campaign, but states that he has "all intentions of running in 2020."
He formerly lived in Minnesota but moved to Florida in 2010. Sharkey has three living children, and a fourth child who is now deceased. He also has a grandson. Sharkey says that he has never dated anyone over 19 years old since 2006. Sharkey drinks his girlfriends' blood and one of his former girlfriends, Audrianna Foster, has claimed to be a vampire herself.
Sharkey began wrestling in 1988. He began his career with Larry Sharpe's WWA promotion, facing "Diamond Jim" Brady in a boxer vs. wrestler match. Following this, he worked with a number of other wrestling promoters including Rocky Johnson, father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He cites his greatest wrestling influences as Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat.
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Juan Williams
Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. He was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) from 1999 until October 2010. At The Washington Post for 23 years, Williams has worked as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent.
Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988), a companion to the documentary series of the same name about the African-American Civil Rights Movement;Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (2000), a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States; and Enough (2006), which was inspired by Bill Cosby's speech at the NAACP gala, and deals with Williams' critique of black leaders in America, and as he puts it the "culture of failure." Williams has received an Emmy Award and critical praise for his television documentary work and he has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns.
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Julie Banderas
Julie Banderas (born Julie E. Bidwell on September 25, 1973) is an American television news correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She was previously the anchor for Fox Report Weekend.
Banderas is a daughter of Fabiola R., a Colombian woman, and Howard D. Bidwell, and has a sister named Melissa. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Emerson College.
Banderas began her career (using her maiden surname) at WLVI-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. She went on to serve as a local news anchorwoman for WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia; WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut and WNYW in New York City.
Banderas joined the Fox News Channel in March 2005 as a general assignment reporter. In 2008, she replaced Laurie Dhue at the anchor position for Fox Report Weekend. In 2010 she took maternity leave with Harris Faulkner assuming her responsibilities. She returned to Fox News from leave near the end of 2010 and was reassigned to the position of general news correspondent.
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Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to his White House appointments, Rove was a Republican political consultant and strategist. He is credited with the 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush, as well as Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech Bush referred to Rove as "the Architect". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Texas Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections).
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Kat Swift
Kat Swift (born June 6, 1973) is a United States political activist, former co-chair of the Green Party of Texas, and spokesperson for the Green Party's National Women’s Caucus. Swift announced her intention to seek the 2008 Presidential nomination of the US Green Party at the 2004 Green Party National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was one of the youngest candidates to seek the office in 2008, meeting the age requirement of 35-years-old only months before Election Day in 2008. In 2007, she ran for City Council, District 1 in San Antonio, Texas finishing second of three candidates with 1,630 votes for 29.48% of the total vote. On July 12, 2008 she finished third on the single ballot for the party's presidential nomination with 38 out of 532 delegate votes cast. She later endorsed the winner of the presidential nomination Cynthia McKinney. Swift was later a 2010 candidate for Bexar County Commissioner in Precinct 2.
Swift is a critic of electronic voting machines, and during a 2008 interview said: "The people must have precedence over corporations and political machines! Think about who is counting [votes] and paying for the candidates to run for office. Are they people who are acting out of duty for an egalitarian society, justice, and liberty...or are they in it for other reasons?”
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Keith Vaz
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known as Keith Vaz (born 26 November 1956 in Aden, Yemen) is a British Labour Party politician and a Member of Parliament for Leicester East. He is the longest-serving Asian MP and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July 2007. He was appointed as a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2006. His parliamentary career has included a number of controversies, such as his suspension from the House of Commons in 2002 after making a false allegation against a former policewoman.
Keith Vaz was born in 1956 in Aden, Yemen, to parents originally from the Indian state of Goa, which accounts for his Goan-Portuguese surname. He moved to Bradford in England with his family in 1965. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law and obtained a BA 1st class Honours (1979), MA (1987), and MCFI (1988).
Vaz lives in London with his wife and two children, Luke and Anjali.
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Kelly Wright
Kelly Wright is an American reporter for Fox News Channel and co-anchor of America's News Headquarters on Saturday, and is based in the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. He was a co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend from July 2006 to January 2008.
Most recently, Wright reported from Tampa, Florida, on the Terri Schiavo story. In 2004 Wright spent nearly three months reporting on the developments in Iraq. He was among the first reporters to cover the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the subsequent court martial cases held in Baghdad. Wright also spent time embedded with U.S. and British troops, reporting on the military’s humanitarian efforts in Baghdad, Basrah, and Mosul. Wright also provided coverage on U.S. forces training Iraqi security forces. Additionally, he reported on the historic U.S. handover of sovereignty to Iraq. Beyond Iraq, Wright extensively covered the 2004 presidential election, including the Democratic presidential race, the New Hampshire primary, and the South Carolina primary. In October 2003, Wright reported live from the Congressional Black Caucus/FNC Democratic presidential candidate debate in Detroit.
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Kent Mesplay
Kent Mesplay (born July 19, 1962) is the California delegate to the Green National Committee and unsuccessfully sought the 2004 Green Party Presidential nomination which he lost again in 2008.
Mesplay was born and raised in Papua New Guinea to Lutheran Missionary parents. He graduated Valedictorian from Mira Mesa High School in 1980. In college, he studied Western and non-Western medicine, earning a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and he obtained an undergrad degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California. After graduate school, Mesplay suffered through a long period of unemployment as he worked to develop a funded position for himself at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Long Beach, California, before moving to La Mesa and teaching mathematics in the Grossmont Union High School District. He currently works as an Air Quality Inspector at the Air Pollution Control District, in San Diego.
Mesplay became a Green Party of California delegate to the Green National Committee in 2004 [1]. Previously, he was elected Treasurer of the Green Party County Council, San Diego, which he served as from 1996-1997. During the same period, he was the co-chair of the Communications Committee, Green Party County Council, San Diego.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle is an American cable news personality and is currently one of the rotating co-hosts on The Five on Fox News Channel at 5 pm ET, as well as the host of an Internet-only crime-related program for Fox News. She is a contributor to The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, and frequently appears on the late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. She is the ex-wife of California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and was first lady of San Francisco during Newsom's mayoralty of that city.
Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1994. While in school, she worked as a Macy's catalog model and as an underwear model for Victoria's Secret. After law school, she briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney and fired 14 of the city's prosecutors.
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Kirsten Powers
Kirsten A. Powers (born 1969) is an American columnist, blogger, pundit, and political commentator. Powers is a Democratic political analyst on Fox News who appears regularly on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Sunday, Special Report with Bret Baier and Freedom Watch. She is a regular guest host on the morning Fox News Radio show Kilmeade & Friends and a columnist for the New York Post and the Daily Beast. She is a regular guest host on Hannity and was rumored to be one of the top contenders to replace Alan Colmes when he left the Hannity & Colmes show in December, 2008.
Powers formerly wrote a column for American Prospect Online. Her articles have also appeared in USA Today, Elle, the New York Observer, Salon, and the Wall Street Journal.
Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, Powers' mother was an archaeologist. She served in the Clinton administration as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Public Affairs and was the Vice President for International Communications at America Online. Later she was a Vice President at the AOL-Time Warner Foundation.
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Laura Ingle
Laura Ingle is a correspondent for Fox News Channel.
Joining the network in 2005, Ingle was originally based in Dallas, and is currently based in New York. She has also appeared on the FNC program Geraldo at Large.
Prior to being hired by Fox News, Ingle reported on the Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson trials for talk radio station KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, and served as a news anchor/reporter for KFBK in Sacramento. In Sacramento at KFBK, Ingle worked with a number of current Fox News personalities, including Fox Business Network anchor/host and Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan, and Fox News Radio host Spencer Hughes.
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Laura Ingraham
Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964) is an American radio host, author, and conservative political commentator. Her nationally syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network.
Ingraham grew up in a middle-class family in Glastonbury, Connecticut and graduated from Glastonbury High School, in 1981.
Ingraham earned a bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College, in 1985, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of Virginia School of Law, in 1991. As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. In her senior year, she was the newspaper's editor-in-chief, its first female editor. She wrote a few controversial articles during her tenure, notably an article alleging racist and unprofessional behavior by a Dartmouth music professor Bill Cole. Cole responded by harassing Ingraham's dormitory roommate and inciting anger against her in one of his classes. Cole later sued Ingraham for $2.4 million; the college paid for his lawyer. He retracted the lawsuit in 1985 without ever naming an inaccuracy in Ingraham's article.
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Lauren Green
Lauren Susan Green (born June 30, 1958) is a religion correspondent for Fox News Channel. Her past position was giving the top- and bottom-of-the-hour headline updates weekdays during the morning television show Fox & Friends. She has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Green was born to Robert & Bessie Grissam Green. She has two sisters named Barbara and Lois and two brothers named Leslie and Kenneth. She won the Miss Minnesota beauty pageant in 1984, and was third runner-up in the Miss America 1985 pageant. (Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson was also a Miss Minnesota winner, and also won the Miss America title in 1989.)
A trained concert pianist (her talent in the Miss America pageant), Green sometimes plays keyboards with Mike Huckabee on his show. She also played piano for the Fox and Friends Christmas Special.
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Leland Yee
Leland Yee (Chinese: 余胤良; pinyin: Yú Yìnliáng, born November 20, 1948) is a California State Senator in District 8 which represents the western half of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County. Prior to becoming state senator, Yee was a California State Assemblyman, Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District, and was a member and President of the San Francisco School Board. In 2004 Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore, making him the second highest ranking Democrat of the California State Assembly.
Leland Yee immigrated to San Francisco from Taishan,Guangdong, China when he was three years old and later became a naturalized United States citizen. His father served in the U.S. Army and the Merchant Marines. Yee attended San Francisco's Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School and earned a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, a master's from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Child Psychology from the University of Hawaii.
After obtaining his PhD in Child Psychology, Yee worked as a therapist in the Mental Health Department of San Francisco, the Oakland School District and with Asian American for Community Involvement, a non-profit that serves low-income people.
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Linda Chavez
Linda Lou Chavez (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor.
Chavez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the daughter of Velma Lucy (née McKenna) and Rudolfo Enrique Chavez, a house painter. She is of Spanish/Mexican descent on her father's side (her father was descended from immigrants to what is now New Mexico from Spain in the 17th century; his family had lived in New Mexico for several hundred years, and one of his ancestors was a Governor of New Mexico while it was still under Mexican control). Her mother was of English and Irish ancestry. Chavez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. She attended graduate school at UCLA.
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Lis Wiehl
Lis Wiehl (born August 9, 1961, Seattle, Washington) is an American author and legal analyst for Fox News.
She is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, and formerly was an associate professor at University of Washington Law School. She formerly offered legal commentary for National Public Radio program and on Bill O'Reilly's radio program, The Radio Factor. She also debates feminist issues every Friday with Marc H. Rudov on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto. She is the sister of actor Christopher Wiehl.
Wiehl graduated from West Valley High School in Yakima, Wa, received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1983, a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland in 1985, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1987.
She began her career as a lawyer for the law firm of Perkins Coie, then served as a federal prosecutor from 1990–1995. Wiehl worked for the House of Representatives team (as "principal deputy chief minority investigative counsel" for the House Judiciary Committee) in the late 1990s, including during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.
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Liz Trotta
Elizabeth Trotta (born 28 March 1937) is an American journalist and conservative commentator.
Trotta was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Her parents, Gaetano "Thomas" Trotta, a successful pharmacist, and the former Lillian Theresa Mazzacane, were both Catholics who had emigrated from Italy. Beside her parents, Liz had a sister, Mary L. Juba, who died in 2002. Liz has three nieces, Susan Christian of California, Dorene Juba-Peplau of Connecticut, and Catherine Juba of Florida, and one great nephew and two great nieces who reside in Connecticut.
Trotta is a Fox News contributor and the former New York bureau chief of The Washington Times. She began her career in 1965, covering the Vietnam War as a correspondent for NBC News and later working for CBS News. Trotta has taught journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University. She has won three Emmy awards and two Overseas Press Club awards, and is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
On 25 May 2008, Trotta expressed on Fox News an apparent desire that presidential candidate Barack Obama be assassinated prior to the 2008 United States presidential election. While speaking about Hillary Rodham Clinton's reference to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, Trotta said:
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدینژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād [mæhˈmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneˈʒɒːd] ( listen),English: /ɑːkməˈdɪnɨʒɒd/; born 28 October 1956) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country. An engineer and teacher from a poor background, Ahmadinejad joined the Office for Strengthening Unity after the Islamic Revolution. Appointed a provincial governor, he was removed after the election of President Mohammad Khatami and returned to teaching. Tehran's council elected him mayor in 2003. He took a religious hard line, reversing reforms of previous moderate mayors. His 2005 presidential campaign, supported by the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, garnered 62% of the runoff election votes, and he became President on 3 August 2005. His second presidency term ends on August 3, 2013. He is not eligible to run for another term under the current Iranian constitution.
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Manny Alvarez
Manny Alvarez is a Cuban-American OB-GYN who serves as a senior medical contributor for the Fox News Channel and managing health editor of FoxNews.com, appearing on America's Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News Live, America's Pulse, The Live Desk and Fox News Weekend. He also appears as a weekly contributor on WNYW-Fox 5 News and has his own segment on Mega TV news. He is an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama's attempts to reform the health care system, insisting that this will lead to "socialized medicine" and "the end of private practice".
Born in Cuba on April 16, 1957, Manuel Alvarez was the oldest son of a middle income, Christian family. He came to the United States during the Cuban Revolution. He was separated from his family as a young boy when he was sent to the United States to live with a foster family through an outreach program while his father was placed in a Cuban prison.[citation needed] After four years, Alvarez was reunited with his family in New York and his father was able to start a business and buy property in Hoboken, New Jersey. Today, Alvarez lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
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Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson (pronounced /ˈmɑrə ˈlaɪ.əsən/; born June 13, 1955) is an American journalist and political pundit. She is the national political correspondent for National Public Radio and also a contributor at Fox News Channel.
Liasson was born in New York City. She graduated from Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York in 1973. Additionally, when she was studying at Scarsdale High School, she was one of a few students to form the Scarsdale Alternative School, an experimental democratic community that still exists today. She is a graduate of Brown University (class of 1977) with a bachelor of arts degree in American history.
Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco before joining NPR in 1985. She was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism to study at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for a year; she took leave to do that in 1988-89, then became NPR's congressional correspondent. She was NPR's White House correspondent from 1992–2001, receiving the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage for 1994, 1995 and 1997. She is now NPR's national political correspondent.
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Marc Ginsberg
Marc Charles Ginsberg has served as US ambassador to Morocco from 1994–1998, Deputy Senior Adviser to the President of the United States for Middle East Policy (1978–1981), Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy (1970–1977), CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Al Arabiya, CBC and Fox News, contributor, and is currently the senior vice president of APCO Worldwide and president of Layalina Productions, Inc. He is a founding director of Sutton Place Gourmet, and practiced international corporate law in the U.S. and the Middle East from 1981-1993. He also served as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Media in the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign and in 2000 was Al Gore's co-coordinator for national security in his presidential campaign.
Ginsberg was born in New York and from 1960–1968, was raised in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, and fluently speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French. He has earned a B.A. from American University, an M.B.A. candidate, as well as a J.D., both from Georgetown University.
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Marianne Rafferty
Marianne Rafferty is both an overnight anchor and correspondent for Fox News Channel, having joined FNC in 2006 as a correspondent based in Fox's Atlanta bureau. While based in Atlanta, Rafferty covered Hurricane Dean's path from Jamaica and also reported on the Duke lacrosse case.
Before joining the Fox News Channel, Rafferty worked as a reporter for KOCO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She began her journalism career in 2001 at KZTV-TV, the CBS affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas as an anchor and reporter.
Rafferty attended Bellarmine University and is a native of Beeville, Texas.
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Mark Fuhrman
Mark Fuhrman (born February 5, 1952) is a former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), known for his part in the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and his subsequent felony conviction for perjury. He has subsequently written books and hosted talk radio.
Fuhrman was born in Eatonville, Washington and attended Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, Washington. In 1970, at age 18, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he was trained as a machine gunner and military policeman. He served in Vietnam and was honorably discharged in 1975, having attained the rank of sergeant. Later that year, he entered the Los Angeles Police Academy, graduating second in his class. Fuhrman was promoted to detective in 1989. He served as a police officer for 20 years, earning more than 55 commendations before his retirement in 1995.
Fuhrman stated he found a blood-stained glove at Aaron Turner's condo (the scene of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman), and also found another at Simpson's home. He also claimed to have seen a number of blood drops at Simpson's home. He entered Simpson's estate without a search warrant due to exigent circumstances -– specifically, concern that Simpson himself might have been harmed. Soon after the preliminary hearing in the O. J. Simpson murder case, Simpson's defense team alleged that Fuhrman planted the glove found at Simpson's Brentwood estate as part of a racially motivated effort to frame Simpson for the murders.
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Mark Warner
Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American politician and businessman, currently serving as the junior United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Warner was the 69th governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and is the honorary chairman of the Forward Together PAC. Warner delivered the keynote address before the nation at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Mark Warner's experience as a congressional staffer and Democratic Party fundraiser in the 1980s prompted his involvement in telecommunications venture capital; he founded the firm Columbia Capital.
In 2006 he was widely expected to pursue the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections; however, he announced in October 2006 that he would not run, citing a desire not to disrupt his family life. Warner was considered to be a potential vice presidential candidate, but upon receiving the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, he announced that he "will not accept any other opportunity." He is expected to become the state's senior senator when Jim Webb retires from the Senate in January 2013.
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Martha MacCallum
Martha MacCallum (January 31, 1964) is an American news anchor on the Fox News Channel. She joined the network in 2004, and is based in the New York City bureau. She previously hosted The Live Desk with Trace Gallagher at 1:00 p.m. ET. Currently, she co-hosts with Bill Hemmer America's Newsroom at 9:00 a.m. ET.
MacCallum covered the presidential elections in 2004 and 2008 and the mid-term election of 2010. She also co-anchored coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Her wide-ranging interviews with everyone from General David Petraeus, to David Axelrod and John McCain and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, have been featured on her programs at the Fox News Channel.
Martha Bowes MacCallum was born on January 31, 1964 in Wyckoff, New Jersey to Douglas C. MacCallum Jr. and Elizabeth B. MacCallum, where she attended Ramapo High School. She earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science from St. Lawrence University. She also studied at the Circle in the Square Theater School and founded the Miranda Theater Company in New York. Prior to working as a reporter, MacCallum was an associate in corporate relations at Dow Jones & Company.
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Marvella Bayh
Marvella Hern Bayh (February 14, 1933 – April 24, 1979) was the wife of Indiana Senator Birch Bayh and the mother of former Indiana Senator Birch Evans Bayh III (Evan).
She was born in Oklahoma, married Birch Bayh in 1952 and moved to Indiana. When Birch Bayh decided to run first for the Indiana House of Representatives in 1954 and then for the US Senate in 1962 she began her career as the ultimate political wife—juggling campaign duties, motherhood, and household responsibilities with aplomb.
Mrs. Bayh suffered from a variety of health problems as the result of a car accident shortly after her marriage. Despite recurring back problems and double vision, Mrs. Bayh always was deeply involved in the Washington political and social scene. She and her husband also survived a plane crash in 1964 that killed two people and critically injured Senator Ted Kennedy.
The Bayhs were close friends with Senator Kennedy and his wife Joan Kennedy, as well as President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. As an Oklahoman, Marvella Bayh also formed warm and close relationships with President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson.
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Marvin Scott
Marvin Scott (born March 10, 1944) is a politician in Indianapolis, and unsuccessful 2010 Republican candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 7th Congressional District. He was previously the unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana in 2004 against incumbent Democrat Evan Bayh, but lost to Bayh, receiving 37%, 904,843 votes. Scott earlier was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Indiana's 10th congressional district in 1994 against Andrew Jacobs, Jr. and received 47.5% of the vote, as well as in 2000 against Congresswoman Julia Carson receiving 40%, 62,233 votes. Scott also unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the 10th district in 1996 losing to former State Senator Virginia Blankenbaker.
Scott has been a sociology professor at Butler University for eighteen years, and was president for nine years of Marvin Scott Associates, a management-consulting firm. He was also President of Saint Paul's College for two years, Assistant Chancellor of the Board of Regents for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for five years, Assistant to the Provost, and Associate Dean and Professor at Boston University for ten years. He serves on the Indianapolis Water Board, Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission, and the board of the Abraham Clark School of Law and the Regional Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Scott and his family are members of Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, where he serves as a deacon.
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Mary Ruwart
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph. D. (born October 16, 1949) is a research scientist and libertarian speaker, writer, and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning international bestseller "Healing Our World."
Born in Detroit, Ruwart holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry (B.S., 1970), and a graduate degree in biophysics (Ph.D., 1974) from Michigan State University. After a brief term as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at St. Louis University Medical School, Ruwart spent 19 years as a pharmaceutical research scientist for Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, and has written extensively on the subjects of government regulation of the drug industry and on libertarian communication.
In 1992, Ruwart published her best-selling book Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle (ISBN 0-9632336-2-9); in 2003, the third edition was published, retitled Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression (ISBN 0-9632336-6-1). In the afterword of the third edition of Healing Our World, Ruwart describes the experience of her sister's death, an assisted suicide facilitated by Jack Kevorkian.
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Matt Gonzalez
Matthew Edward Gonzalez (born June 4, 1965) is an American politician, lawyer, and activist prominent in San Francisco politics. He currently serves as chief attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's office.
Gonzalez was a member and president of San Francisco County's Board of Supervisors. He was also one of the first Green Party candidates elected to public office in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2003, Gonzalez ran for mayor of San Francisco but lost in a close race to Democrat Gavin Newsom. In the 2008 presidential election, Gonzalez ran for vice president as the running mate of candidate Ralph Nader.
Matthew Edward Gonzalez was born in McAllen, Texas, to a Mexican mother, Oralia, and Mexican-American father, Mateo. Gonzalez spent his first four years in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Gonzalez family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana; Baltimore, Maryland; and Louisville, Kentucky, before the family returned to McAllen when Gonzalez was 11 years old.
In an interview with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, Gonzalez described his father as a salesman who initially started out selling "cigarettes from the back of his car in south Texas" in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and later started an import/export business selling medical and dental supplies. A profile in the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gonzalez's father was a division chief for the international tobacco company Brown & Williamson.
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Megyn Kelly
Megyn Marie Kelly (born November 18, 1970), formerly known as Megyn Kendall, is an American journalist and news anchor employed by the Fox News Channel. Kelly currently hosts America Live from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST live from the network’s New York City headquarters. She occasionally also co-hosts on America's Newsroom along with Bill Hemmer during the Fox Channel Network's Morning Line-Up at 10:00 AM EST. Since 2007, the two have hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve special every year.
Kelly was nine years of age when her parents moved to Delmar, New York from Syracuse, New York. At Bethlehem Central High School, she played on the basketball and field hockey teams, as well as captaining the cheerleading squad. Kelly's father, who was on the staff of the University at Albany, died when she was 15. After high school, she pursued an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Syracuse University and later pursued a J.D. from Albany Law School; she served as an associate editor of the Albany Law Review while enrolled at Albany Law School. Kelly's first marriage to Daniel Kendall, an anesthesiologist, ended in divorce in 2006. In 2008 she married Douglas Brunt, the President and CEO of Authentium, at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York. They have two children: Edward Yates Brunt (September 25, 2009) and Yardley Evans Brunt (April 15, 2011).
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Michael Atkinson
Michael John Atkinson (born 17 June 1958), an Australian politician, was the South Australian Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Rann Labor Government. A day after the 2010 election, he stepped down as Attorney-General and resigned from the Cabinet. He will continue to represent the electorate of Croydon in the South Australian House of Assembly until the 2014 election.
Atkinson attended Glenelg Primary School and Unley High School. He then studied at the Australian National University and received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in history and also a Bachelor of Laws degree.
He worked as a sub-editor and journalist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1982 to 1985, an adviser and press secretary to federal minister Chris Hurford from 1985 to 1987, before becoming an advocate for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association in 1989.
On 20 November 2009 he was awarded the 2009 Friend of the Armenian-Australian Community Award by the Armenian National Committee of Australia.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician who is currently Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $22 billion in 2012, he is also the 11th-richest person in the United States. He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial data-services firm.
A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election, which fueled further speculation when he left the Republican Party. There was also speculation that he would run as a vice-presidential candidate. Bloomberg did not, however, seek the presidency nor was he selected as a running mate by any of the presidential candidates.
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Michael Jingozian
Michael Paul Jingozian (born April 30, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and political activist who served as vice chairman of the Libertarian Party from 2008 to 2010. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. Jingozian currently serves on the board of directors of the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, a non-partisan, nonprofit public policy advocacy group committed to election reform and protecting ballot-access laws in the U.S. He is also the founder and CEO of AngelVision Technologies, a marketing and sales promotion company, headquartered in Portland, Oregon. In 2011, the American Marketing Association of Oregon honored Jingozian as Marketer of the Year and presented him with the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jingozian declared his candidacy for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in October 2006. Although he had never held public office, Jingozian sought to leverage his skills as a successful marketing-communications entrepreneur to deliver his campaign messages. An article in CNN Money magazine cited his effectiveness at getting through to the masses. Jingozian’s campaign proposals included reorganizing the U.S. military, reforming election laws and drug laws, eliminating the Department of Homeland Security, abolishing the Patriot Act, and establishing greater transparency and accountability in government. One of his recurring campaign themes was that practical and viable measures existed to solve America’s problems, but such solutions were blocked at every turn by professional politicians and bureaucrats.
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Michael Scheuer
Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies and an Expert at Wikistrat. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999, the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.
Scheuer became a public figure after being outed as the anonymous author of the 2004 book Imperial Hubris, in which he criticized many of the United States' assumptions about Islamist insurgencies and particularly Osama bin Laden. He depicts bin Laden as a rational actor who is fighting to weaken the United States by weakening its economy, rather than merely combating and killing Americans. He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that Islamist insurgency (and not "terrorism") is the core of the conflict between the U.S. and Islamist forces, who in places such as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are "struggling not just for independence but against institutionalized barbarism." Osama bin Laden acknowledged the book in a 2007 statement, suggesting that it revealed "the reasons for your losing the war against us".
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Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative blogger, political commentator and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by Regnery Publishing.
Malkin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Philippine citizens Rafaela (née Perez) – a homemaker and teacher – and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang, who was then a physician-in-training. Several months prior to Malkin's birth, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa. After her father finished his medical training, the family moved to Absecon, New Jersey. Malkin has a younger brother. She has described her parents as Reagan Republicans who were "not incredibly politically active."
Malkin, a Roman Catholic, attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School, where she edited the school newspaper and aspired to become a concert pianist. Following her graduation in 1988, she enrolled at Oberlin College. Malkin originally planned to pursue a bachelor's degree in music, but changed her major to English. During her college years, she worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian. While attending Oberlin, Malkin was hired to write for an independent, right-of-center student newspaper by fellow student Jesse Dylan Malkin. Her first article for the paper heavily criticized Oberlin's affirmative action program and received a "hugely negative response" from other students on campus. She graduated in 1992 and later described her alma mater as "radically left-wing."
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Mike Emanuel
Mike Emanuel (born December 10, 1967) is the Chief Congressional Correspondent and a former White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel. He has worked for the network since July 1997. Emanuel has been based in the Fox News bureaus in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington.
Prior to working for Fox News Channel, Mike Emanuel was a television journalist anchor/reporter for local TV stations in Midland-Odessa, Texas, Waco, Texas, Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles.
Emanuel grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He holds a degree in Communication from Rutgers College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. During his college years, Emanuel announced Rutgers sports on WRSU-FM.
Mike Emanuel is a Greek-American. His religion is Greek Orthodox Christian.
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Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Mike Gallagher Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program that airs throughout the United States on Salem Radio Network and is also a FOX News Channel Contributor and guest host. According to Talkers magazine, Gallagher is the sixth most-listened-to radio talk show host in the United States.
As a 17-year-old high school senior in Dayton, Ohio, Gallagher talked his way into an on-air shift at WAVI-AM. His broadcasting career has taken him from Dayton to WFBC-AM in Greenville, South Carolina (now WORD-AM) where his ratings and revenue success led to his eventual promotion to station manager. From there, he became the afternoon drive-time leader in Albany, New York on upstate powerhouse WGY-AM. After Albany was the nation's number one market, New York City, where Gallagher enjoyed a two-year stint as morning drive host on WABC-AM, the nation's most listened-to talk radio station.
In 1998, The Mike Gallagher Show was launched nationally with twelve radio stations. As of the Spring 2011, Talkers Magazine reports that Gallagher is the sixth most listened-to talk radio host in America with over four million weekly listeners.[citation needed] He's heard daily in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia as well as in small, medium and major markets all over the country. According to the Benchmark Company, he is the 8th most-recognized talk radio personality in America.[citation needed] Gallagher has also been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Forbes.
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Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel ( /ɡrəˈvɛl/; born May 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts to French-Canadian immigrant parents, Gravel served in the United States Army in West Germany and graduated from Columbia University. He moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics. He served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963 to 1966 and became its Speaker of the House. Gravel was elected to the United States Senate in 1968.
As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his forceful but unsuccessful attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971 at risk to himself. He conducted an unusual campaign for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in 1972, and then played a crucial role in getting Congressional approval for the Trans-Alaska pipeline in 1973. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1974, but gradually alienated most of his Alaskan constituencies and his bid for a third term was defeated in a primary election in 1980.
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Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won (behind both John McCain and Mitt Romney). He won the Iowa Republican caucuses. Huckabee exited the race as McCain became the presumptive Republican nominee after winning the delegate-rich winner-take-all states of Florida, California, and New York.
Huckabee is the author of several best selling books, an ordained Southern Baptistminister, musician and a public speaker. He is also an ABC Radio political commentator. He and his wife, Janet, have been married for over 37 years and have three grown children: John Mark, David, and Sarah. Janet Huckabee was an unsuccessful candidate for Arkansas Secretary of State in 2002.
Huckabee currently hosts the Fox News Channel talk show Huckabee. Starting April 2, 2012 he will host The Mike Huckabee Show from noon until 3 pm weekdays for Cumulus Media Networks.
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Mike Straka
Mike Straka (born 10 October 1969) is an American television host, author and journalist. He serves as co-host and producer on Spike TV's primetime mma news magazine show "MMA Uncensored Live" and is the host of "TapouT Radio" on SiriusXM Sports with TapouT founders Punkass and Skyskrape. Straka also hosted Fighting Words with Mike Straka on HDNet which featured interviews with mixed martial arts athletes. He is also a regular contributor to FIGHT! Magazine, and has penned an MMA book based on interviews from his television show called "Fightng Words," from Triumph Books.
Straka was a vice president and executive producer at FOX News Digital, and also served as an on-air commentator on Hollywood and celebrity topics, as well as sports, for the cable net and on FOXNews.com. Straka created and was the executive producer of Strategy Room on FOXNews.com and was the host and executive producer of FOX Fight Game, a mixed martial arts features and news program. Straka also played the role of Young Minetta in the movie Analyze This and Johnny in the hit play Tony n' Tina's Wedding, and was a star in several television commercials in the 1990s.
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Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin, receiving the most votes in Indiana history, on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. He was formerly Senior Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company, Indiana's largest corporation, where he was in charge of the corporation's business strategy. He was widely speculated to be a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 before choosing not to run. He is the author of the best selling book "Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans."
Mitchell Elias Daniels, Jr., was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, to Dorothy Mae (née Wilkes) and Mitchell Elias Daniels, Sr. His paternal grandparents were Christian immigrants from Syria. Daniels has been honored by the Arab-American Institute with the 2011 Najeeb Halaby Award for Public Service. His mother's ancestry was mostly English (where three of his great-grandparents were born), as well as Scottish. Daniels spent his early childhood years in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia.
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Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–07).
The son of Lenore and George W. Romney (Governor of Michigan, 1963–69), he was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In 1966, after one year at Stanford University, he left the United States to spend thirty months in France as a Mormon missionary. In 1969, he married Ann Davies, and the couple had five children together. In 1971, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brigham Young University and, in 1975, a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University as a Baker Scholar. He entered the management consulting industry, which in 1977, led to a position at Bain & Company. Later serving as Chief Executive Officer, he helped bring the company out of financial crisis. In 1984, he co-founded the spin-off Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. His net worth is estimated at $190–250 million, wealth that has helped fund his political campaigns. Active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served as Ward Bishop and later Stake President in his area near Boston. He ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to long-time incumbent Ted Kennedy. In 1999, he was hired as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics; and he helped turn the fiscally troubled games into a success.
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Molly Henneberg
Mary Janne (Molly) Henneberg (born August 13, 1973) is a news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She has been with the network since 2001 and is based at the network's Washington D.C. bureau.
During her career at Fox News Channel, she has been a White House correspondent and covered the 2004 Presidential campaign. In 2003 she reported from Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently she presented live coverage of Hurricane Katrina from Mississippi and reported on the hurricane recovery efforts from Louisiana.
Prior to joining Fox News Channel, Henneberg was the medical reporter for WBRE-TV in Wilkes Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was also an early evening anchor and medical reporter at WPBN-TV in Traverse City, Michigan, and began her career as a reporter for WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland.
She is a 1991 graduate of George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia and received a bachelor's degree in English and Elementary Education from Vanderbilt University in 1995.
Growing up in Falls Church, Virginia, she remains an active community member serving on the board of the Falls Church Education Foundation and is a congregation member of The Falls Church, along with her parents Daniel and Jackie, younger brother Robert, younger sister Amanda, younger brother William, husband Chris and best friend Allison Yates Gaskins. She also is an obsessive Washington Redskins fan.
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Molly Line
Molly Line (born 31 January 1977) is a news correspondent for Fox News Channel. Molly Line joined Fox News Channel as a Boston-based correspondent in January 2006. She covered the arrest and extradition of Neil Entwistle, the British born man accused of murdering his wife and baby.
Prior to joining FNC she worked as an anchor/reporter for WFXT (Channel 25), a Boston affiliate. While at WFXT, Line covered the sentencing of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the Station Nightclub Fire — a disaster that killed 100 people.
Before her work at WFXT, Line served as an anchor/reporter at WXXA (Channel 23) in Albany, NY. She got her start in journalism as a photographer/reporter at WDTV in Bridgeport, WV.
Line is a graduate of Virginia Tech where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Political Science.
According to her Facebook page, she became engaged on Thursday, June 9, 2011.
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Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley (born September 19, 1968) is an American conservative radio and television commentator, and author based in New York City. She has her own radio show and is a Fox News contributor, Washington Times columnist, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Crowley holds a B.A. in Political Science from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University (2000). The title of her doctoral dissertation was Clearer than truth: Determining and preserving grand strategy. The evolution of American policy toward the People's Republic of China under Truman and Nixon.
Crowley began written correspondence with former President Richard Nixon while attending Columbia which led to the two meeting. She had the opportunity to continue her education at Villanova University but instead accepted a position as a research assistant for Nixon. Nixon promoted her to Foreign Policy Assistant in 1990 because he appreciated her foreign policy opinions. She was an editorial adviser and consultant on his last two books, Seize the Moment (1992) and Beyond Peace (1994). She held the position until Nixon's death in 1994. Crowley used this period to record her conversations and observations about Nixon (she kept a diary), and she published two subsequent books on the former President in his final years: Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People (1996) and Nixon in Winter (1998).
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Mort Kondracke
Morton M. Kondracke (pronounced /kənˈdræki/; born April 28, 1939) is an American political commentator and journalist. He gained great visibility via a long stint as a panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Kondracke worked for several leading publications, serving for twenty years as executive editor and columnist for the non-partisan Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He was also co-host of The Beltway Boys on Fox News Channel and is a regular nightly contributor on Special Report with Bret Baier.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kondracke graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1956, and from Dartmouth College in 1960. While at Dartmouth, he majored in English and was president of The Dartmouth newspaper. After college, Kondracke joined the U.S. Army and served in Washington, DC in the Counter Intelligence Corps while pursuing graduate work at Georgetown University and working part time for the Washington Star. After leaving the Army in 1963, Kondracke joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times, moving to the paper's Washington bureau in 1968, eventually working his way up to White House correspondent in 1974. In that role, he landed on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
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Neil Cavuto
Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.
Cavuto also tapes a nightly wrap-up of business news which airs on local FOX affiliates during the late news and has a syndicated radio business news segment that airs on weekday afternoons. He is the senior vice president and managing editor of business news for the Fox Business Network, and oversees content and business coverage. He is the author of two books.
Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended Immaculate High School. He worked as a White House intern during U.S. president Jimmy Carter's administration, graduated from St. Bonaventure University, and earned a master's degree from American University.
Neil Cavuto became the managing editor of business news and television anchor of Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel in July 1996, later becoming a vice president of business news in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. Your World is Fox's main business news program.
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Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich ( /ˈnjuːt ˈɡɪŋɡrɪtʃ/; born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician, author, and political consultant. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich was a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
In the 1970s, Gingrich taught history and geography at the University of West Georgia. During this period he ran twice (1974 and 1976) for the United States House of Representatives before winning in November 1978. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.
A co-author and architect of the "Contract with America", Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. In 1995, Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House". While he was House speaker, the House enacted welfare reform, passed a capital gains tax cut in 1997, and in 1998 passed the first balanced budget since 1969. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional election and pressure from Republican colleagues caused Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 5, 1998, and then the House on January 3, 1999.
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Noah Noble
Noah Noble (January 15, 1794 - February 8, 1844) was the fifth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1831 to 1837. His two terms focused largely on internal improvements, culminating in the passage of the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, which was viewed at the time as his crowning achievement. His taxing recommendations to pay for the improvements were not fully enacted, and the project ultimately led the state to negotiate a partial bankruptcy only a four years later. The debacle led to a gradual collapse of the state Whig party, which never regained control of the government and led to a period of Democrat control that lasted until the middle of the American Civil War. After his term as governor he was appointed to the Board of Internal Improvement where he unsuccessfully advocated a reoganization of the projects in an attempt to gain some benefit from them.
Noah Noble was born in Berryville, Virginia on January 15, 1794, the son of Dr. Thomas Noble and Elizabeth Clair Sedgwick Noble, one of fourteen children. Around 1800, his family moved to the frontier where his father opened a medical practice in Campbell County, Kentucky. In 1807, the family moved again to Boone County where his father acquired a 300 acres (120 ha) plantation which was operated by slave labor. Noble moved to Brookville, Indiana around 1811 at age seventeen, following his brother James Noble who had moved there some time earlier. James was a prominent lawyer and later United States Senator.
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Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is a former Marine Corps officer, political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, a military historian, and a New York Times best-selling author.
North was at the center of national attention during the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. North was a National Security Council staff member involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which served to encourage the release of U.S. hostages from Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan: diverting proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua (funding to the Contras had been prohibited under the Boland Amendment amidst widespread public opposition in the U.S. and controversies surrounding human rights abuses by the Contras). North was charged with several felonies and convicted of three, but the convictions were later vacated, and the underlying charges dismissed due to the limited immunity agreement granted for his pre-trial public Congressional testimony about the affair.
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɨd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.
Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, with a US$25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obama.
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Patti Ann Browne
Patti Ann Browne (born September 10, 1965) is an American news anchor and reporter on the Fox News Channel.
Browne hosts the headline update during several Fox News shows and she substitute anchors various shows. On international feeds of Fox News, she also hosts Fox News Extra segments, which air in place of U.S. commercials. Browne is also a regular guest-panelist on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, a late night talk show on Fox News.
Browne has been with Fox News Channel full-time since August 2000, anchoring Fox News Live headline news updates and as a fill in host for shows during many different time slots. Additionally, she anchors hourly news updates for the Fox News Radio network.
Prior to joining Fox News, Browne was an anchor for MSNBC, hosting a 2-hour weekend show, Weekend Morning Line. During her years at MSNBC, she covered un-scripted breaking news and conducted live interviews with international newsmakers. While a part of the NBC news network of channels, Browne also has served as a substitute news anchor on CNBC.
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Paul Helmke
Walter Paul Helmke, Jr. (born 1948) is an American politician, and the former president of the Washington, DC-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. He held this position from July 2006 to July 10, 2011. He is a former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana and a former president of The United States Conference of Mayors.
Helmke is a graduate of Fort Wayne's North Side High School, Indiana University, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and of the Yale Law School. While at Indiana University, where he majored in political science, he was elected president of the student body. Helmke attended Yale at the same time as former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was an acquaintance of each.[citation needed]
Helmke defeated Democratic incumbent Mayor Winfield C. Moses, Jr. in 1987. Helmke won re-election in 1991 and 1995. He did not seek re-election in 1999.
In 1980, Helmke ran in the Republican primary for the then Fourth Congressional District open seat in Indiana to replace Dan Quayle who was running for U.S. Senate; he was defeated by Dan Coats, who later went on to serve as U.S. Senator from Indiana. In 1998, he won the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring incumbent Republican Dan Coats, but lost to Democrat Evan Bayh in the general election. In 2002, Helmke unsuccessfully challenged incumbent U.S. Representative Mark Souder in the Republican primary for the Third Congressional District in Indiana.
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Peter Doocy
Peter Doocy (born 1987) is a general assignment reporter for Fox News Channel and the son of Fox News anchor Steve Doocy.
Doocy graduated from Villanova University and contributed to Fox News as a Palestra reporter while in college.
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Phil Keating
Phil Keating (born April 11, 1968) is a national correspondent for the Fox News Channel based in the Miami bureau. During his career at Fox, Keating has covered major breaking news stories including the death of Anna Nicole Smith, Caylee Anthony, and the trial of Jose Padilla.[citation needed]
Keating also covers NASA stories for Fox News, including NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the new Constellation program. Previously, he reported for the syndicated magazine show Geraldo Rivera on the Fox News channel-produced program Geraldo At Large. Prior to Geraldo, Keating was also a correspondent in the Fox News Channel's Dallas bureau.
He joined the program after an award-winning career in Denver at KUSA and KDVR. He has covered major national stories from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath to the shootings at Columbine High School.[citation needed]
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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader ( /ˈneɪdər/; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government.
Nader came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in general, and most famously the Chevrolet Corvair. In 1999, an NYU panel of journalists ranked Unsafe at Any Speed 38th among the top 100 pieces of journalism of the 20th century.
Nader is a six-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as a write-in candidate in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. Some people claim that Nader acted as a spoiler in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, while others, including Nader, dispute this claim.
Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut. His parents, Nathra and Rose (née Bouziane) Nader, were immigrants from Lebanon and members of the Maronite Church. His family's native language is Arabic, and he has spoken it along with English since childhood. His sister, Laura Nader, is an anthropologist. His father worked in a textile mill and later owned a bakery and restaurant where he talked politics with his customers.
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Ratliff Boon
Ratliff Boon (January 18, 1781 – November 20, 1844) was the second Governor of Indiana from September 12 to December 5, 1822, taking office following the resignation of Governor Jonathan Jennings' after his election to Congress. A prominent politician in the state, Boon was instrumental the formation of the state Democratic party, and he supported President Andrew Jackson's policies during his six terms representing Indiana in the United States House of Representatives.
Ratliff Boon was born January 18, 1781 in Franklin County, North Carolina, the son of Jesse and Kessiah Boon. At a young age he moved with his parents to Warren County, Kentucky where he attended a public grade school and later apprenticed as a gunsmith in Danville, Kentucky. In 1801 he was married to Delilah Anderson, together the couple had seven children. In 1809 he moved to what is now Boon Township of Warrick County, Indiana. Boonville, the county seat, was later named in his honor. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Boon joined the Indiana Territorial militia and eventually rose to the rank of colonel.
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Ray McKinney
Raymond Louis "Ray" McKinney (born June 20, 1962) is a mechanical services manager from Savannah, Georgia, and was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress from Georgia's 12th District in 2010. He was a candidate for U.S. President in the 2008 Republican primary, but withdrew on November 14, 2007.
McKinney was born June 20, 1962 in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Effingham County Public High School, where he was voted "most likely to become a nuclear scientist", McKinney had two years of Gulfstream Aerospace machinist training, two years Tool and Die, CFS machinist training, and (through 1990) two years at Savannah for Electro-Mechanical Engineering. He has been in the industry for the last 23 years. McKinney is currently a nuclear services manager for Continental Field Systems in Savannah. He and his wife Lisa live in Lyons on the McKinney family farm.
When asked about his educational and work experience, McKinney had this to say about his choice of career:
I think I prefer the term "machinist" above all but my wife thinks I put myself down by saying that. It is the proudest part of my skill set though. Her point is that people respect higher education and by telling people that I am a machinist that they have a lower opinion of who I am. Actually, I am quite proud of it.
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Rebecca Diamond
Rebecca Diamond (born January 30) is a former contributor on Fox Business and News Channels. She hosted the Fox Business Network TV show Happy Hour which was broadcast live from the Bull & Bear bar in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Happy Hour aired at 5pm Eastern on the Fox Business Network; the final episode was aired on June 4, 2010. Diamond now appears as a contributor on other Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network shows such as America's Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman, Varney & Company, and Fox & Friends. Diamond has a fan following on Facebook.
Diamond graduated in 1991 from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in Broadcast Journalism. She worked as an anchor/reporter for Lifetime Television and as a business writer for The Associated Press. She also worked as a reporter/anchor for local affiliate television stations in McAllen, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Diego, California. She joined Fox News as a news update anchor when the network was launched in 1996.
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Reena Ninan
Reena Ninan (born April 18, 1979 in Tampa, Florida) is a correspondent for ABC News, based in Washington, D.C. She reports for "ABC World News" with Diane Sawyer, "Good Morning America," "Nightline," and other ABC broadcasts. From 2007 to 2012 she was the Middle East Correspondent for Fox News Channel. She has reported from throughout the world, including Libya, Indonesia, India, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. She is married to Kevin Peraino of Newsweek, and she gave birth to her first child, Jackson Ninan Peraino, on December 30, 2010. In July 2011, she was named one of Glamour magazine's "Women on the Front Lines."
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Richard Lugar
Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1976, he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was its chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 2003 to 2007. Much of Lugar's work in the Senate is toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world. Before his election to the United States Senate, Lugar served as mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lugar is currently the third most senior senator, behind only Daniel Inouye and Patrick Leahy. He is also the longest-serving Senator in Indiana's history, and is the most senior Republican member of the Senate. In 2012, however, he lost the Republican primary for a seventh term and his service in the Senate will end in January 2013.
Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Bertha (née Green) and Marvin Lugar. He attended the public schools of Indianapolis. During this time he attained the Boy Scouts' highest rank: Eagle Scout. Later, he became a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He graduated first in his class at Shortridge High School in 1950 and from Denison University in 1954 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He went on to attend Pembroke College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar, and received a second Bachelors and an MA degree in 1956. He served in the United States Navy from 1956 to 1960; one of his assignments was as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade.
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Rick Folbaum
Rick Folbaum (born August 5, 1969) is an American news anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel and the former co-anchor of WNYW's Fox 5 News at 6.
Folbaum was most recently a co-anchor for the FOX flagship station in New York City, WNYW. He joined in early 2006. In 2009, he returned to Fox News Channel where he is a weekday substitute anchor and regularly hosts the Saturday 6pm edition of America's News Headquarters.
Folbaum is largely known for his years at Fox News Channel as an anchor of Fox News Live, the Fox Report Saturdays, and as a substitute anchor for Shepard Smith's programs. Joining in 1996, he was the network's London-based correspondent from 1998 to 2000, covering news stories across Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to his years at FOX, he worked as a writer for MSNBC and in radio at WOR-AM in New York City. He is a regular guest-panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
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Rick Leventhal
Richard Gary Leventhal (born January 24, 1960), known professionally as Rick Leventhal, is an American reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel based in New York since June 1997. Before joining FNC he spent 10 years in local news, reporting and anchoring in markets including Columbia and Spartanburg, West Palm Beach and Miami, Chicago and New York City. He is a graduate of American University in Washington, DC with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism.
Leventhal has been to war zones nearly two dozen times, including five trips to Iraq, four to Afghanistan, eight to Israel (including multiple journeys to the West Bank and Gaza), tours of Albania and Macedonia during the war in Kosovo and two trips to Libya in 2011. In 2003, Leventhal spent nine weeks in Kuwait and Iraq, embedded with the United States Marine Corps' 3rd L.A.R., crossing the border and advancing to the outskirts of Baghdad, where he joined the Sinners and Saints of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines. He was one of the first reporters on the scene at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the first to go live, before the towers fell to the ground. He traveled to Bahrain and Afghanistan later that year, embedding with Marines at Camp Rhino and Kandahar Airport for the launch of the War on Terror.
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Robert Hanna
Robert Hanna (April 6, 1786 – November 16, 1858) was the third Senator for Indiana, succeeding James Noble on the latter's death. Hanna was born near Fountainius in Laurens District, South Carolina, before moving to Brookville, Indiana, in 1802. He was sheriff of the Eastern District between 1809 and 1811, and sheriff of the common pleas court 1811-1820.
Hanna was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1816, and registrar of the Indiana Land Office from 1820 until 1830. Halfway through his tenure at the land office, he moved to Indianapolis (in 1825). On the death of Indiana's first Senator, James Noble, Governor Noah Noble appointed Hanna to the United States Senate, in which body he served from August 19, 1831, to January 3, 1832. Hanna was subsequently elected to the Indiana House of Representatives and served between 1832 and 1833; he then became a contractor for national roads in 1835 before returning to the House from 1836 until 1839, and finally, a member of the Indiana Senate from 1842 until 1846. He was killed by a train while walking along track in Indianapolis on, November 16, 1858. He is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis.
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Robert Massi
Robert Massi (born 2 January 1987) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Syrianska FC as a midfielder.
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Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district, which includes Galveston, since 1997, and a three-time candidate for President of the United States, as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and currently 2012. He is an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policies, including the Military–industrial complex and the Federal Reserve, and is known for his libertarian-leaning views, often differing from his own party on certain issues.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. He served as a medical officer in the United States Air Force from 1963 until 1968. He worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 1960s to the 1980s, delivering more than 4,000 babies. He became the first Representative in history to serve concurrently with a child in the Senate when his son Rand Paul was elected to the United States Senate for Kentucky in 2010.
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Rosa Clemente
Rosa Alicia Clemente (born April 18, 1972) is a United States community organizer, independent journalist and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.
Clemente was born and raised in South Bronx, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. Clemente has been delivering workshops, presentations and commentary for over ten years.
Clemente's academic work has focused on research of national liberation struggles within the United States, with a specific focus on the Young Lords Party and the Black Liberation Army. While a student at SUNY Albany, she was President of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA) and Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association. At Cornell she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social/political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence of Puerto Rico.
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani ( /ˈruːdi ˌdʒuːliˈɑːni/; born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office, for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. He prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including ones against organized crime and Wall Street financiers.
Giuliani served two terms as Mayor of New York City, having run on the Republican and Liberal lines. He was credited with initiating improvements and with a reduction in crime pressing the city's quality of life initiatives. He ran for the United States Senate in 2000 but withdrew due to being diagnosed with prostate cancer and revelations about his personal life. Giuliani gained international attention for his leadership during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For those actions, he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.
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Róger Calero
Róger Calero (born 1969 in Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan American journalist and one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party. He was SWP candidate for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008, and for the United States Senate in New York in 2006.
Calero was born in Nicaragua in 1969. He and his family fled via Los Angeles, California in 1985. Calero has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States (holding a green card) since 1990. While in Los Angeles, Calero joined a socialist movement and helped mobilize support against Proposition 187 in the early 90s.
Calero, a former meat packer, has been associate editor of Perspectiva Mundial (official Spanish language newspaper of the SWP) and a staff writer for The Militant (official English language newspaper of the SWP).
He now lives in Newark, New Jersey.
Calero was convicted of felony sale of marijuana in 1988. In December 2002, immigration police arrested Calero upon his return to the United States at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport from reporting assignments at a conference held in Havana, Cuba, protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas. He was threatened with deportation in 2002 as a result of his previous conviction in 1988.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.
As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.
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Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American politician who has been the 46th Governor of Kansas since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 1996 and then as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election, withdrawing before the primaries.
Sam Brownback was born in Garnett, Kansas, the son of Nancy and Glenn Robert Brownback. He was raised in a farming family in Parker, Kansas; his distant ancestors, of German descent, settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War. Brownback was state president of the Kansas FFA Association, and was one of the national vice presidents of the National FFA Organization from 1976 to 1977. While at Kansas State University, he was elected student body president and was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982.
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Sam Nunn
Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia (1972 until 1997) as a member of the Democratic Party. His political experience and credentials on national defense reportedly put him into consideration as a potential running mate for Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry (2004) and Barack Obama (2008). “Senator Sam Nunn will play an informal senior advisor role throughout the defense transition process. His expertise and the respect he has earned will be invaluable to ensure a smooth transition,” said spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter.
Nunn was born in Macon, Georgia and raised in nearby Perry, and he grew up with family connection to politics; he was a grandnephew of the Congressman Carl Vinson.
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Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (pronounced /əˈliːtoʊ/; born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.
Raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court. He is the 110th justice, the second Italian American and the eleventh Roman Catholic to serve on the court. Alito has been described by the Cato Institute as a conservative jurist with a libertarian streak.
Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Italian American parents: Italian immigrant Samuel A. Alito, Sr., and the former Rose Fradusco. Alito's father, now deceased, was a high school teacher and then became the first Director of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, a position he held from 1952 to 1984. Alito's mother is a retired schoolteacher.
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Samuel Bigger
Samuel Bigger (March 20, 1802 – September 9, 1846) was the seventh Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 9, 1840 to December 6, 1843. Bigger was nominated to run for governor because he had no connection to the failed public works program. The state had entered a severe financial crisis in his predecessors term and the government became insolvent during his first year in office. He oversaw the state's bankruptcy negotiations, but the bankruptcy he negotiated was only able to return the state to solvency briefly. By the time of his reelection campaign, the Whig party had become the target of public blame for the debacle, and Bigger was defeated.
Samuel Bigger was born in Franklin, Ohio on March 20, 1802, the son of John Bigger, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and a Ohio House of Representatives Speaker of the House. Because of his father he regularly encountered many of the leading men of the frontier. He attended a log cabin school in Ohio. As a boy, Bigger enjoyed reading books. At age eighteen he contracted a severe cold from which he nearly died. Because of the sickness he was constantly in poor health and his father decided he was unfit for manual labor on the farm and sent him to school where he could learn a profession. Bigger was enrolled as a student at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in the 1820s where he studied law.
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Sandy Rios
Sandy Rios (born 1949) is the President of Culture Campaign, a Fox News Channel contributor, and a talk show host.
Rios is the President of Culture Campaign a position she has held since 2004, and has previously served as President of Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian organization, from 2001 to 2004. Rios also serves as Chairman of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, a coalition that advocates human rights for the citizens of North Korea.[1]
Sandy Rios had hosted an afternoon drive time radio talk show on WYLL in Chicago, Illinois from 1993 to 2001, and later hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Concerned Women Today during her time as President of Concerned Women for America. In January 2007, Sandy returned to her position as WYLL 1160 AM afternoon drive host and retained that position through July 2010.
Rios is the recipient of the 2005 Henry Hyde Leadership Award, Pro-Life Action League's "Protector Award", Eagle Forum's Excellence Award, and Family PAC's 1999 "Conservative of the Year".
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palini/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.
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Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is a television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity, on Fox News Channel. Hannity has written three New York Times–bestselling books:Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, and Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda.
Hannity is the son of Hugh J. and Lillian F. Hannity. His paternal and maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland. He has two sisters. He grew up in Franklin Square, New York and attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York. Hannity dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University.
Hannity hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time; Regarding his first show, Hannity has said, "I wasn't good at it. I was terrible." Hannity's weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year by station managers. This was after two shows featuring the book The AIDS Coverup: The Real and Alarming Facts about AIDS by Gene Antonio; among other remarks made during the broadcast, Hannity told a lesbian caller "I feel sorry for your child". The station later reversed its decision to dismiss Hannity due in part to a campaign conducted by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Hannity decided against returning to KCSB.
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Shannon Bream
Shannon Bream (born Shannon DePuy on December 23, 1970 ) is an American journalist for the Fox News Channel. She is Fox News's Supreme Court reporter as well as the Anchor of America's News Headquarters on Sundays from 12:00-2:00 p.m (Eastern). Bream is also an occasional substitute anchor for Special Report with Bret Baier and America Live with Megyn Kelly.
Bream joined Fox News in November 2007 and is based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau.
Before joining Fox News, she was a weekend anchor and covered general assignments for Washington D.C.'s NBC affiliate, WRC-TV. Previously, she anchored the evening and late-night news for the CBS affiliate, WBTV, in Charlotte, North Carolina and held writing and reporting positions at the Tampa ABC affiliate, WFTS-TV.
Prior to her career in television, Bream practiced corporate law in Tampa, Florida.
She is a graduate of Liberty University and earned a Juris Doctorate with honors from Florida State University College of Law. Bream was Miss Virginia 1990, competing in the Miss America Pageant, and Miss Florida USA 1995, competing in the Miss USA Pageant. She is one of very few women to have competed in these two national pageants representing different states. She grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. She is married to Sheldon Bream, whose brother is retired Major League baseball player Sid Bream.
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Shepard Smith
David Shepard Smith, Jr. (born January 14, 1964), known better as Shepard Smith, is an American television news anchor. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on Fox News Channel. In addition, he anchors the 5:00 p.m. ET weekday news update on Fox News Radio, also titled Fox Report.
Smith was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the son of Dora Ellen Anderson, an English teacher, and David Shepard Smith, Sr., a cotton merchant. He attended Marshall Academy, a K–12 private school in Holly Springs, but completed his senior year of high school in Florida, where he, his mother, and brother moved after his parents separated. Smith went on to attend the University of Mississippi. He majored in journalism, but left two credits away from graduation. He frequently returns to the university during college football season and delivered the university's annual commencement address on May 10, 2008.
Smith signed his first television contract with WJHG-TV in Panama City Beach, Florida. He worked as a reporter for WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida (1985), a reporter for WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, reporter/anchor in Miami with WSVN and as a reporter at WCPX-TV (now WKMG-TV) in Orlando. In Los Angeles, California he was a correspondent for A Current Affair. He joined the Fox News Channel at its inception in 1996.
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Sherman Minton
Sherman "Shay" Minton (October 20, 1890 – April 9, 1965) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
After attending college and law school, he served as a captain in World War I, following which he launched a legal and political career. In 1930, after multiple failed election attempts, and serving as a regional leader in the American Legion, he became a utility commissioner under the administration of Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt. Four years later, Minton was elected to the United States Senate. During the campaign, he defended New Deal legislation in a series of addresses in which he suggested it was not necessary to uphold the Constitution during the Great Depression crisis. Minton's campaign was denounced by his political opponents, and he received more widespread criticism for an address that became known as the "You Cannot Eat the Constitution" speech. As part of the New Deal Coalition, the fiercely partisan Minton championed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's unsuccessful court packing plans in the Senate and became one of his top Senate allies.
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Steve Centanni
Steven James Centanni (born July 18, 1946) is an American news reporter for Fox News Channel.
Centanni joined FNC in 1996. He is currently based in Washington D.C. as a national correspondent.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he served as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEALs and provided numerous first reports for the network, including a report that the U.S. had captured two main offshore oil terminals located 22 miles (35 km) off Iraq's southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by Iraqi forces.
Previous to Fox, Centanni had worked for KRON-TV in San Francisco, California.
Centanni attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcasting from San Francisco State University. Centanni also attended Los Altos High School in Los Altos, California, graduating in 1964.
On August 14, 2006, he was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen while on assignment in Gaza City, along with Olaf Wiig, a cameraman from New Zealand. A witness saw two vehicles blocking the journalist's transmission truck and a masked man put a gun to their bodyguard's head, forcing him to the ground.
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Steve Doocy
Stephen James "Steve" Doocy (pronounced /ˈduːsi/; born October 19, 1956) is an American network-television personality on the Fox News Channel, journalist, and a best selling author.
Doocy was born in Algona, Iowa, and raised in Abilene, Kansas. He attended Kansan grade schools in Russell, Salina and Industry. He went to junior high in Wakefield and high school in Clay Center, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, with a B.S. in Journalism. He was the first on-air DJ for KJHK radio, the student operated radio station at 90.7 FM in Lawrence, KS.[citation needed]
Currently, Doocy is one of the regular hosts for the Fox News Channel's weekday morning wake-up show, along with Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade.
Prior to joining the Fox News Channel, Doocy anchored the morning newscast on CBS-TV's flagship station, WCBS-TV, in New York City. Previously, he was the co-host of Wake Up America on NBC cable and host of the nationally syndicated program House Party with Steve Doocy, a remake of the 1960s Art Linkletter show, and the host of the syndicated kids' series Not Just News. For six years, Doocy was the Emmy Award-winning features reporter for WRC, in Washington, D.C., and the NBC Television Stations division. His early television posts included news reporter positions in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Kansas as well as Des Moines, Iowa.
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Steve Harrigan
Steve Harrigan is a television news correspondent who worked on foreign assignments for CNN News before joining Fox News as a Middle East correspondent in October 2001. His home is in Miami, Florida.
Harrigan reported on Hurricane Katrina from Gulfport, Mississippi; Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan; and on conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. Before working at Fox, he was at CNN in Moscow "where he reported from inside the Kremlin when then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned in 1991, and covered the Chechen War". CNN's Moscow bureau received the Peabody Award, DuPont Award, and Kaplan Award for excellence in reporting while he was with the network.
Harrigan reported from Georgia when it was involved in combat with Russia in 2008 and had to run to escape after being targeted by gunfire at one point. Harrigan reported from Haiti in 2010 after a major earthquake.
Harrigan has filed reports from 80 different countries--more than any other Fox News correspondent.
Harrigan graduated from Duke University and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He is fluent in the Russian language.
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Steve Kubby
Steven Wynn "Steve" Kubby (born December 28, 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well-known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis. He has authored two books on drug policy reform: The Politics of Consciousness, and Why Marijuana Should Be Legal. He was the Libertarian Party of California candidate for Governor of California in 1998 receiving 0.9% of the vote. In 2008, he declared his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination and received significant support for the nomination, but was eliminated after the second ballot. Although various media reports have described him as a "felon" and "fugitive", Kubby's legal status was resolved on July 3, 2008, when California Superior Court Judge, David Nelson, dismissed all charges against Kubby, clearing his name and record of any criminal activity.
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Stewart Alexander
Stewart Alexis Alexander (born 1 October 1951) is an American democratic socialist politician, presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election, and former SPUSA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election.
A resident of California, Alexander was the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2006. He received 43,319 votes, 0.5% of the total. In August 2010, Alexander declared his candidacy for the President of the United States with the Socialist Party and Green Party. In January 2011, Alexander also declared his candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Stewart Alexis Alexander was born to a brick mason and minister, Stewart Alexander and Ann E. McClenney, a nurse and housewife, in the Mary Immaculate Hospital on the banks of the James River, near the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company, in Newport News, Virginia. Because the facility was then a segregated hospital, young Stewart and his mother were quickly relocated to a basement room.
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Stuart Varney
Stuart Varney (born July 7, 1949) is a British-American economic journalist, and as of 2011, working for the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network. Varney joined Fox News in January, 2004 as a business contributor on many shows, such as Your World with Neil Cavuto. He also occasionally serves as guest host for Your World and the shows on the Cost of Freedom business block. Varney graduated from the London School of Economics. He began his broadcast journalism career at KEMO-TV (now KOFY-TV) in San Francisco. In 1980 he joined the Manhattan bureau of the newly founded CNN and hosted shows like Business Day and Business Asia. From 1999 to 2001, he hosted CNN’s Moneyline with Willow Bay and has also worked for CNBC. Varney is a regular panel member on the FOX business analysis and stock trade investment program Cashin' In.
Varney now hosts the show, "Varney & Co." on the Fox Business Network, which airs from 9:20 to 11 a.m. every weekday. Along with Varney, the show is also co-hosted by Charles Payne, Tracy Byrnes and Chris Cotter.
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Susan Bayh
Susan Breshears Bayh (born November 28, 1959) is an Indiana attorney and the wife of Evan Bayh, a Democratic politician from the state of Indiana, who has been that state's governor (1989–1997) and one of its United States Senators (1999–2011).
A newspaper in her state has described her as being engaged in a profession it termed "professional board member" or "professional director".
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a former Miss Southern California and a member of Alpha Phi. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1984.
Bayh began her careers in law and business as a litigator for the Los Angeles law firms of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher; and later for the Indiana firm of Barnes & Thornburg. In 1989, she joined the pharmaceutical division at the Indianapolis based Eli Lilly and Company, managing the company's handling of federal regulatory issues. In 1994, she left the employ of Eli Lilly and taught at Butler University’s College of Business Administration, holding the title of Distinguished Visiting Professor.
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Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich (born December 16, 1952) is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News.
Estrich was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and grew up in Marblehead on the Massachusetts North Shore, where she attended the Eveleth School.
Estrich graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1977. In 1976, Estrich was elected the first female president/editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review.
Estrich served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1988, she was the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential run, even though she had never before managed a political campaign.
Estrich appears frequently on Fox News as a legal and political analyst, and has also substituted for Alan Colmes on the debate show Hannity & Colmes. She writes regular articles for the conservative website NewsMax, for which she is a pundit. She is also on the Board of Editorial Contributors for USA Today. She is currently a law professor at the University of Southern California Law School and a political science professor at its affiliated undergraduate school. Before joining the USC faculty in 1989, she was Professor of Law at Harvard University, where she was the youngest woman to receive tenure. On January 10, 2008, Estrich joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, a law firm based in Los Angeles, where she chairs their Public Strategy in High Profile Litigation: Media Relations practice area.
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Ted Weill
Theodore "Ted" Weill (July 25, 1925 – November 20, 2009) was the nominee for President of the United States of the Reform Party of the United States of America in the 2008 election. He was nominated at the party's national convention on July 20, 2008 in Dallas, Texas. During a 2009 interview with Monmouth University's school newspaper, Weill expressed interest in running again in 2012, but he died at his home on November 20, 2009.
Weill, a graduate of Michigan State University, was also a decorated World War II veteran, who earned four Battle Stars and served aboard the USS Pennsylvania. He was also a Boy Scout instructor. He was invited to the White House Conference on Small Business three times; in 1980, 1985, and 1990.
In the 1990s, Weill founded the Independent Party of Mississippi. In 1997, the Independent Party of Mississippi became the official state affiliate of the national Reform Party and renamed itself the Mississippi Reform Party.
Weill was the chairman of the Mississippi Reform Party and a Reform Party National Committeeman.
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Thomas McInerney
Thomas G. McInerney (born March 15, 1937) is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General. He is a command pilot with more than 4,100 flying hours, including 407 combat missions (243 in O-1s as a forward air controller and 164 in F-4C's, D's and E's) during the Vietnam War. In addition to his Vietnam Service, the McInerney served overseas in NATO; Pacific Air Forces and as commander of 11th Air Force in Alaska. Currently, he is a Fox News contributor, and is a member of the Iran Policy Committee.
McInerney was born March 15, 1937, in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and graduated from Garden City (N.Y.) High School in 1955. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy in 1959 and a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University in 1972. McInerney graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in 1970 and from the National War College in 1973.
After graduating from the academy in June 1959, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He then joined the Air Force, and completed initial pilot training at Bartow Air Base, Florida, and Laredo Air Force Base, Texas, in November 1960. McInerney was assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, and later to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, for advanced gunnery training. His first operational assignment was in October 1961 with the 476th Tactical Fighter Squadron, flying F-104s at George Air Force Base, California. There he took part in the Berlin and Cuban crises in 1962, flying escort missions in the West Berlin Air Corridor and escort reconnaissance missions over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In April 1963 he was one of the first forward air controllers assigned to South Vietnam with a Vietnamese army division.
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Thomas Posey
Thomas Posey (July 9, 1750 – March 19, 1818) was an officer in the American Revolution, a general during peacetime, the third Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, Governor of the Indiana Territory, and a Louisiana Senator.
Thomas Posey was born on the banks of the Potomac River on a farm adjacent to Mt Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia on July 9, 1750. According to his own account, he was "born of respectable parentage." Throughout his life Posey was dogged by rumors that he was the illegitimate son of George Washington. The rumor persisted even after his death and was the subject of several newspaper articles. Most historians are unsure of who his parents truly were as there is little recorded of them. Posey grew up on land adjacent to Washington's Mt. Vernon home, in the home of John Posey. John was a close friend of George Washington, and Thomas benefited from Washington's patronage early in his life. The rumors were dismissed by Posey's biographer, John Thornton Posey.
Posey received a plain English education from the neighborhood school and at 19 he moved to Virginia frontier near Staunton, Virginia where he intended to engage in a trade or farm. He opened a business producing saddles and married to Martha Matthews, the daughter of a local innkeeper. The couple had three sons, although only one survived to adulthood. Martha died in 1778 while giving birth to the third son. Life on the frontier would not quiet down though, and the Indians continual raiding led to a reprisal by the Virginia's Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore. In 1774 Posey was in the quartermaster's department of an armed expedition against the Indians who threatening the frontier settlements. He was present at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and the expedition succeeded in suppressing the Indians for the short term.
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Thomas Taggart
Thomas Taggart (November 17, 1856 – March 6, 1929) was a U.S. political figure, serving as mayor of Indianapolis and influential in state and national politics.
Born in County Monaghan, Ireland, Taggart immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1861. The family settled in Xenia, Ohio, where young Taggart got a job working the lunch counter at the railroad depot. At age 18, he was sent by his employer to manage the depot restaurant and hotel in Garrett, Indiana, where he met his future wife Eva Bryant. They married in 1878.
Taggart moved to Indianapolis in 1877 to run the restaurant at Union Depot.
Taggart became active in local politics in Indianapolis. He served as auditor of Marion County from 1886 to 1894. In 1895 he was elected mayor of Indianapolis, and served until 1901. He founded the city's park system during his tenure.
He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1904 until 1908. Taggart played a key role in ensuring the nomination of Thomas Riley Marshall as the Democratic nominee for Indiana Governor in 1908, and again in securing the Vice Presidential nomination for Marshall in 1912 at the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore.
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Tom Tancredo
Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo (pronounced /tæŋˈkreɪdoʊ/; born December 20, 1945) is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009, as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitution Party's unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Colorado in 2010.
Tancredo was initially elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1976 and served two terms. After working in the United States Department of Education during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations, he was elected to the United States Congress, and served five terms. He decided to not seek re-election in 2008. Tancredo ran for the Republican Party nomination for President in 2007, centering his campaign on the issues of illegal immigration and terrorism. He dropped out of the race in December 2007 to assist former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in his campaign for the nomination.
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Tom Vilsack
Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack (/ˈvɪlsæk/; born December 13, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002. On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election, but ended his bid on February 23, 2007.
Barack Obama announced Vilsack's selection to be the United States Secretary of Agriculture under his administration on December 17, 2008. Vilsack's nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on January 20, 2009.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tom Vilsack was abandoned at birth and placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage. He was adopted in 1951 by Bud and Dolly Vilsack, who raised him in the Roman Catholic faith. His adoptive father was a real-estate agent and insurance salesman, and his adoptive mother was a homemaker.
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Tommy Thompson
Tommy George Thompson (born November 19, 1941), a United States Republican politician, was the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, after which he served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thompson was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in polls. He is currently running for the United States Senate election in 2012.
Thompson was born in Elroy, Wisconsin, where his father, Allan, owned and ran a gas station and country grocery store, and his mother, Julia, was a teacher. He is a former captain in the United States Army and United States Army Reserve, and holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Thompson was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1966; he became the Assembly's assistant minority leader in 1973 and minority leader in 1981. He was famous for aggressively utilizing parliamentary procedure to give his minority party some limited say in the legislative process. Since this use of procedure was invariably one of delay and obstruction, he soon received the nickname "Dr. No" by the frustrated majority.[neutrality is disputed]
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Trace Gallagher
Trace Gallagher (born September 10, 1961) is an American television news anchor for Fox News Channel.
Born Tracy G. Gallagher, he grew up in the ski resort of Mammoth Lakes, California, where he was the quarterback for the Mammoth Huskie football team before he graduated from high school in 1979. Gallagher was graduated from the University of San Diego where he majored in business and played quarterback for the Torrero football team.
Based in Los Angeles, Gallagher was co-anchor with Martha MacCallum of The Live Desk, a general assignment correspondent and substitute anchor for Studio B and Fox Report. During his time at Fox, Gallagher has reported on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami.
He has also worked at Fox's Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City bureaus. Previously Gallagher worked at WCPX (now WKMG) in Orlando, Florida, KYEL (now KSWT) in Arizona, KVBC (now KSNV) in Las Vegas, Nevada and KTVB in Idaho.
On February 1, 2010, The Live Desk was replaced with America Live with Megyn Kelly. Gallagher continues to anchor and report on Fox programs.
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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller. He is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute and formerly co-hosted CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Tucker.
Carlson grew up wealthy in Carlsbad, a suburb of San Diego. He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. His adopted mother is Patricia Caroline Swanson (born 1945), former wife of Howard Feldman and an heiress to the Swanson food-conglomerate fortune. He has a brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. A great-uncle was Sen. J. William Fulbright.
He attended St. George's School, a boarding school in Newport, Rhode Island. After graduation, he majored in History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
He is married to Susan Carlson, née Andrews. They have four children: Lillie, Hopie, Dorothy, and Buckley.
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Uma Pemmaraju
Uma Devi Pemmaraju is an Indian-born American anchor and host on the Fox News Channel cable network. Pemmaraju, was also raised in San Antonio, Texas, currently anchors America's News Headquarters for Fox News Channel from Washington D.C. Pemmaraju is a graduate of Trinity University in Texas, with a bachelors' degree in Political Science. In addition to being coined as "Boston's Best Anchor" in 1996 and 1997 by Boston Magazine, Pemmaraju has received numerous Emmy awards for her reporting and investigative journalism. Other honors throughout her career include the Texas AP Award for reporting in 2002, the Woman of Achievement Award from the Big Sisters Organization of America and the Matrix Award from Women in Communications. She has also worked at KTVT the CBS-TV affiliate in Dallas, TX, as a news anchor and correspondent, as well as for WBZ-TV (NBC) in Boston and a producer for the syndicated show, "The Evening Magazine."
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Vance Hartke
Rupert Vance Hartke (May 31, 1919 – July 27, 2003) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977.
Born at Stendal in Pike County, Indiana, on May 31, 1919, Hartke attended public schools in Stendal. He graduated from Evansville College (now the University of Evansville) in 1940, and from 1942 until 1946 Hartke served in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, rising from Seaman to Lieutenant. Hartke graduated from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1948. His grandfather also died the day he graduated. Therefore, he had to miss his graduation.
After joining the Indiana State Bar in 1948, Hartke began practicing law in Evansville. He also worked as deputy prosecuting attorney of Vanderburgh County (1950–1951) and mayor of Evansville (1956–1958) and integrated the city swimming pools before being elected to the United States Senate in 1958 and reelected in 1964 and 1970 (1959–1977).
In the Senate, Hartke was best known for his opposition to the Vietnam War and his chairmanship of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Hartke had a fallout with President Lyndon Johnson when he became one of the first opponents of the Vietnam War.
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Walid Phares
Walid Phares (Arabic: وليد فارس IPA: [waˈliːd ˈfaːres]) is an American scholar of Lebanese origins. He is a professor and commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.
Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security Departments, the United States Congress, the European Parliament, the United Nations Security Council. He has been a Terrorism expert at NBC from 2003 to 2006 and is a contributor at Fox News since 2007. He is currently an Expert at Wikistrat.
Walid Phares was born on December 24, 1957 and raised in Beirut, where he studied at the Lebanese and Saint Joseph Universities. After earning degrees in law, political science and sociology, he practiced law in Beirut. He then earned a Masters degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a Ph.D. in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami. He emigrated to the United States in 1990, after Syrian troops invaded the last enclaves of what was known then as the "Free Lebanon".
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Waller Taylor
Waller Taylor (1786 – August 26, 1826) was an American military commander and politician.
Taylor was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia where he spent his entire childhood. He studied law and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1800 to 1802.
In 1804 he moved to Vincennes, Indiana and practiced law there. He was appointed chancellor of the Indiana Territory in 1807. Also in 1807, he became a major in the territorial militia. He fought against Native Americans and served as an aide-de-camp to William Henry Harrison during the Tecumseh's War in 1809 to 1810. He participated in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Taylor continued in the United States Army during the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of adjutant general.
Taylor was a strong supporter of slavery and believed that slavery should have been allowed in Indiana. The slavery party had lost its majority status in the 1809 election and Taylor was part of the pro-slavery party trying regain power. He campaigned to become the congressional representative for Indiana in 1812 but was defeated by Jonathan Jennings. He had a hot temper and during the campaign challenged Jennings to a duel; Jennings declined.
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Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root (born July 20, 1961) is an American politician, entrepreneur, television and radio personality, author and political commentator. He was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee. Root began his career as a professional sports handicapper, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
His political talk radio show,W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Showis broadcast in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Root is a frequent guest on several nationally syndicated radio shows such as Savage Nation, The Jerry Doyle Show, and Mancow's Morning Madhouse. He has also made numerous appearances on various programs on the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent speaker at Tea Party events across the United States.
Root's political columns appear in the Las Vegas Review Journal and at Newsmax.com.
At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, Root was eliminated on the fifth ballot in a bid for the presidential nomination, and subsequently became the vice presidential candidate alongside Libertarian nominee Bob Barr. Root lost a bid to become National Chair of the Libertarian Party at the party's 2010 Convention.
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Wayne Rogers
William Wayne McMillan Rogers III (born April 7, 1933) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of 'Trapper John' McIntyre in the U.S. television series, M*A*S*H.
He is a regular panel member on the Fox News Channel stock investment television program Cashin' In, as a result of having built a highly successful and lucrative second career as an investor, investment strategist and advisor, and money manager.
The son of a Rhodes Scholar, Rogers was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Ramsay High School in Birmingham and is a graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. He later graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1954, where he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, the Eating Club Tiger Inn, and served in the U.S. Navy before becoming an actor.
Prior to the role of 'Trapper John', Rogers appeared on television in various roles in both dramas and sitcoms such as The Invaders, The F.B.I., Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Fugitive, and had a small supporting role in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke. He had also been a co-star with Robert Bray and Richard Eyer in the western series Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television production on ABC from 1960–1961. In 1959 he played Slim Davis on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Rogers also played a role in Odds Against Tomorrow which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1960 as Best Film Promoting International Understanding.
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Wayne Townsend
W. Wayne Townsend (born 1926) is a Hartford City farmer and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Indiana who was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984. Townsend was defeated by the incumbent Republican Governor Robert D. Orr in a year in which Indiana joined forty-eight other states in reelecting the Reagan-Bush ticket.
Wayne was the grandson of Indiana Governor M. Clifford Townsend.
Townsend received 1,036,832 ballots (47.2 percent of the two-party vote) to Orr's 1,146,497 (52.8 percent). Townsend ran 195,351 votes ahead of his party's presidential nominee, former Vice President of the United States Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota.
In January 1977, Townsend, then a member of the Indiana State Senate, cast the tie-breaking vote to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. The Senate had been deadlocked 25-25 on ERA. First Lady Rosalynn Smith Carter telephoned Townsend and urged him to switch his vote. Townsend did accordingly change his vote, and the ERA passed, 26-24. Indiana became the 35th and final state to ratify the controversial amendment, which was opposed by a grassroots organization headed by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, then of Illinois. Thirty-eight states are required for ratification of a constitutional amendment.
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Wendell Goler
Wendell Goler is the Senior White House and Foreign Affairs correspondent for Fox News Channel, joining the network in 1996. During his time at the network, he has covered several major political stories, including the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and President Bush's post-September 11, 2001 policy initiatives.
In June 2011, Goler was moved from the White House correspondent position to an expanded role as part of changes in FNC's Washington Bureau. He was replaced by Ed Henry, who moved to FNC from Cable News Network.
Before joining FNC, Goler served as a White House correspondent for Associated Press Broadcast Services. Responsible for all radio and television network coverage of domestic and foreign presidential activities, Goler anchored all presidential news conferences for the service. Earlier, he served as a reporter for several Washington, D.C., stations, including WJLA-TV and WRC-TV; and was the afternoon drive anchor at WRC-AM.
Goler attended the University of Michigan and is a native of Jackson, Michigan.
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William Hendricks
William Hendricks (November 12, 1782 – May 16, 1850) was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest political families in Indiana. He was the uncle of Thomas Andrews Hendricks, who was also Governor of Indiana and Vice President of the United States. Hendricks County was named in his honor. His term as governor was spent repairing the state's finances to later enable large scale internal improvements. The basic framework of the state's public school system, and overseeing the transfer of the capital to Indianapolis from Corydon also occurred during his term.
Hendricks was born born in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on November 12, 1782, the son of Abraham and Ann Jamison Hendricks. His father was a prominent man in the community and a state legislator. He was the brother of Thomas Hendricks and John Hendricks, the uncle of Vice President Thomas Andrews Hendricks, and the father of William Hendricks Jr.
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William Kristol
William Kristol (born December 23, 1952) is an American neoconservativepolitical analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel.
Kristol is associated with a number of prominent conservative think tanks. He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan. He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.
Kristol was born on December 23, 1952 in New York City into a Jewish family. His father, the late Irving Kristol, served as the managing editor of Commentary magazine and has been described as the "godfather of neoconservatism". His mother Gertrude Himmelfarb was a scholar of Victorian era literature. He graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School, a preparatory school for boys.
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Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني; 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (Arabic: أبو عمار, 'Abū `Ammār), was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war. Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country.
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Senator Evan Bayh delivers farewell speech
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Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked the people of Indiana for the privilege to serve and urged the Senate to work together to meet the gathering challenges facing the United States.
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Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked the people of Indiana for the privilege to serve and urged the Senate to work together to meet the gathering challenges facing the United States.
Democratic National Convention- Sen. Evan Bayh
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Evan Bayh thinks Joe Biden might run for President in 2016
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Educational purposes only. Broadcast Fox News Sunday 12-30-12
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Educational purposes only. Broadcast Fox News Sunday 12-30-12
- published: 02 Jan 2013
- views: 88
- author: andrew yezen
AIC 2012 Interview: Evan Bayh, Former Democratic Senator for Indiana
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As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the current political discourse surrounding this year's US elections.
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As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the current political discourse surrounding this year's US elections.
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 127
- author: creditsuissevideos
Evan Bayh - spending cuts needed later
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- Updated: 20 May 2012
Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D side and one foot on the R side and not be dragged down by being associated with the Obama years. (He argues for stimulus in the form of middle class tax cuts now, then cuts to social programs later.) 5-20-12
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Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D side and one foot on the R side and not be dragged down by being associated with the Obama years. (He argues for stimulus in the form of middle class tax cuts now, then cuts to social programs later.) 5-20-12
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 22
- author: Todd Feinburg
Evan Bayh: Bomb Iran
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- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
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Joe Donnelly and Evan Bayh campaign together
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- Updated: 31 Jan 2013
In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of former Indiana Governor and US Senator Evan Bayh
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In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of former Indiana Governor and US Senator Evan Bayh
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 206
- author: wish
US Should Bomb Iran - Bayh on Fox News
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- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should attack Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down Bayh's motivation. www.washingtonpost.com www.haaretz.com www.google.com thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should attack Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down Bayh's motivation. www.washingtonpost.com www.haaretz.com www.google.com thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 45246
- author: TheYoungTurks
Evan Bayh speaks to SC Dems at DNC
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Former Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh speaks to South Carolina delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
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Former Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh speaks to South Carolina delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
- published: 06 Sep 2012
- views: 54
- author: PalmettoPublicRecord
Fox News Hires Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
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Cenk Uygur reacts to Fox News hiring former Democratic Senator of Indiana Evan Bayh.
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Cenk Uygur reacts to Fox News hiring former Democratic Senator of Indiana Evan Bayh.
- published: 15 Mar 2011
- views: 15819
- author: TheYoungTurks
Fmr. Dem Senator Evan Bayh: Obama Should 'Disavow' Priorities USA Ad
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- Duration: 2:23
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Fmr. Dem Senator Evan Bayh: Obama Should 'Disavow' Priorities USA Ad TJ Walker is the #1 rated Daily Internet-only liberal news video pundit (viewed at www.tjwalker.com and www.youtube.com Walker is also a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Daily Kos, and the Reuters Insider Network. Walker is also a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Business Week best-selling author. A frequent network news analyst, Walker has made more than 1000 national TV and radio guest appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Al Jazeera, NBC, Fox Business, Russia Today, HLN, TrueTV, Comedy Central, Sirius and NPR. In 2009, Walker entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. (www.mediatrainingworldwide.com)
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Fmr. Dem Senator Evan Bayh: Obama Should 'Disavow' Priorities USA Ad TJ Walker is the #1 rated Daily Internet-only liberal news video pundit (viewed at www.tjwalker.com and www.youtube.com Walker is also a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Daily Kos, and the Reuters Insider Network. Walker is also a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Business Week best-selling author. A frequent network news analyst, Walker has made more than 1000 national TV and radio guest appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Al Jazeera, NBC, Fox Business, Russia Today, HLN, TrueTV, Comedy Central, Sirius and NPR. In 2009, Walker entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. (www.mediatrainingworldwide.com)
- published: 13 Aug 2012
- views: 38
- author: tjwalker
Evan Bayh introduces Joe Donnelly after he was announced wi
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mr. evan bayh - the song
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A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And I thought Indianas favorite son Was tough enough to get it done And maybe he could stand firm for a while. But February made me shiver, The news on every blog, plus twitter Bad news on my laptop Weve lost a key Dem backstop I sat there and I rolled my eyes When he said hed finally gotten wise To the ways of Congress . . . .God, what lies! The day that we got Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some douchey guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Didnt you want to be VP? Like 3 different times? Cuz it seems to me Maybe thats what this is all about . . . Cuz youre so pissed at not being picked You took your ball and went home, you dick! Didnt daddy teach you not to po-ut? Well Birch ran for prez, and he didnt win But that was fine, it didnt affect him He pushed the ERA And wrote Title IX too, OK? And in that lonely year, that gloom of night When Reagan took the country to the right Did Birch give up without a fight? No! He lost, but he wouldnt have Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some sleazy guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Now for 12 years you have warmed your seat And I guess you couldnt stand the heat You ...
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A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And I thought Indianas favorite son Was tough enough to get it done And maybe he could stand firm for a while. But February made me shiver, The news on every blog, plus twitter Bad news on my laptop Weve lost a key Dem backstop I sat there and I rolled my eyes When he said hed finally gotten wise To the ways of Congress . . . .God, what lies! The day that we got Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some douchey guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Didnt you want to be VP? Like 3 different times? Cuz it seems to me Maybe thats what this is all about . . . Cuz youre so pissed at not being picked You took your ball and went home, you dick! Didnt daddy teach you not to po-ut? Well Birch ran for prez, and he didnt win But that was fine, it didnt affect him He pushed the ERA And wrote Title IX too, OK? And in that lonely year, that gloom of night When Reagan took the country to the right Did Birch give up without a fight? No! He lost, but he wouldnt have Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some sleazy guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Now for 12 years you have warmed your seat And I guess you couldnt stand the heat You ...
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 23487
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Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN): Obama Doesn't Want To Talk About Last 4 Years
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Former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) says on "Fox News Sunday" that the Obama campaign wants to talk about anything but what people have experienced the last four years (August 12, 2012).
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Former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) says on "Fox News Sunday" that the Obama campaign wants to talk about anything but what people have experienced the last four years (August 12, 2012).
- published: 12 Aug 2012
- views: 3379
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Evan Bayh- Ryan helps Obama distract from last 4 yrs
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Former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh says the selection of Paul Ryan helps the president do what he wants to do - avoid discussing his record. 8-12-12
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Former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh says the selection of Paul Ryan helps the president do what he wants to do - avoid discussing his record. 8-12-12
- published: 12 Aug 2012
- views: 44
- author: Todd Feinburg
Evan Bayh's (D-IA) Freudian Slip
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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IA) slips and reveals the truth of the Obama Administration and the upcoming 2012 presidential election.
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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IA) slips and reveals the truth of the Obama Administration and the upcoming 2012 presidential election.
- published: 21 May 2012
- views: 31
- author: Frawddawg
Fmr. Sen. Evan Bayh Describes Christchurch Quake
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- Updated: 17 Nov 2011
Former Indiana Senator Even Bayh (D) was attending a trade forum and his wife was shopping in the other part of town when the earthquake happened in New Zealand. After about four hours, he located his wife. Now, he shares his experiences of being in Christchurch when the quake hit with Bill Hemmer. For more, log on to www.foxnewsinsider.com.
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Former Indiana Senator Even Bayh (D) was attending a trade forum and his wife was shopping in the other part of town when the earthquake happened in New Zealand. After about four hours, he located his wife. Now, he shares his experiences of being in Christchurch when the quake hit with Bill Hemmer. For more, log on to www.foxnewsinsider.com.
- published: 24 Feb 2011
- views: 738
- author: FoxNewsInsider
Evan Bayh: Leftist hypocrite
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Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily Video Commentary #41. This video first premiered on World Net Daily where Jackie does a weekly video column.
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Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily Video Commentary #41. This video first premiered on World Net Daily where Jackie does a weekly video column.
- published: 26 Feb 2010
- views: 1964
- author: TheUltimateJew
Former Senator Evan Bayh blasts Senate Democrats on payroll, joins GOP call for full year extension
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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.
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Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.
- published: 28 Aug 2008
- views: 2113
- author: DemConvention
Fox News Special 5-25-12 Segment 3
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Former Governor/Senator Evan Bayh takes a stand on the behavior of Congress and the President that may put him at odds with people in his own party. But it's his civil exchange with the voter panel that proves he has rightfully earned the reputation of being one of the most thoughtful and most missed Senators.
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Former Governor/Senator Evan Bayh takes a stand on the behavior of Congress and the President that may put him at odds with people in his own party. But it's his civil exchange with the voter panel that proves he has rightfully earned the reputation of being one of the most thoughtful and most missed Senators.
- published: 28 May 2012
- views: 83
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Evan Bayh calls out Lieberman
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"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for defeat'..."
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"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for defeat'..."
- published: 20 Jul 2008
- views: 11848
- author: bmillerdem
SPLIT: A DEEPER DIVIDE - TRAILER
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What does it mean for our collective future when we too divided to address the challenges we face as a nation? SPLIT: A Deeper Divide is the riveting investigation into the partisanship paralyzing our politics that looks beyond the bitter rancor to reveal the truth of why our country is more polarized and our politics more gridlocked than at any other time in recent memory. Through unparalleled access to the most insightful and recognizable names analyzing politics and society - including, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Lawrence Lessig (Foundation of Ethics; Harvard), Grover Norquist (American for Tax Reform) Jacob Hacker (Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Yale), Ezra Klein (MSNBC), Robert Kaiser (Washington Post), Norm Ornstein (AEI), Thomas Frank (Wall Street Journal), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Robert Putnam (Harvard), Nicholas Kristof (NY Times), Tucker Carlson (Fox News), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now), among others - the thought-provoking documentary unpacks the partisan wedges that have been driven ever deeper into our national fabric and the devastating impact these have had on our democracy. The film moves beyond the headlines of conservatives vs. liberals to the deeper questions of why - Why have we become two Americas? What are the forces - social, cultural, economic, political - that divide our nation so deeply? The must-see documentary of this election season, SPLIT: A Deeper Divide offers a much needed non-partisan perspective on how ...
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What does it mean for our collective future when we too divided to address the challenges we face as a nation? SPLIT: A Deeper Divide is the riveting investigation into the partisanship paralyzing our politics that looks beyond the bitter rancor to reveal the truth of why our country is more polarized and our politics more gridlocked than at any other time in recent memory. Through unparalleled access to the most insightful and recognizable names analyzing politics and society - including, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Lawrence Lessig (Foundation of Ethics; Harvard), Grover Norquist (American for Tax Reform) Jacob Hacker (Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Yale), Ezra Klein (MSNBC), Robert Kaiser (Washington Post), Norm Ornstein (AEI), Thomas Frank (Wall Street Journal), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Robert Putnam (Harvard), Nicholas Kristof (NY Times), Tucker Carlson (Fox News), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now), among others - the thought-provoking documentary unpacks the partisan wedges that have been driven ever deeper into our national fabric and the devastating impact these have had on our democracy. The film moves beyond the headlines of conservatives vs. liberals to the deeper questions of why - Why have we become two Americas? What are the forces - social, cultural, economic, political - that divide our nation so deeply? The must-see documentary of this election season, SPLIT: A Deeper Divide offers a much needed non-partisan perspective on how ...
- published: 21 Sep 2012
- views: 2741
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Senator Evan Bayh delivers farewell speech
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Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked the people of Indiana for the privilege to serve and urged the Senate to work together to meet the gathering challenges facing the United States.
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Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked the people of Indiana for the privilege to serve and urged the Senate to work together to meet the gathering challenges facing the United States.
- published: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 7990
- author: SenEvanBayh
Democratic National Convention- Sen. Evan Bayh
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AIC 2012 Interview: Evan Bayh, Former Democratic Senator for Indiana
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As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the current political discourse surrounding this year's US elections.
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As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the current political discourse surrounding this year's US elections.
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 122
- author: creditsuissevideos
Evan Bayh: Bomb Iran
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- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
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Evan Bayh - spending cuts needed later
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- Updated: 20 May 2012
Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D side and one foot on the R side and not be dragged down by being associated with the Obama years. (He argues for stimulus in the form of middle class tax cuts now, then cuts to social programs later.) 5-20-12
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Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D side and one foot on the R side and not be dragged down by being associated with the Obama years. (He argues for stimulus in the form of middle class tax cuts now, then cuts to social programs later.) 5-20-12
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 19
- author: Todd Feinburg
CNN Official Interview: Bill Maher to Senator Evan Bayh 'Good riddance'
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Bill Maher shares his thoughts on Sen. Evan Bayh, the problems with Congress, contradictory voters and more.
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Bill Maher shares his thoughts on Sen. Evan Bayh, the problems with Congress, contradictory voters and more.
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 3846
- author: CNN
IFC NEWS at DNC: Evan Bayh Interview
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- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
IFC NEWS at DNC: Evan Bayh Interview
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Joe Donnelly and Evan Bayh campaign together
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of former Indiana Governor and US Senator Evan Bayh
http://wn.com/Joe_Donnelly_and_Evan_Bayh_campaign_together
In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of former Indiana Governor and US Senator Evan Bayh
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 202
- author: wish
mr. evan bayh - the song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:34
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And I thought Indianas favorite son Was tough enough to get it done And maybe he could stand firm for a while. But February made me shiver, The news on every blog, plus twitter Bad news on my laptop Weve lost a key Dem backstop I sat there and I rolled my eyes When he said hed finally gotten wise To the ways of Congress . . . .God, what lies! The day that we got Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some douchey guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Didnt you want to be VP? Like 3 different times? Cuz it seems to me Maybe thats what this is all about . . . Cuz youre so pissed at not being picked You took your ball and went home, you dick! Didnt daddy teach you not to po-ut? Well Birch ran for prez, and he didnt win But that was fine, it didnt affect him He pushed the ERA And wrote Title IX too, OK? And in that lonely year, that gloom of night When Reagan took the country to the right Did Birch give up without a fight? No! He lost, but he wouldnt have Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some sleazy guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Now for 12 years you have warmed your seat And I guess you couldnt stand the heat You ...
http://wn.com/mr_evan_bayh_the_song
A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And I thought Indianas favorite son Was tough enough to get it done And maybe he could stand firm for a while. But February made me shiver, The news on every blog, plus twitter Bad news on my laptop Weve lost a key Dem backstop I sat there and I rolled my eyes When he said hed finally gotten wise To the ways of Congress . . . .God, what lies! The day that we got Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some douchey guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Didnt you want to be VP? Like 3 different times? Cuz it seems to me Maybe thats what this is all about . . . Cuz youre so pissed at not being picked You took your ball and went home, you dick! Didnt daddy teach you not to po-ut? Well Birch ran for prez, and he didnt win But that was fine, it didnt affect him He pushed the ERA And wrote Title IX too, OK? And in that lonely year, that gloom of night When Reagan took the country to the right Did Birch give up without a fight? No! He lost, but he wouldnt have Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some sleazy guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Now for 12 years you have warmed your seat And I guess you couldnt stand the heat You ...
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 23461
- author: mhpplf
Evan Bayh calls out Lieberman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 29 Jun 2011
"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for defeat'..."
http://wn.com/Evan_Bayh_calls_out_Lieberman
"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for defeat'..."
- published: 20 Jul 2008
- views: 11842
- author: bmillerdem
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:44
- Updated: 15 Aug 2012
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.
http://wn.com/Senator_Evan_Bayh_D-IN
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.
- published: 28 Aug 2008
- views: 2108
- author: DemConvention
Evan Bayh: Leftist hypocrite
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily Video Commentary #41. This video first premiered on World Net Daily where Jackie does a weekly video column.
http://wn.com/Evan_Bayh_Leftist_hypocrite
Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily Video Commentary #41. This video first premiered on World Net Daily where Jackie does a weekly video column.
- published: 26 Feb 2010
- views: 1961
- author: TheUltimateJew
Evan Bayh Announces Exploratory Committee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:16
- Updated: 20 Mar 2012
Evan Bayh
http://wn.com/Evan_Bayh_Announces_Exploratory_Committee
US Should Bomb Iran - Bayh on Fox News
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:57
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should attack Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down Bayh's motivation. www.washingtonpost.com www.haaretz.com www.google.com thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
http://wn.com/US_Should_Bomb_Iran_Bayh_on_Fox_News
Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should attack Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down Bayh's motivation. www.washingtonpost.com www.haaretz.com www.google.com thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 45165
- author: TheYoungTurks
Sen. Evan Bayh Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election in 2010 Midterm
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:28
- Updated: 06 Feb 2012
Here is complete video of Indiana Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh today announcing his decision to not seek re-election this Fall. Bayh spoke in Indianapolis, surrounded by his family, and said he is an "Executive" at heart, and is frustrated with the tone in Congress, and the inability to get things done for the people. Speculation has already started on whether of not Bayh might decide to oppose President Obama in 2012 for the Democrat Nomination. But Bayh said today his decision should not be taken to reflect negatively on President Obama or his colleauges in Congress. He called his decision a deeply "personal" one.
http://wn.com/Sen_Evan_Bayh_Announces_He_Won't_Seek_Re-Election_in_2010_Midterm
Here is complete video of Indiana Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh today announcing his decision to not seek re-election this Fall. Bayh spoke in Indianapolis, surrounded by his family, and said he is an "Executive" at heart, and is frustrated with the tone in Congress, and the inability to get things done for the people. Speculation has already started on whether of not Bayh might decide to oppose President Obama in 2012 for the Democrat Nomination. But Bayh said today his decision should not be taken to reflect negatively on President Obama or his colleauges in Congress. He called his decision a deeply "personal" one.
- published: 15 Feb 2010
- views: 509
- author: FreedomsLighthouse
Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly Discuss Health Care
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 22 Sep 2012
Video of Sen. Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly's Press Conference at the Schafer Gear Works Plant in South Bend, Indiana.
http://wn.com/Evan_Bayh_and_Joe_Donnelly_Discuss_Health_Care
Video of Sen. Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly's Press Conference at the Schafer Gear Works Plant in South Bend, Indiana.
- published: 03 Nov 2006
- views: 391
- author: evanbayh
Sen. Evan Bayh introduces Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 24 Aug 2010
Sen. Evan Bahy introduces Sen. Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana at Concord High School on Wednesday August 6, 2008. Video courtesy of News Talk 960 WSBT-South Bend.
http://wn.com/Sen_Evan_Bayh_introduces_Barack_Obama_in_Elkhart_Indiana
Sen. Evan Bahy introduces Sen. Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana at Concord High School on Wednesday August 6, 2008. Video courtesy of News Talk 960 WSBT-South Bend.
- published: 06 Aug 2008
- views: 3089
- author: wsbtradiogroup
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:09
- Updated: 03 Nov 2010
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
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Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
- published: 30 Oct 2009
- views: 681
- author: PresidentObama3
Goodbye, Evan Bayh
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:34
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
As Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana announced he won't be seeking re-election in 2010, many are questioning his motives for this decision. Peter Loge, Principal at Milo Public Affairs sits down in studio with Alyona to discuss the possibility that Bayh has simply become fed up with the way things get done in Washington.
http://wn.com/Goodbye,_Evan_Bayh
As Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana announced he won't be seeking re-election in 2010, many are questioning his motives for this decision. Peter Loge, Principal at Milo Public Affairs sits down in studio with Alyona to discuss the possibility that Bayh has simply become fed up with the way things get done in Washington.
- published: 16 Feb 2010
- views: 450
- author: TheAlyonaShow
Bill Maher: Evan Bayh, Obama, Cheney, Socialism
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:57
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Bill Maher was on the Larry King show on Tuesday night (021610) and covered several topics in his usual humorous, irreverent manner including Sen. Evan Bayh's decision to resign, Barack Obama's need for a spine, Dick Cheney's dishonesty, and the evils of socialism in the United States, or not.
http://wn.com/Bill_Maher_Evan_Bayh,_Obama,_Cheney,_Socialism
Bill Maher was on the Larry King show on Tuesday night (021610) and covered several topics in his usual humorous, irreverent manner including Sen. Evan Bayh's decision to resign, Barack Obama's need for a spine, Dick Cheney's dishonesty, and the evils of socialism in the United States, or not.
- published: 18 Feb 2010
- views: 5249
- author: GateKeeper50hotmail
Evan Bayh addresses Indiana about the Presidential Election
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:23
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
You should be with us in 2012, join now: my.barackobama.com Evan Bayh encourages Hoosiers to join Barack Obama's campaign for change at in.barackobama.com
http://wn.com/Evan_Bayh_addresses_Indiana_about_the_Presidential_Election
You should be with us in 2012, join now: my.barackobama.com Evan Bayh encourages Hoosiers to join Barack Obama's campaign for change at in.barackobama.com
- published: 16 Jul 2008
- views: 35466
- author: BarackObamadotcom
Is Senator Evan Bayh Trying to Screw Over Democrats By Retiring So Late?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com
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Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com
- published: 16 Feb 2010
- views: 12148
- author: TheYoungTurks
Headzup: Evan Bayh's "Name That Obstructionist"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
www.headzup.tv Blue Dog Senator Evan Bayh announces the formation of a block of Senate Blue Dogs to fight against the Democratic Party agenda. Some of the block do not want to be named in public. Read more about it here-- http Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at www.headzup.tv
http://wn.com/Headzup_Evan_Bayh's_Name_That_Obstructionist
www.headzup.tv Blue Dog Senator Evan Bayh announces the formation of a block of Senate Blue Dogs to fight against the Democratic Party agenda. Some of the block do not want to be named in public. Read more about it here-- http Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at www.headzup.tv
- published: 19 Mar 2009
- views: 3378
- author: headzup
16:34
Senator Evan Bayh delivers farewell speech
Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked th...
published: 15 Dec 2010
author: SenEvanBayh
Senator Evan Bayh delivers farewell speech
Senator Evan Bayh today delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. He thanked the people of Indiana for the privilege to serve and urged the Senate to work together to meet the gathering challenges facing the United States.
- published: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 7990
- author: SenEvanBayh
7:01
Democratic National Convention- Sen. Evan Bayh
Senator Evan Bayh shakesville.com http...
published: 28 Aug 2008
author: petulantrumble
Democratic National Convention- Sen. Evan Bayh
Senator Evan Bayh shakesville.com http
- published: 28 Aug 2008
- views: 1384
- author: petulantrumble
2:51
AIC 2012 Interview: Evan Bayh, Former Democratic Senator for Indiana
As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the cur...
published: 21 Mar 2012
author: creditsuissevideos
AIC 2012 Interview: Evan Bayh, Former Democratic Senator for Indiana
As growth in the US shows signs of improvement, Evan Bayh outlines the outlook and the current political discourse surrounding this year's US elections.
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 122
- author: creditsuissevideos
1:49
Evan Bayh: Bomb Iran
...
published: 06 Nov 2011
author: ThinkProgress6
Evan Bayh: Bomb Iran
- published: 06 Nov 2011
- views: 1375
- author: ThinkProgress6
0:55
Evan Bayh - spending cuts needed later
Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D...
published: 20 May 2012
author: Todd Feinburg
Evan Bayh - spending cuts needed later
Perhaps this is why Evan Bayh quit the US senate - so he could talk with one foot on the D side and one foot on the R side and not be dragged down by being associated with the Obama years. (He argues for stimulus in the form of middle class tax cuts now, then cuts to social programs later.) 5-20-12
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 19
- author: Todd Feinburg
6:51
CNN Official Interview: Bill Maher to Senator Evan Bayh 'Good riddance'
Bill Maher shares his thoughts on Sen. Evan Bayh, the problems with Congress, contradictor...
published: 17 Feb 2010
author: CNN
CNN Official Interview: Bill Maher to Senator Evan Bayh 'Good riddance'
Bill Maher shares his thoughts on Sen. Evan Bayh, the problems with Congress, contradictory voters and more.
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 3846
- author: CNN
2:00
Joe Donnelly and Evan Bayh campaign together
In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of for...
published: 23 Aug 2012
author: wish
Joe Donnelly and Evan Bayh campaign together
In the race for Indiana's Senate seat, democrat Joe Donnelly is getting the support of former Indiana Governor and US Senator Evan Bayh
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 202
- author: wish
5:34
mr. evan bayh - the song
A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And ...
published: 23 Feb 2010
author: mhpplf
mr. evan bayh - the song
A long, long time ago . . . I can still remember How those Dems used to make me smile And I thought Indianas favorite son Was tough enough to get it done And maybe he could stand firm for a while. But February made me shiver, The news on every blog, plus twitter Bad news on my laptop Weve lost a key Dem backstop I sat there and I rolled my eyes When he said hed finally gotten wise To the ways of Congress . . . .God, what lies! The day that we got Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some douchey guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Didnt you want to be VP? Like 3 different times? Cuz it seems to me Maybe thats what this is all about . . . Cuz youre so pissed at not being picked You took your ball and went home, you dick! Didnt daddy teach you not to po-ut? Well Birch ran for prez, and he didnt win But that was fine, it didnt affect him He pushed the ERA And wrote Title IX too, OK? And in that lonely year, that gloom of night When Reagan took the country to the right Did Birch give up without a fight? No! He lost, but he wouldnt have Bayhd. So Bye, Bye, Mr. Evan Bayh Youre such a loser of a Hoosier That you wont even try. Your daddy was a hero, youre just some sleazy guy Thanks to you, progressivism could die Thanks to you, progressivism could die . . . Now for 12 years you have warmed your seat And I guess you couldnt stand the heat You ...
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 23461
- author: mhpplf
2:45
Evan Bayh calls out Lieberman
"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for ...
published: 20 Jul 2008
author: bmillerdem
Evan Bayh calls out Lieberman
"...Obama is for success in Iraq...I couldn't let Joe get away with that...he is not 'for defeat'..."
- published: 20 Jul 2008
- views: 11842
- author: bmillerdem
6:44
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo...
published: 28 Aug 2008
author: DemConvention
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.
- published: 28 Aug 2008
- views: 2108
- author: DemConvention
4:29
Evan Bayh: Leftist hypocrite
Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily ...
published: 26 Feb 2010
author: TheUltimateJew
Evan Bayh: Leftist hypocrite
Exclusive: Jackie Mason to senator: 'You are a fake, a fraud and a liar'. World Net Daily Video Commentary #41. This video first premiered on World Net Daily where Jackie does a weekly video column.
- published: 26 Feb 2010
- views: 1961
- author: TheUltimateJew
6:57
US Should Bomb Iran - Bayh on Fox News
Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should ...
published: 08 Nov 2011
author: TheYoungTurks
US Should Bomb Iran - Bayh on Fox News
Former Democratic senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News arguing that the United States should attack Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons against Israel. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down Bayh's motivation. www.washingtonpost.com www.haaretz.com www.google.com thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
- published: 08 Nov 2011
- views: 45165
- author: TheYoungTurks
Vimeo results:
5:25
Evan Bayh & Roy Dominguez
Evan Bayh joins police officers and Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez to deliver the keyno...
published: 09 Nov 2011
author: Roy Dominguez
Evan Bayh & Roy Dominguez
Evan Bayh joins police officers and Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez to deliver the keynote address at the National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Societies Memorial March and Service at Judiciary Square in Washington, DC.
6:50
11 - Evan Bayh : Larry Craig
published: 02 Sep 2011
author: Timothy Greenberg
11 - Evan Bayh : Larry Craig
0:00
Evan Bayh Recalls Visiting Walter Reid
During a recent commencement speech at Depauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, Evan Bay...
published: 20 Jun 2006
author: winiaeb
Evan Bayh Recalls Visiting Walter Reid
During a recent commencement speech at Depauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, Evan Bayh recalls his emotional visits to Walter Reid Army Hospital. It is the place most wounded servicemen return to once they get back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:52
Evan Bayh Says Washington Is Broken. Is He Right?
Indiana Senator Evan Bayh (D) says he is retiring because the system in Washington, D.C. i...
published: 16 Feb 2010
author: Talk Radio News Service
Evan Bayh Says Washington Is Broken. Is He Right?
Indiana Senator Evan Bayh (D) says he is retiring because the system in Washington, D.C. is broken. Is he right? TRNS reporter Chingyu Wang asks folks in Capitol Hill what they think. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Youtube results:
8:28
Sen. Evan Bayh Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election in 2010 Midterm
Here is complete video of Indiana Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh today announcing his decision to...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: FreedomsLighthouse
Sen. Evan Bayh Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election in 2010 Midterm
Here is complete video of Indiana Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh today announcing his decision to not seek re-election this Fall. Bayh spoke in Indianapolis, surrounded by his family, and said he is an "Executive" at heart, and is frustrated with the tone in Congress, and the inability to get things done for the people. Speculation has already started on whether of not Bayh might decide to oppose President Obama in 2012 for the Democrat Nomination. But Bayh said today his decision should not be taken to reflect negatively on President Obama or his colleauges in Congress. He called his decision a deeply "personal" one.
- published: 15 Feb 2010
- views: 509
- author: FreedomsLighthouse
5:27
Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly Discuss Health Care
Video of Sen. Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly's Press Conference at the Schafer Gear Works Plan...
published: 03 Nov 2006
author: evanbayh
Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly Discuss Health Care
Video of Sen. Evan Bayh and Joe Donnelly's Press Conference at the Schafer Gear Works Plant in South Bend, Indiana.
- published: 03 Nov 2006
- views: 391
- author: evanbayh
10:01
Sen. Evan Bayh introduces Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana
Sen. Evan Bahy introduces Sen. Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana at Concord High School on W...
published: 06 Aug 2008
author: wsbtradiogroup
Sen. Evan Bayh introduces Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana
Sen. Evan Bahy introduces Sen. Barack Obama in Elkhart Indiana at Concord High School on Wednesday August 6, 2008. Video courtesy of News Talk 960 WSBT-South Bend.
- published: 06 Aug 2008
- views: 3089
- author: wsbtradiogroup
10:09
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow...
published: 30 Oct 2009
author: PresidentObama3
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
Sen. Evan Bayh Yes for Health care Bill Joe Lieberman Lonely Rachel Maddow
- published: 30 Oct 2009
- views: 681
- author: PresidentObama3
photo: AP / Manish
02 Feb 2013
NEW DELHI — A crowd of Tibetans came here to India’s capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet admixture of hope and despair. A grim countdown was under way. The number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibet had reached 99, one short of an anguished milestone. Enlarge This Image. Freetibet.org, via Associated Press ... Related ... Connect With Us on Twitter ... (Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 10.7Kb)
photo: AP / SANA
04 Feb 2013
Tweet. London, Feb. 4 (ANI). Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of trying to 'destabilise' his country. Assad's comments came as he claimed that last week's airstrike showed the Jewish state was behind the revolution seeking to overthrow his regime ... Assad insisted however, that his country could still meet 'current threats and aggression' ... (ANI) ... Israel ... ... ) .. ). ... . . . . . .. . . .. ....(size: 3.0Kb)
photo: UN / John Isaac
04 Feb 2013
About 800,000 people died during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. ....(size: 0.5Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Matthew D. Leistikow
03 Feb 2013
At least 33 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber and two gunmen attacked a police headquarters in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, official sources said, the third major attack in the region in several weeks. By News Wires (text). . A suicide bomber driving a car and gunmen disguised in police uniforms killed at least 33 people in the Iraqi city Kirkuk on Sunday when they tried to storm the police headquarters ... (REUTERS). IRAQ....(size: 8.5Kb)
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
04 Feb 2013
French warplanes have carried out air strikes in Mali's far north as they try to secure the final rebel stronghold of Kidal after a three-week offensive. Thirty jets targeted Islamist militants' training and communication centres around Tessalit - a mountainous area near the Algerian border. French President Francois Hollande has pledged to help rebuild Mali after the rebels who seized its north are beaten ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Xinhua
04 Feb 2013
The nominee took a tongue lashing on Thursday at a Senate hearing -- the Senate is tasked with confirming or rejecting him -- but former Democratic senator Evan Bayh said his confirmation is still likely ... However, Bayh echoed the voice of other supporters who maintained that Hagel's being unprepared for the hearing does not reflect on his competence as a potential defense chief....(size: 5.5Kb)
noodls
01 Feb 2013
(Source. Indiana University) Former Sen. Evan Bayh to speak at IU McKinney School of Law event on financial crisis. INDIANAPOLIS -- Former Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will speak at the Indiana University Robert H ... Bayh's lecture will focus on his experience with the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs during the financial crisis, and his chair position on the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance ... (noodl....(size: 2.9Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
01 Feb 2013
. SATURDAY. Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC. The Chris Matthews Show Michael Duffy; Katty Kay; Howard Fineman; Annie Lowrey. (N) 5 p.m. and Sunday 5.30 a.m. KNBC. McLaughlin Group 6.30 p.m. KCET. SUNDAY. CBS News Sunday Morning Tim McGraw; Robert De Niro; Charles Fazzino. (N) 6 a.m. KCBS. Today A preview of Super Bowl commercials. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC ... Kevin Madden, former Romney campaign advisor; Nina Easton; Laura Ingraham; Evan Bayh ... ....(size: 32.9Kb)
Foreign Policy
01 Feb 2013
It was rough sledding for Hagel. But his camp says they weren't surprised by Chuck Hagel's appearance on Capitol Hill yesterday, at once dramatic and tedious as his former colleagues and other senators repeatedly questioned him about Iraq, Israel, and Iran. It may be the price he pays for confirmation, which still seems inevitable. One Hagelian close to the process told Situation Report. "I saw no real surprises ... Brooks ... Evan Bayh ... ....(size: 9.0Kb)
Indianapolis Star
31 Jan 2013
Advocates for children, along with lawmakers in both parties, were hailing Mary Beth Bonaventura, Gov. Mike Pences pick to head Indianas Department of Child Services ... protecting children from abuse and neglect. Pence called Bonaventura uniquely qualified to head DCS ... Evan Bayh, and has also served on state panels that address childrens civil rights, welfare and services ... Staying at the agency to assist her is John Ryan ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
noodls
31 Jan 2013
(Source. State of Indiana). inShare. Entry Description. Indianapolis, IN-Governor Mike Pence today named Mary Beth Bonaventura as the head of the Department of Child Services. Bonaventura will join Pence's administration as Director of the Department of Child Services ... Bonaventura was appointed Senior Judge in 1993 by then-Governor Evan Bayh after having served more than a decade as Magistrate in the Juvenile Court....(size: 2.4Kb)
Foreign Policy
31 Jan 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the final major speech of her tenure Thursday to a packed house at the Council of Foreign Relations' offices in Washington in advance of her successor John Kerry's official swearing-in ceremony Friday ... So these last days have been bittersweet for me." ... Evan Bayh ... We have also revitalized American diplomacy and strengthened our alliances ... Security Council ... "Oh my goodness." ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
Indianapolis Star
30 Jan 2013
Gov. Mike Pence has picked Lake County Juvenile Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura to head the states agency that seeks to protect abused and neglected children. Pence said Bonaventura is uniquely qualified to head the Department of Child Services. She has been a juvenile judge since 1993, when she was appointed to the bench by Gov. Evan Bayh, and has served on several panels that address childrens civil rights, welfare and services....(size: 2.3Kb)
MSNBC
30 Jan 2013
Governor Mike Pence has named Lake County Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura to direct the troubled Indiana Department of Child Services. Pence said Wednesday that Bonaventura "is a strong leader who has an impeccable reputation of integrity and compassion for children." ... Former Gov. Evan Bayh appointed her to that position in 1993 ... The agency has come under fire for not doing enough to protect at-risk children ... Advertise . AdChoices. Advertise ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
30 Jan 2013
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Gov ... The East Chicago native, appointed the senior judge of Lake Superior Court's Juvenile Division by former Gov. Evan Bayh in 1993, has been a leader in statewide efforts to improve the lives of children, chairing the Civil Rights of Children Committee for the Indiana State Bar Association and the Child Welfare Improvement Committee of the Indiana courts ... Linda Lawson, D-Hammond ... ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
Indianapolis Star
27 Jan 2013
First, the confessions.. In the grips of the Great Recession, I agreed with the argument behind a huge federal stimulus bill and with the belief that bailing out some of the nation's key industries did more good than harm. And I still do. In the midst of great debates about education, I have argued that Indiana is foolish to not join all of the other states that invest in preschool programs ... Evan Bayh's administration ... Gov ... Wednesday ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
Indianapolis Star
26 Jan 2013
The Common Core academic standards, the subject of fervent debate in the Statehouse, looks like an earlier education reform initiative called IPASS. Gov. Evan Bayh wanted proposed a new standardized test, called IPASS, to replace ISTEP in 1995. It was supposed to be more in depth and require students to write essays, not answer just multiple-choice questions ... Common Core sets standards that seem reasonable ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)
Indianapolis Star
22 Jan 2013
Abortion has been a controversial topic for much of the past 100 years, but 40 years ago today the debate over abortion entered a new arena when the Supreme Court issued its monumental Roe v. Wade decision ... A timeline below details major developments in Indiana ... Mike Fichter, president and CEO of Indiana Right to Life ... Wade ... Gov. Evan Bayh vetoes a bill providing for an 18-hour waiting period ... The Indiana Senate overrides Bayh's veto. Aug....(size: 4.3Kb)
| Evan Bayh | |
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| United States Senator from Indiana |
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| In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Dan Coats |
| Succeeded by | Dan Coats |
| 46th Governor of Indiana | |
| In office January 9, 1989 – January 13, 1997 |
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| Lieutenant | Frank O'Bannon |
| Preceded by | Robert D. Orr |
| Succeeded by | Frank O'Bannon |
| 56th Secretary of State of Indiana | |
| In office December 1, 1986 – January 9, 1989 |
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| Governor | Robert D. Orr |
| Preceded by | Edwin J. Simcox |
| Succeeded by | Joe Hogsett |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Birch Evans Bayh III (1955-12-26) December 26, 1955 (age 56) Shirkieville, Indiana |
| Nationality | United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Bayh |
| Children | Birch Evans Bayh IV Nicholas Harrison Bayh |
| Residence | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Alma mater | Indiana University (B.S.) University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Signature |  |
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III (pronounced /ˈbaɪ/ BY; born December 26, 1955) is a lawyer, advisor and former Democratic politician who served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997.
Bayh first held public office as the Secretary of State of Indiana, elected in 1986. He held the position for only two years before being elected Governor where he successfully advocated for state welfare reform, tax cuts, and fiscal discipline. He left his office after completing two terms and briefly took a job lecturing at Indiana University Kelley School of Business, before being elected to the U.S. Senate seat once held by his father, Birch Bayh.
On February 15, 2010, Bayh announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. After leaving the Senate, he became a partner with the law firm McGuireWoods in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. He also serves as a senior adviser with Apollo Global Management. He was hired as a Fox News contributor in March 2011.[1]
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Personal[link]
Bayh was born in Shirkieville, Indiana, to Birch Bayh, who was a U.S. Senator from 1963 to 1981, and his wife Marvella Belle Hern. Bayh attended St. Albans School in Washington, DC, and graduated with honors in business economics and public policy from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in 1978. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Bayh has an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in California.
He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981, and clerked for a federal judge before entering private law practice in Indianapolis.
Bayh and his wife, Susan, have twin sons, born in 1995.[2] Susan Bayh serves on numerous corporate boards, including health insurance giant Wellpoint.[3][4]
Indiana state politics[link]
Bayh was elected Secretary of State of Indiana in 1986 and served from 1987 to 1989.
Bayh was first elected Governor of Indiana in 1988, defeating former Kokomo Mayor Steve Daily in the Democratic primary. Evan Bayh was the first Democrat to serve as Governor of Indiana in 20 years. (Frank O'Bannon's name also appeared on the ballot, but he had previously withdrawn to accept the lieutenant governor nomination.) Bayh defeated Republican John Mutz in the general election. Bayh was re-elected governor in 1992 with the highest percentage of the vote in a statewide election in modern Indiana history. He defeated State Attorney General Linley E. Pearson, a Republican, to win his second term. His administration was considered cautious but successful by Republicans as well as Democrats, creating a large budget surplus and permitting him to cut taxes. "Mr. Bayh's record is one of a genuinely fiscally conservative Democrat," reported the Wall Street Journal in 1992.[5]
Stressing fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, job creation and lean government, Bayh's tenure as governor was highlighted by eight years without raising taxes, the largest single tax cut and largest budget surplus in state history, "welfare-to-work" policies, increasing annual school funding, high academic standards and new college opportunities, the strengthening of law enforcement and improved environmental quality.[6] He signed the 21st Century Scholars Act in 1992, legislation that states that every child in Indiana who is eligible for the free lunch program in a public school, graduates from high school and signs a pledge not to experiment with illegal drugs is entitled to a full tuition scholarship to an Indiana public university of his or her choice. By the end of his second term, Bayh had an approval rating of nearly 80 percent.[7]
Bayh was a vocal supporter of capital punishment.[8]
When his second term as governor ended in 1997, he accepted a lecturing position at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Bloomington.[9] From 1997 to 1998, while he was campaigning for U.S. Senate, Bayh was also hired as a partner at Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels. In 1998, his Baker & Daniels salary was $265,000, according to Senate financial records. Indiana University paid him an additional $51,000 that year.[10]
United States Senator from Indiana[link]
File:Evan Bayh campaign logo.jpg
2004 campaign logo
Bayh was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998 to the seat that was once held by his father. He won with 64% of the vote, the largest margin ever recorded for a Democrat in a U.S. Senate race in Indiana, defeating former Fort Wayne Mayor Paul Helmke. He easily won reelection in 2004, defeating Prof. Marvin Scott, receiving 62% of the vote--in the process, becoming only the fourth Indiana Democrat to be popularly elected to a second term in the Senate. Bayh's victory was even more remarkable since George W. Bush carried the state handily in his bid for a second term.
During his Senate career, Bayh served on five Senate committees: Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, on which he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Small Business Committee.
Bayh released an autobiography in 2003 entitled From Father to Son: A Private Life in the Public Eye. He describes growing up as the son of Senator Birch Bayh and emphasizes the importance of active, responsible fatherhood.
Bayh was known as a leading moderate Democrat. From 2001 to 2005, Bayh served as Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). He is also a member of the Senate Centrist Coalition, helped establish the New Democrat Coalition, and founded the Moderate Dems Working Group.[11] Bayh also served on the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy.[12]
Bayh voted against confirming United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.[citation needed]
Bayh was an early supporter of the Bush administration's policies on Iraq.[13] On October 2, 2002, Bayh joined President George W. Bush and Congressional leaders in a Rose Garden ceremony announcing their agreement on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, and was thanked by Bush and Senator John McCain for co-sponsoring the resolution.[14]
Senator Bayh began asking for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation in 2004 for his mistakes in the Iraq war. Bayh made it clear that he had lost confidence in Rumsfeld.[15]
He voted yes on reauthorizing the Patriot Act in 2006.[16]
In the aftermath of the Financial crisis of 2007–2010, Bayh joined with his fellow senators in hurrying to bail out U.S. financial institutions. Addressing the launch of the No Labels political organization, he "described a scene from 2008 where Ben Bernanke warned senators that the sky would collapse if the banks weren't rescued. 'We looked at each other,' said Bayh, 'and said, okay, what do we need.'"[17]
Retirement[link]
On February 15, 2010, Bayh announced he would not seek reelection to a third Senate term in the November 2, 2010 midterm election. Bayh's announcement came very shortly after former Senator Dan Coats declared his own candidacy for Bayh's Senate seat. [18] Because he made his announcement the day before the deadline for filing for the primary, no Democrat was able to gather a sufficient number of signatures to qualify for the primary ballot, so the state party committee chose Congressman Brad Ellsworth as the nominee.[19][20]
On March 14, 2011, it was announced that Bayh would become a contributor to Fox News Channel.[21]
Committee assignments[link]
- Committee on Armed Services
- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- Select Committee on Intelligence
- Special Committee on Aging
Relationship between his Senate office and wife's corporate career[link]
His wife Susan Bayh has been described by the Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal Gazette as a "professional board member" or "professional director", having been a director of fourteen corporations since 1994 and being a director of eight as of 2006.[22] The Journal Gazette reported that since Susan Bayh began her career as a corporate director, “Sen. Evan Bayh [has] cast more than 3,000 votes, including some on issues of keen interest to the pharmaceutical, broadcast, insurance, food-distribution and finance industries",[23] Since 2003, Sen. Bayh has prohibited his staff from having lobbying contacts with his wife or representatives of the companies she directs. Mrs. Bayh makes very few public statements and has not commented on any perceived conflicts of interest, declining to be interviewed by the Journal Gazette. Sen. Bayh, however, has insisted his wife’s ties have had no bearing on his Congressional actions. “The reality is I don’t even know the people who run the vast majority of her companies. I’ve never even spoken to them,” Bayh told the Journal Gazette. “The reality is, we don’t talk about stuff that she’s involved with.”[23]
2008 U.S. presidential election[link]
Main article: Evan Bayh presidential campaign, 2008
Further information: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 and Democratic Party (United States) vice presidential candidates, 2008
On December 1, 2006, news sources revealed that Senator Bayh was creating a presidential exploratory committee.[24] Bayh confirmed these reports on December 3.[25] On December 15, 2006, Bayh announced that he would not run for president in 2008.[citation needed] He later endorsed Hillary Clinton.[26]
During the 2008 United States Presidential campaign, Bayh stated that he would accept an offer to be Barack Obama's running mate.[27] According to a book by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, it was about a coin toss between Bayh and Joe Biden for Obama's pick for Vice President.[28]
Political positions[link]
Abortion[link]
Bayh has a 100% rating by the NARAL.[29] He ultimately voted in favor of banning dilation and extraction abortion procedures in 2003, but he did vote for substitute measures supported by Democrats. His stance on other issues relating to abortion have been mixed also.[30] He voted with mainly Democrats against Laci and Conner's Law, but voted with mainly Republicans in 2006 on legislation to notify parents on abortions performed on minors that involve crossing state lines.[30]
Agriculture[link]
Bayh voted for the 2002 Farm Bill that provided financial support accessible to rural communities. The bill provides funds for rural water and waste infrastructure. The Farm Bill also provides technology for rural residents' technical skills.[31] Bayh encouraged farmers to share their input into the 2007 Farm Bill.[32]
Civil rights[link]
Bayh has a mixed but left-leaning record on civil rights, having earned a 60% by the ACLU (2002), and 89% by the HRC (2006), and a 100% by the NAACP (2006). Some of his votes include a 1998 vote where Bayh voted to continue nonquota affirmative action programs. He voted to add sexual orientation under hate crime rules in both 2000 and 2002. In 2001, he voted yes to ease wiretapping restrictions. In 2006, he voted yes on a flag-burning constitutional amendment and no on an amendment to ban same-sex marriage.[30]
Economy[link]
As a member of the Small Business Committee, Senator Bayh has made more resources and tools available to Indiana's small businesses. Bayh supports small business in Indiana by co-hosting job fairs throughout the state of Indiana. Several thousand jobs are made available to those who attend.[33][34][35] In 2003, Bayh introduced legislation to further expand Small Business Administration loans to small manufacturers. The legislation was enacted into law in 2004.
At a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Bayh said:
- What concerns me most about President Bush's tax and budget proposals, is that they threaten to undermine the foundation of the '90s' prosperity – replacing the "virtuous cycle" created by fiscal responsibility with a "vicious cycle" of deficits and debt, rising interest rates, and disinvestment. His proposals constitute a narrow ideological agenda, not an effective economic strategy, and completely fail to grasp the realities of the New Economy and the many requirements for economic success in the 21st Century.[36]
Education[link]
As governor, Bayh created the 21st Century Scholars program, which promises at-risk middle school students full tuition scholarships in return for being drug, alcohol and crime-free and maintaining decent grades. Iowa and Wisconsin have both introduced legislation modeling Bayh's program.[37][38] Bayh has worked to increase the college tuition tax deduction, and protect and increase financial aid programs that thousands of students depend on to attend college. In 2000, Senator Bayh authored a bill titled "The Three R's," which was designed to improve the ability of our nation's public schools to meet the needs of each student.[39]
At the 1996 Democratic National Convention Keynote Speech, Bayh said:
- I come from teachers. My great, great grandfather Christopher Bayh came to Indiana with a yellow tag in his overalls that said, railroad. Because he couldn't speak any English, that's where he went to work. But his first grandson became a teacher and he married a teacher, my grandmother. No one here tonight would have traveled half as far if it weren't for our teachers. They're the real American heroes.[40]
Energy[link]
On September 11, 2008, Bayh joined the Gang of 20, a bipartisan group designed to promote comprehensive energy reform. During the announcement, Bayh said:
- “On the seventh anniversary of September 11th, it is deeply troubling that we import more oil from the Middle East today than we did on the day of the attacks. Ensuring families have access to affordable energy is one of the defining challenges of our time, but Washington is stuck. The process to fix this problem has broken down, and we just can’t afford that anymore. I’m joining this substantial group of Republicans and Democrats to make progress and actually get something done for struggling Hoosier motorists.”[41]
Environment[link]
Voted No on prohibiting eminent domain for use as parks or grazing land (December 2007).[30]
Voted Yes on including oil and gas smokestacks in mercury regulations (September 2005).[30]
Rated 74% by the League of Conservation Voters, indicating pro-environment votes (December 2003).[30]
Voted No on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior (January 2001).[30]
Voted No on more funding for forest roads and fish habitat (September 1999).[30]
Voted to strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting (January 2007).[30]
Voted to restrict the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions (June 2010).
Health care[link]
Bayh introduced the Medicare Prescription Drug Emergency Guarantee Act of 2006 to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to assure uninterrupted access to necessary medicines under the Medicare prescription drug program.[42] Senator Bayh is proposing legislation he says could help cut health care insurance premiums by at least 20 percent for small businesses and individuals.[43]
Israel[link]
Speaking to 2002 luncheon hosted by AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby group, Bayh "described his lifelong affection for the state of Israel, beginning with a boyhood vacation there, and deepening with his many official visits as a governor and senator."[44] A report of the luncheon continued:
- The senator also stated his support for increased foreign aid to Israel. "We have to make the kind of investments necessary to prevent loss of life," he said. "Israel is in jeopardy, they're a strong ally of ours, and I think there would be congressional support for further aid to Israel, particularly regarding security issues."
- On the subject of the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, he said, "Yasser Arafat is no partner for peace. Not until there is new and better leadership within the Palestinians will there be a chance for peace."[44]
Iran[link]
Evan Bayh appeared on CNN's Late Edition in January 2006[45] and referred to the "radical, almost delusional nature of the Iranian regime" and recent comments of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a "myth. [...] To deny history like this, this virulent anti-Semitism, their sponsoring of terrorism, their search for a nuclear weapon – ought to be a wake-up call to every American. Appeasement won't work. [...] We need to use diplomacy, economic sanctions, other means, so we won't have to resort to military action."[45]
Bayh introduced legislation in January 2006 that would impose sanctions on Iran. According to the Washington Post:[46]
- "Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.) said yesterday that he plans to introduce a resolution in the Senate calling on the administration to work with the United Nations to sanction the country. Bayh said the sanctions should include shutting off supplies of refined gasoline, a worldwide ban on arms sales, and a possible ban on participation in the Olympics and the World Cup soccer tournament."[46]
On January 20, 2006, Bayh introduced a resolution calling for economic sanctions on Iran, with the goal of deterring Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Such sanctions include:
- Cutting off supplies of refined gasoline to Iran which the United States currently does not supply
- Cutting assistance to countries whose companies invest in Iran's energy sector,
- Enacting a worldwide, comprehensive ban on arms sales to Iran,
- Withdrawing U.S. support for Iran's accession to the WTO, and
- Calling on the UN Security Council to limit travel of some Iranian officials, reduce diplomatic exchanges with Iran, and ban Iran from participating in world events such as the World Cup and the Olympics.[47]
In 2007, Bayh "supported the Kyl-Lieberman amendment that Obama made a key part of his critique of Clinton."[48][49]
Iraq[link]
Bayh was an early supporter of the idea of removing Saddam from power for humanitarian reasons.[13] On October 2, 2002, Bayh joined President George W. Bush and Congressional leaders in a Rose Garden ceremony announcing their agreement on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, and was thanked by Bush and Senator John McCain for co-sponsoring the resolution.[14] Later, in 2006, Bayh criticized the conduct of the Iraq War:
- It is clear to just about everyone but the die-hard neoconservatives within this administration that shifting our focus away from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein was perhaps the biggest strategic blunder in our nation's history. And while we have been preoccupied with Iraq, under this President, North Korea has gone nuclear and Iran is on the verge of doing so.[50]
A blog from The Washington Post reported that in February 2006 Bayh was quoted saying: "We've got to be somewhere between 'cut and run' ... and mindlessly staying the course. You've got to have a sensible middle ground."[51]
National debt[link]
In a speech entitled "The American Middle Class: Future of the Nation, Future of the Democratic Party," Bayh said:
- The [Bush] Administration has increased the national debt by nearly $3 trillion, money our middle class and children must repay with interest. They borrow from Japan, China, Persian Gulf countries, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, even Mexico. They are mortgaging our future. This is not how great leaders act.[52]
National security[link]
Bayh is a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Select Intelligence Committee and is continually monitoring the progress of national security abroad, as U.S. troops continue operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bayh has emphasized national security as an important issue:
- In a post-September 11th world, our first responsibility is to keep the American public as safe as possible and to be prepared for every possible threat.... Preventing and responding to biological attacks will require us to mobilize all available resources at the federal and state level, and the first line of defense is often state governments.[53]
At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bayh said:
- As an American, I welcome this debate on national security because in an age of global terror, there is nothing more important than protecting the American people. It is a dangerous world – 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11th. Suicidal terrorists have pledged to attack again – and they have in London, Madrid, Amman, Bali, and across Iraq. North Korea has expanded its nuclear arsenal. Hamas will soon be in charge of the Palestinian Authority. And the radical leader of Iran who is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons – has pledged to destroy Israel and asked his people to imagine a world without the United States.[54]
Trade[link]
During his time in the Senate, Bayh has criticized trade policies of some countries, including China. Bayh's bipartisan Stopping Overseas Subsidies (SOS) Act was intended to allow the United States to enforce its antisubsidy laws abroad. He voted against CAFTA.[55]
Bayh placed a hold on the President's nominee to be the U.S. Trade Representative. After receiving several key commitments from Portman to get tough on China trade, Bayh agreed to release his hold.[56]
Electoral history[link]
| Indiana Secretary of State, 1986 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Evan Bayh | 828,494 | 53.3% | |
| Republican | Robert Bowen | 704,952 | 45.4% | |
| American | Linda Paterson | 10,224 | 0.7% | |
| Libertarian | Karen Benson | 10,180 | 0.7% | |
| Democratic Nomination for Governor of Indiana, 1988 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Evan Bayh | 493,198 | 83.1% | ||
| Stephen Daily | 66,242 | 11.2% | ||
| Frank O'Bannon | 34,360 | 5.8% | ||
| Governor of Indiana, 1988 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Evan Bayh | 1,138,574 | 53.2% | |
| Republican | John Mutz | 1,002,207 | 46.8% | |
| Governor of Indiana, 1992 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Evan Bayh (incumbent) | 1,382,151 | 62.0% | |
| Republican | Linley Pearson | 822,533 | 36.9% | |
| New Alliance | Mary Barton | 24,378 | 1.1% | |
| U.S. Senator from Indiana (Class 3), 1998 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Evan Bayh | 1,012,244 | 63.7% | |
| Republican | Paul Helmke | 552,732 | 34.8% | |
| Libertarian | Rebecca Sink-Burris | 23,641 | 1.5% | |
| U.S. Senator from Indiana (Class 3), 2004 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Evan Bayh | 1,488,782 | 61.6% | |
| Republican | Marvin Scott | 902,108 | 37.3% | |
| Libertarian | Albert Barger | 27,891 | 1.2% | |
Books by Evan Bayh[link]
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "Evan Bayh joins Fox News". Politico. http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0311/Evan_Bayh_joins_Fox_News.html. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- ^ "Evan Bayh Biography". United States Senate. http://bayh.senate.gov/about/biography/. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- ^ and was for many years a law professor
- ^ "Susan Bayh Profile – Forbes.com." Forbes.com. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ [1]." Moore, Stephen. "The Good Governor Guide. " Wall Street Journal 5 Feb. 1992, Eastern edition: ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest. Web. 5 August 2009.
- ^ https://futurefinance.wsj.com/participant.php?bio=48 Future of Finance Initiative-Evan Bayh
- ^ Evan Bayh – a Star Library biography
- ^ http://google.com/search?q=cache:37oMoZyaZaYJ:blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/23/meet-the-democratic-vp-prospect-evan-bayh/tab/article/+Meet+the+Democratic+VP+Prospect:+Evan+Bayh&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Meet the Democratic VP Prospect: Evan Bayh(Cached copy)
- ^ "Library Factfiles: Evan Bayh." Indianapolis Star, updated December 15, 2006. Retrieved March 7, 2007.
- ^ "1998 Financial Disclosure." Open Secrets, 1999. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
- ^ Press release: Moderate Senate Dems Launch New Group to Shape Public Policy
- ^ http://google.com/search?q=cache:ir02-pPzx_0J:www.thirdway.org/leadership/senate_chairs/evan_bayh+Bayh+serves+on+the+Board+of+Directors+of+the+National+Endowment+for+Democracy&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Thirdway.org Our Honorary Chairs(cached copy)
- ^ a b Bayh, Evan (August 18, 2002). "Making the case to remove Hussein from power; Silence can pose even greater risk" (paid archive). Chicago Tribune: p. 9 (Commentary). http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/151965541.html?dids=151965541:151965541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT. Retrieved 2008-07-25. Firestone, David (October 1, 2002). "Democrats seek compromise with White House on Iraq". The New York Times: p. 19. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E0DA1238F932A35753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-07-25. Groppe, Maureen (October 1, 2002). "Iraq puts senators in surprising roles; Bayh backs Bush, while Lugar openly questions strategy" (paid archive). The Indianapolis Star: p. A01. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=indystar&f_site=indystar&f_sitename=Indianapolis+Star%2FNews%2C+The+%28IN%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=IN&p_action=search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=customized&p_text_base-0=Iraq+puts+senators+in+surprising+roles&p_field_base-0=title&p_bool_base-1=AND&p_text_base-1=&p_field_base-1=&p_bool_base-2=AND&p_text_base-2=&p_field_base-2=&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_text_YMD_date-0=&p_field_YMD_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_YMD_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&Search=Search. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ a b Office of the Press Secretary (October 2, 2002). "President, House Leadership Agree on Iraq Resolution". The White House. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-7.html. Retrieved 2008-07-25. Schneider, Mary Beth (October 3, 2002). "Bayh co-sponsors resolution on Iraq" (paid archive). The Indianapolis Star: p. A01. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=indystar&f_site=indystar&f_sitename=Indianapolis+Star%2FNews%2C+The+%28IN%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=IN&p_action=search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=customized&p_text_base-0=Bayh+co-sponsors+resolution+on+Iraq&p_field_base-0=&p_bool_base-1=AND&p_text_base-1=&p_field_base-1=&p_bool_base-2=AND&p_text_base-2=&p_field_base-2=&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_text_YMD_date-0=&p_field_YMD_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_YMD_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&Search=Search. Retrieved 2008-07-25. Tackett, Michael (October 3, 2002). "Bush, House OK Iraq deal; Congress marches with Bush" (paid archive). Chicago Tribune: p. 1. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/203569641.html?dids=203569641:203569641&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ Evan Bayh says Rumsfeld must go
- ^ Evan Bayh on the Issues
- ^ Weigel, David (2010-12-13) Why Glenn Beck is Like Evan Bayh, Slate.com
- ^ Bayh Announces He Will Not Seek a Third Senate Term
- ^ Cillizza, Chris (February 15, 2010). "Evan Bayh won't seek re-election, Senate majority in play?". The Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/evan-bayh-to-retire.html. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ Martin, Jonathan (February 15, 2010). "Challenger adds to post-Bayh chaos". Politico. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32990.html.
- ^ Mirkinson, Jack (March 14, 2011). "Fox News Signs Former Senator Evan Bayh As A Contributor". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/fox-news-evan-bayh_n_835521.html.
- ^ Across the boards-Bayh says wife's corporate roles hold no sway over his votes
- ^ a b Smith, Sylvia (December 16, 2007). "Across the boards". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/LOCAL1004/712160424. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ 6abc.com: Bayh Signals White House Run 12/01/06
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5978.html
- ^ Montanaro, Domenico (2008-06-25). "Bayh: ‘Yes’ to VP". MSNBC. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/25/1167591.aspx.
- ^ "Bayh was about a 'coin toss' away from being veep, book says". The Indianapolis Star. November 1, 2009. http://www.indystar.com/article/20091101/NEWS05/911010340/Book++Bayh+a++coin+toss++away+from+being+veep. Retrieved 2009-11-09. [dead link]
- ^ Evan Bayh Congressional Record on Choice
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Evan Bayh on the Issues
- ^ USDA 2002 Farm Bill Information Page
- ^ USDA 2007 Farm Bill
- ^ Senator Evan Bayh Co-hosting Job Fair at Glendale Mall
- ^ Senator Evan Bayh Promotes Small Businesses at IPFW
- ^ Senate approval
- ^ Remarks by Sen. Evan Bayh to the Commonwealth Club of California – April 10, 2001
- ^ 21st Century Scholars
- ^ Bayh Praises Wisconsin, Iowa for New Legislation Based on 21st Century Scholars
- ^ New Dems Reintroduce Three R's Education Bill
- ^ AUGUST 26, 1996 1996 Democratic Convention Keynote Speech
- ^ SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 Bayh Energy Announcement
- ^ S. 2238: Medicare Prescription Drug Emergency Guarantee Act of 2006
- ^ Bayh Proposes Legislation to Ease Rising Cost of Healthcare
- ^ a b j. – Sen. Evan Bayh stands with Israel at S.F. AIPAC lunch
- ^ a b CNN.com – Senators: Military last option on Iran – Jan 16, 2006
- ^ a b Sen. Clinton Urges U.N. Sanctions Against Iran – washingtonpost.com
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- ^ TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
- ^ U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote
- ^ Nuclear Gloom and Doom – Early Warning
- ^ Chris Cilliza (2008-07-23). "The Fix – The Case Against Evan Bayh". The Washington Post. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/07/the_case_against_evan_bayh.html.
- ^ The American Middle Class:Future of the Nation, Future of the Democratic Party – July 17, 2006
- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11133256/ Bayh challenges Rove – and Clinton, too?
- ^ Address to the Center for Strategic and International Studies – February 2, 2006
- ^ UAW applauds Bayh's call for tariffs on China
- ^ Bayh lifts block on trade post
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- Congressional profile at GovTrack
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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronunciation: /ˈdʒoʊsɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942) is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation, and is the 15th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008, both times dropping out early in the race. Barack Obama selected Biden to be the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States. As Vice President, Biden has been heavily involved in Obama's decision-making process and held the oversight role for infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package aimed at counteracting the late-2000s recession. His ability to negotiate with Congressional Republicans played a key role in bringing about the bipartisan deals that resulted in the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 that resolved a taxation deadlock and the Budget Control Act of 2011 that resolved the United States debt ceiling crisis.
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Early life and education[link]
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,[1] the son of Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr. (1915–2002)[2] and Catherine Eugenia "Jean" (née Finnegan; 1917–2010).[3] He was the first of four siblings[1] in a Catholic family. His mother was of Irish descent, with roots in County Londonderry.[4][5][6] His paternal grandparents, Mary Elizabeth (Robinette) and Joseph H. Biden, an oil businessman from Baltimore, had English, Irish, and French ancestry.[7] He has two brothers, James Brian Biden and Francis W. Biden, and a sister, Valerie (Biden) Owens.[8] His maternal great-grandfather, Edward F. Blewitt, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.[9]
Biden's father had been very well-off earlier in his life, but had suffered several business reverses by the time Biden was born,[10] and for several years the family had to live with Biden's maternal grandparents, the Finnegans.[10] When the Scranton area went into economic decline during the 1950s, Biden's father could not find enough work.[11] In 1953, the Biden family moved to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, where they lived for a few years before moving to a house in Wilmington, Delaware.[10] Joe Biden Sr. then did better as a used car salesman, and the family's circumstances were middle class.[10][11][12]
Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont,[13] where he was a standout halfback/wide receiver on the high school football team; he helped lead a perennially losing team to an undefeated season in his senior year.[10][14] He played on the baseball team as well.[10] During these years, he participated in an anti-segregation sit-in at a Wilmington theatre.[15] Academically, Biden was undistinguished,[10] but he was a natural leader among the students.[16] He graduated in 1961.[13]
Biden attended the University of Delaware in Newark, where he was more interested in sports and socializing than in studying,[10] although his classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities.[15] He played halfback with the Blue Hens freshman football team,[14] but he dropped a junior year plan to play for the varsity team as a defensive back, enabling him to spend more time with his out-of-state girlfriend.[14][17] He double majored in history and political science and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965,[1] ranking 506th of 688 in his class.[18]
He went on to receive his Juris Doctor from Syracuse University's College of Law in 1968,[19] where by his own description he found it to be "the biggest bore in the world" and pulled many all-nighters to get by.[15][20] During his first year there, he was accused of having plagiarized 5 of 15 pages of a law review article. Biden said it was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and he was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.[20] He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969.[19]
Biden received five student draft deferments during this period, with the first coming in late 1963 and the last in early 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War.[21] In April 1968, he was reclassified by the Selective Service System as not available for service due to having had asthma as a teenager.[21][22] Biden was not a part of the anti-Vietnam War movement; he would later say that at the time he was preoccupied with marriage and law school, and that he "wore sports coats ... not tie-dyed".[23]
Negative impressions of drinking alcohol in the Biden and Finnegan families and in the neighborhood led to Joe Biden becoming a teetotaler.[10][24] Biden suffered from stuttering through much of his childhood and into his twenties;[25] he overcame it via long hours spent reciting poetry in front of a mirror.[16]
Family and early political career[link]
On August 27, 1966, Biden, then a law student, married Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York and had attended Syracuse University.[1][10][26] They had met in 1964 while on spring break in the Bahamas, and he had overcome her parents' initial reluctance for her to be dating a Roman Catholic.[27] They had three children, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III (born 1969), Robert Hunter (born 1970), and Naomi Christina (born 1971).[1]
In 1969, Biden began practicing law in Wilmington, Delaware, first as a public defender and then with his own firm, Biden and Walsh.[15] Corporate law, however, did not appeal to him and criminal law did not pay well.[10] He supplemented his income by managing properties.[28] He ran as a Democrat for the New Castle County Council on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburban area.[15] He won by a solid margin in the usually Republican district,[15] and served from 1970 to 1972[19] while continuing his private law practice as well.[29]
His entry into the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware presented Biden with a unique circumstance. Longtime Delaware political figure and Republican incumbent Senator J. Caleb Boggs was considering retirement, which would likely have left U.S. Representative Pete du Pont and Wilmington Mayor Harry G. Haskell, Jr. in a divisive primary fight. To avoid that, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support.[30] No other Democrat wanted to run against Boggs.[15] Biden's campaign had virtually no money and was given no chance of winning.[10] It was managed by his sister Valerie Biden Owens (who would go on to manage his future campaigns as well) and staffed by other members of his family, and relied upon handed-out newsprint position papers and meeting voters face-to-face;[31] the small size of the state and lack of a major media market made the approach feasible.[28] Biden did receive some assistance from the AFL-CIO and Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell.[15] Biden's campaign issues focused on withdrawal from Vietnam, the environment, civil rights, mass transit, more equitable taxation, health care, the public's dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual, and "change".[15][31] During the summer Biden trailed by almost 30 percentage points,[15] but his energy level, his attractive young family, and his ability to connect with voters' emotions gave the surging Biden an advantage over the ready-to-retire Boggs.[12] Biden won the November 7, 1972 election in an upset by a margin of 3,162 votes.[31]
On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware.[1] Neilia Biden's station wagon was hit by a tractor-trailer as she pulled out from an intersection; the truck driver was cleared of any wrongdoing.[32] Biden's two sons, Beau and Hunter, were critically injured in the accident, but both eventually made full recoveries.[1] Biden considered resigning to care for them;[12] he was persuaded not to by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and others and was sworn into office from one of their bedsides.[33] The accident left Biden filled with both anger and religious doubt: "I liked to [walk around seedy neighborhoods] at night when I thought there was a better chance of finding a fight ... I had not known I was capable of such rage ... I felt God had played a horrible trick on me."[34]
To be at home every day for his young sons,[35] Biden began the practice of commuting every day by Amtrak train for 1½ hours each way from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, D.C., which he continued to do throughout his Senate career.[12] In the aftermath of the accident, he had trouble focusing on work, and appeared to just go through the motions of being a senator. In his memoirs, Biden notes that staffers were taking bets on how long he would last.[26][36] A single father for five years, Biden left standing orders that he be interrupted in the Senate at any time if his sons called.[33] In remembrance of his wife and daughter, Biden does not work on December 18, the anniversary of the accident.[37] Biden's elder son, Beau, later became Delaware Attorney General and an Army Judge Advocate serving in Iraq;[38] his younger son, Hunter, became a Washington attorney and lobbyist.[39]
In 1975, Biden met Jill Tracy Jacobs, who grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and would become a teacher in Delaware.[40] They had met on a blind date with the help of Biden's brother, although it turned out that Biden had already noticed her in a local advertisement.[40] Biden would credit her with renewing his interest in both politics and life.[41] On June 17, 1977, Biden and Jacobs married.[1] They have one daughter, Ashley Blazer (born 1981),[1] who later became a social worker.[39] The Bidens are Roman Catholics and regularly attend Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware.[42]
United States Senator[link]
When Biden took office on January 3, 1973, at age 30 (the minimum age to become a U.S. Senator), he became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history.[44] In 1974, freshman Senator Biden was named one of the 200 Faces for the Future by Time magazine.[45]
Biden was subsequently elected to six additional terms, in the elections of 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008, usually getting about 60 percent of the vote.[46] He did not face strong opposition; Governor Pierre S. du Pont, IV chose not to run against him in 1984.[47] Biden spent 28 years as a junior senator due to the two-year seniority of his Republican colleague William V. Roth, Jr.. After Roth was defeated for re-election by Tom Carper in 2000, Biden became Delaware's senior senator. He then became the longest-serving senator in Delaware history.[48] In May 1999, Biden set the mark for youngest senator to cast 10,000 votes.[49]
In February 1988, after suffering from several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by long-distance ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and given lifesaving surgery to correct an intracranial berry aneurysm that had begun leaking;[50][51] the situation was serious enough that a priest had administered last rites at the hospital.[52] While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, which represented a major complication.[51] Another operation to repair a second aneurysm, which had caused no symptoms but was also at risk from bursting, was performed in May 1988.[51][53] The hospitalization and recovery kept Biden from his duties in the U.S. Senate for seven months.[37] Biden has had no recurrences or effects from the aneurysms since then.[51]
Judiciary Committee[link]
Biden was a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and on which he served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997. In this capacity, he dealt with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties.
While chairman, Biden presided over the two most contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings in history, those for Robert Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991.[12] In the Bork hearings, Biden stated his opposition to Bork soon after the nomination, reversing an approval in an interview of a hypothetical Bork nomination he had made the previous year and angering conservatives who thought he could not conduct the hearings dispassionately.[54] At the close, Biden won praise for conducting the proceedings fairly and with good humor and courage, as his 1988 presidential campaign collapsed in the middle of the hearings.[54][55] Rejecting some of the less intellectually honest arguments that other Bork opponents were making,[12] Biden framed his discussion around the belief that the U.S. Constitution provides rights to liberty and privacy that extend beyond those explicitly enumerated in the text, and that Bork's strong originalism was ideologically incompatible with that view.[55] Bork's nomination was rejected in the committee by a 9–5 vote,[55] and then rejected in the full Senate by a 58–42 margin.
In the Thomas hearings, Biden's questions on constitutional issues were often long and convoluted, sometimes such that Thomas forgot the question being asked.[56] Thomas later wrote that despite earlier private assurances from the senator, Biden's questions had been akin to a beanball.[57] The nomination came out of the committee without a recommendation, with Biden opposed.[12] In part due to his own bad experiences in 1987 with his presidential campaign, Biden was reluctant to let personal matters enter into the hearings.[56] Biden initially shared with committee, but not the public, Anita Hill's sexual harassment charges, on the grounds she was not yet willing to testify.[12] After she did, Biden did not permit other witnesses to testify further on her behalf, such as Angela Wright (who made a similar charge) and experts on harassment.[58] Biden said he was striving to preserve Thomas's right to privacy and the decency of the hearings.[56][58] The nomination was approved by a 52–48 vote in the full Senate, with Biden again opposed.[12] During and afterwards, Biden was strongly criticized by liberal legal groups and women's groups for having mishandled the hearings and having not done enough to support Hill.[58] Biden subsequently sought out women to serve on the Judiciary Committee and emphasized women's issues in the committee's legislative agenda.[12]
Biden was involved in crafting many federal crime laws. In 1984, he was Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act; civil libertarians praised him for modifying some of the Act's provisions, and it was his most important legislative accomplishment at that point in time.[47] He later spearheaded the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law, and the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA), which contains a broad array of measures to combat domestic violence and provides billions of dollars in federal funds to address gender-based crimes. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Morrison that the section of VAWA allowing a federal civil remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence exceeded Congress's authority and therefore was unconstitutional.[59] Congress reauthorized VAWA in 2000 and 2005.[60] Biden has said, "I consider the Violence Against Women Act the single most significant legislation that I’ve crafted during my 35-year tenure in the Senate."[61] In 2004 and 2005, Biden 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.[62][63]
Biden was critical of the actions of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr during the 1990s Whitewater controversy and Lewinsky scandal investigations, and said "it's going to be a cold day in hell" before another Independent Counsel is granted the same powers.[64] Biden voted to acquit on both charges during the impeachment of President Clinton.
As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden wrote the laws that created the U.S. "Drug Czar", who oversees and coordinates national drug control policy. In April 2003, he introduced the controversial Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, also known as the RAVE Act. He continued to work to stop the spread of "date rape drugs" such as flunitrazepam, and drugs such as Ecstasy and Ketamine. In 2004, he worked to pass a bill outlawing steroids like androstenedione, the drug used by many baseball players.[12]
Biden's legislation to promote college aid and loan programs allows families to deduct on their annual income tax returns up to $10,000 per year in higher education expenses. His "Kids 2000" legislation established a public/private partnership to provide computer centers, teachers, Internet access, and technical training to young people, particularly to low-income and at-risk youth.[65]
Foreign Relations Committee[link]
Biden was also a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In 1997, he became the ranking minority member and chaired the committee in January 2001 and from June 2001 through 2003. When Democrats re-took control of the Senate following the 2006 elections, Biden again assumed the top spot on the committee in 2007.[66] Biden was generally a liberal internationalist in foreign policy.[67][68] He collaborated effectively with important Republican Senate figures such as Richard Lugar and Jesse Helms and sometimes went against elements of his own party.[66][67] Biden was also co-chair of the NATO Observer Group in the Senate.[69] A partial list covering this time showed Biden meeting with some 150 leaders from nearly 60 countries and international organizations.[70] Biden held frequent hearings as chair of the committee, as well as holding many subcommittee hearings during the three times he chaired the Subcommittee on European Affairs.[68]
During his first decade in the Senate, Biden focused on arms control issues.[68][71] In response to the refusal of the U.S. Congress to ratify the SALT II Treaty signed in 1979 by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter, Biden took the initiative to meet the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, educated him about American concerns and interests, and secured several changes to address objections of the Foreign Relations Committee.[72] When the Reagan administration wanted to interpret the 1972 SALT I Treaty loosely in order to allow the Strategic Defense Initiative to proceed, Biden argued for strict adherence to the treaty's terms.[68] Biden clashed again with the Reagan administration in 1986 over economic sanctions against South Africa, leading to a heated exchange between the senator and Secretary of State George P. Shultz.[71]
Biden became interested in the Yugoslav Wars after hearing about Serbian abuses during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991.[68] Once the Bosnian War broke out, Biden 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.[66][68] Both the George H. W. Bush administration and Clinton administration were reluctant to implement the policy, fearing Balkan entanglement.[67][68] In April 2003, Biden spent a week in the Balkans and held a tense three-hour meeting with Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.[73] Biden related that he told Milošević, "I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one."[73] Biden wrote an amendment in 1992 to compel the Bush administration to arm the Bosnians, but deferred in 1994 to a somewhat softer stance preferred by the Clinton administration, before signing on the following year to a stronger measure sponsored by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman.[73] The 1995 NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina then led to the Dayton Agreement and a successful NATO peacekeeping effort.[68] Biden has called his role in affecting Balkans policy in the mid-1990s his "proudest moment in public life" that related to foreign policy.[67] In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia and Montenegro,[68] and co-sponsored with his friend John McCain the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on President Clinton to use all necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milosevic over Serbian actions in Kosovo.[67][74] 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 foreign affairs agencies and punish religious persecution overseas.[49]
Biden had voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991,[67] siding with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators; he said the U.S. was bearing almost all the burden in the anti-Iraq coalition.[75] Biden was a strong supporter of the 2001 war in Afghanistan, saying "Whatever it takes, we should do it."[76] Regarding Iraq, Biden stated in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was a threat to national security, and that there was no option but to eliminate that threat.[77] The Bush administration rejected an effort Biden undertook with Senator Richard Lugar to pass a resolution authorizing military action only after the exhaustion of diplomatic efforts. In October 2002, Biden voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, justifying the Iraq War.[67] While he soon became a critic of the war and viewed his vote as a "mistake", he did not push to require a U.S. withdrawal.[67][73] He supported the appropriations to pay for the occupation, but argued repeatedly that the war should be internationalized, that more soldiers were needed, and that the Bush administration should "level with the American people" about the cost and length of the conflict.[66][74]
By late 2006, Biden's stance had shifted, and he opposed the troop surge of 2007,[67][73] saying General David Petraeus was "dead, flat wrong" in believing the surge could work.[76] Biden was instead a leading advocate for dividing Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic states.[78] In November 2006, Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, released a comprehensive strategy to end sectarian violence in Iraq.[79] Rather than continuing the present approach or withdrawing, the plan called for "a third way": federalizing Iraq and giving Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis "breathing room" in their own regions.[80] In September 2007, a non-binding resolution passed the Senate endorsing such a scheme.[79] However, the idea was unfamiliar, had no political constituency, and failed to gain traction.[76] Iraq’s political leadership united in denouncing the resolution as a de facto partitioning of the country, and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a statement distancing itself.[79]
In March 2004, Biden secured the brief release of Libyan democracy activist and political prisoner Fathi Eljahmi, after meeting with leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.[81][82] In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to Israel's Knesset in which he suggested that some Democrats were acting in the same way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the runup to World War II. Biden stated: "This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement." Biden later apologized for using the expletive. Biden further stated, "Since when does this administration think that if you sit down, you have to eliminate the word 'no' from your vocabulary?"[83]
Delaware matters[link]
Biden was a familiar figure to his Delaware constituency, by virtue of his daily train commuting from there,[12] and generally sought to attend to state needs.[46] Biden was a strong supporter of increased Amtrak funding and rail security;[46] he hosted barbecues and an annual Christmas dinner for the Amtrak crews, and they would sometimes hold the last train of the night a few minutes so he could catch it.[28][46] (He earned the nickname "Amtrak Joe" as a result, and in 2011, Amtrak's Wilmington Station was named the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Railroad Station, in honor of the over 7,000 trips he made from there.[84][85]) He was an advocate for Delaware military installations, including Dover Air Force Base and New Castle Air National Guard Base.[86]
In 1975, Biden broke from liberal orthodoxy when he took legislative action to limit desegregation busing.[47] In doing so, he said busing was a "bankrupt idea [that violated] the cardinal rule of common sense," and that his opposition would make it easier for other liberals to follow suit.[47] Three years later, Wilmington's federally-mandated cross-district busing plan generated much turmoil, and in trying to legislate a compromise solution Biden found himself alienating both black and white voters for a while.[87]
Since 1991, Biden has served as an adjunct professor at the Widener University School of Law, Delaware's only law school, where he has taught a seminar on constitutional law.[88][89] The seminar has been one of Widener's most popular, often with a waiting list for enrollment.[89] Biden has typically co-taught the course with another professor, taking on at least half the course minutes and sometimes flying back from overseas to make one of the classes.[90][91]
Biden was a sponsor of bankruptcy legislation during the 2000s, which was sought by MBNA, one of Delaware's largest companies, and other credit card issuers.[12] Biden fought for certain amendments to the bill that would indirectly protect homeowners and forbid anti-abortion felons from using bankruptcy to discharge fines; the overall bill was vetoed by Bill Clinton in 2000 but then finally passed as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act in 2005, with Biden supporting.[12] The downstate Sussex County region is the nation's top chicken-producing area, and Biden held up trade agreements with Russia when that country stopped importing U.S. chickens.[46]
In 2007, Biden requested and gained $67 million worth of projects for his constituents through congressional earmarks.[92]
Biden sits on the board of advisors of the Close Up Foundation, which brings high school students to Washington for interaction with legislators on Capitol Hill.[93]
Characteristics as senator[link]
With a net worth between $59,000 and $366,000, and almost no outside income or investment income, he was consistently ranked as one of the least wealthy members of the Senate.[94][95][96] Biden stated that he was listed as the second poorest member in Congress, a distinction that he was not proud of, but attributed to being elected early in his career.[97] Biden realized early in his senatorial career how vulnerable poorer public officials are to offers of financial contributions in exchange for policy support, and he pushed campaign finance reform measures during his first term.[47]
During his years as a senator, Biden amassed a reputation for loquaciousness,[98][99][100] with his questions and remarks during Senate hearings being especially known for being long-winded.[101][102] He has been a strong speaker and debater and a frequent and effective guest on the Sunday morning talk shows.[102] In public appearances, he is known to deviate from prepared remarks at will.[103] According to political analyst Mark Halperin, he has shown "a persistent tendency to say silly, offensive, and off-putting things";[102] The New York Times writes that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything".[100] Nor is Biden known for modesty; journalist James Traub has written that "Biden’s vanity and his regard for his own gifts seem considerable even by the rarefied standards of the U.S. Senate."[76]
Political writer Howard Fineman has said that, "Biden is not an academic, he’s not a theoretical thinker, he’s a great street pol. He comes from a long line of working people in Scranton—auto salesmen, car dealers, people who know how to make a sale. He has that great Irish gift."[28] Political columnist David S. Broder has viewed Biden as having grown since he came to Washington and since his failed 1988 presidential bid: "He responds to real people—that’s been consistent throughout. And his ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has gotten much much better."[28] Traub concludes that "Biden is the kind of fundamentally happy person who can be as generous toward others as he is to himself."[76]
Final year[link]
After ending his second presidential bid in January 2008, Biden focused instead on running for a seventh Senate term against Republican Christine O'Donnell. In late August 2008, he was picked by Obama to be his running mate. Biden nevertheless continued to run for Senate re-election as well as Vice President,[104] as permitted by Delaware state law.[46] On November 4, 2008, Biden was re-elected as senator, in addition to winning the vice presidency.[105]
Having won both races, Biden made a point of holding off his resignation from the Senate so that he could be sworn in for his seventh term on January 6, 2009.[106] He became the youngest senator ever to be sworn in for a seventh full term, and said, "In all my life, the greatest honor bestowed upon me has been serving the people of Delaware as their United States senator."[106] Biden cast his last Senate vote on January 15, supporting the release of the second $350 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.[107] Biden resigned from the Senate later that day; in emotional farewell remarks on the Senate floor, where he had spent most of his adult life, Biden said, "Every good thing I have seen happen here, every bold step taken in the 36-plus years I have been here, came not from the application of pressure by interest groups, but through the maturation of personal relationships."[108]
Delaware's Democratic governor, Ruth Ann Minner, announced on November 24, 2008, that she would appoint Biden's longtime senior adviser Ted Kaufman to succeed Biden in the Senate.[109] Kaufman said he would only serve two years, until Delaware's special senate election in 2010.[109] Biden's son Beau ruled himself out of the 2008 selection process due to his impending tour in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard.[110] He was a possible candidate for the 2010 special election, but in early 2010 said he would not run for the seat.[111]
Political positions[link]
Main article: Political positions of Joe Biden
A method that political scientists use for gauging ideology is to compare the annual ratings by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with the ratings by the American Conservative Union (ACU).[112] Biden has a lifetime liberal 72 percent score from the ADA through 2004, while the ACU awarded Biden a lifetime conservative rating of 13 percent through 2008.[113] Using another metric, Biden has a lifetime average liberal score of 77.5 percent, according to a National Journal analysis that places him ideologically among the center of Senate Democrats.[114] The Almanac of American Politics rates congressional votes as liberal or conservative on the political spectrum, in three policy areas: economic, social, and foreign. For 2005–2006, Biden's average ratings were as follows: the economic rating was 80 percent liberal and 13 percent conservative, the social rating was 78 percent liberal and 18 percent conservative, and the foreign rating was 71 percent liberal and 25 percent conservative.[115] This has not changed much over time; his liberal ratings in the mid-1980s were also in the 70–80 percent range.[47]
Various advocacy groups have given Biden scores or grades as to how well his votes align with the positions of each group. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gives him an 86 percent lifetime score, with a 91 percent score for the 110th Congress.[116] Biden received a 91 percent voting record from the National Education Association (NEA) showing a pro-teacher union voting record.[117] Biden opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and supports governmental funding to find new energy sources.[118] Biden believes action must be taken on global warming. He co-sponsored the Sense of the Senate resolution calling on the United States to be a part of the United Nations climate negotiations and the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, the most stringent climate bill in the United States Senate.[119] Biden cites high health care and energy costs as two major threats to the prosperity of American businesses, and believes that addressing these issues will improve American economic competitiveness. Biden was given a 100 percent approval rating from AFL-CIO indicating a heavily pro-union voting record. Biden is opposed to the privatization of Social Security and was given an 89 percent approval rating from the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), an organization of retired union members.
Presidential campaigns[link]
Biden has twice run for the Democratic nomination for President, first in 1988, and again in 2008. He first considered running in 1984, after he gained notice for giving speeches to party audiences that simultaneously scolded and encouraged Democrats.[120] He chose not to run in 1992 in part because he had voted against the resolution authorizing the Gulf War.[46] He considered joining the Democratic field of candidates for the 2004 presidential race but in August 2003 decided otherwise, saying he did not have enough time and any attempt would be too much of a long shot.[121] In May 2004, Biden urged Republican Senator John McCain to run as vice president with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, saying the cross-party ticket would help heal the "vicious rift" in U.S. politics.[122] During this time, Biden was also widely discussed as a possible Secretary of State in a Democratic administration.[123]
1988[link]
Main article: Joe Biden presidential campaign, 1988
File:BidenCampaignButton1988.jpeg
Biden's 1988 campaign logo
In 1987, Biden ran as a Democratic presidential candidate, formally declaring his candidacy at the Wilmington train station on June 9, 1987.[124] When the campaign began, Biden was considered a potentially strong candidate because of his moderate image, his speaking ability on the stump, his appeal to Baby Boomers, his high profile position as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the upcoming Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination hearings, and his fundraising appeal.[125][126] He raised $1.7 million in the first quarter of 1987, more than any other candidate.[125][126] Biden received considerable attention in the summer of 1986 when he excoriated Secretary of State George P. Shultz at a Senate hearing because of the Reagan administration's support of South Africa, which continued to practice the apartheid system.[127]
By August 1987, Biden's campaign, whose messaging was confused due to staff rivalries,[128] had begun to lag behind those of Michael Dukakis and Dick Gephardt,[125] although he had still raised more funds than all candidates but Dukakis, and was seeing an upturn in Iowa polls.[126][129] In September 1987, the campaign ran into trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech that had been made by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party.[130] Kinnock’s speech included the lines:
"Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?"
While Biden’s speech included the lines:
"I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?"
Though Biden had cited Kinnock as the source for the formulation many times before, he made no reference to the original source at the August 23 Iowa State Fair debate in question or in another appearance.[131][132] While political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden's use came under more scrutiny because he somewhat distorted his own family's background to match Kinnock's.[12][132]
A few days later, Biden's plagiarism incident in law school came to public light.[20] It was also revealed that when earlier questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school, Biden had falsely stated that he had graduated in the "top half" of his class, that he had attended law school on a full scholarship, and that he had received three degrees in college. He had in fact earned a single B.A. with a double major in history and political science, had received a half scholarship to law school based on financial need with some additional assistance based in part upon academics, and had graduated 76th of 85 in his law school class.[133]
The Kinnock and school revelations were magnified by the limited amount of other news about the nomination race at the time,[134] when most of the public were not yet paying attention to any of the campaigns; Biden thus fell into what The Washington Post writer Paul Taylor described as that year's trend, a "trial by media ordeal".[135] Biden lacked a strong demographic or political group of support to help him survive the crisis.[129][136] He withdrew from the nomination race on September 23, 1987, saying his candidacy had been overrun by "the exaggerated shadow" of his past mistakes.[137] After Biden withdrew from the race, it was revealed that the Dukakis campaign had secretly made a video highlighting the Biden–Kinnock comparison and distributed it to news outlets.[138] Also later in 1987, the Delaware Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility cleared Biden of the law school plagiarism charges regarding his standing as a lawyer, saying Biden had "not violated any rules".[139]
2008[link]
Main article: Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2008
File:Joe Biden Presidential Campaign Logo 08.svg
Biden's 2008 campaign logo
Biden declared his candidacy for president on January 31, 2007, although he had discussed running for months prior,[140] and first made a formal announcement to Tim Russert on Meet the Press on January 7, stating he would "be the best Biden I can be."[141] In January 2006, Delaware newspaper columnist Harry F. Themal wrote that Biden "occupies the sensible center of the Democratic Party."[142] Themal concludes that this is the position Biden desires, and that in a campaign "he plans to stress the dangers to the security of the average American, not just from the terrorist threat, but from the lack of health assistance, crime, and energy dependence on unstable parts of the world."[142]
During his campaign, Biden focused on the war in Iraq and his support for the implementation of the Biden-Gelb plan to achieve political success. He touted his record in the Senate as the head of major congressional committees and his experience on foreign policy. Despite speculation to the contrary,[143] Biden rejected the notion of accepting the position of Secretary of State, focusing only on the presidency. At a 2007 campaign event, Biden said, "I know a lot of my opponents out there say I'd be a great Secretary of State. Seriously, every one of them. Do you watch any of the debates? 'Joe's right, Joe's right, Joe's right.'"[144] Other candidates' comments that "Joe is right" in the Democratic debates were converted into a Biden campaign theme and ad.[145] In mid-2007, Biden stressed his foreign policy expertise compared to Obama's, saying of the latter, "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."[146] Biden also said that Obama was copying some of his foreign policy ideas.[76] Biden was noted for his one-liners on the campaign trail, saying of Republican then-frontrunner Rudy Giuliani at the October 30, 2007, debate in Philadelphia, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11."[147] Overall, Biden's debate performances were an effective mixture of humor and sharp and surprisingly disciplined comments.[148]
Biden made remarks during the campaign that attracted controversy. On the day of his January 2007 announcement, he spoke of fellow Democratic candidate and Senator Barack Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man."[149] This comment undermined his campaign as soon as it began and significantly damaged his fund-raising capabilities;[148] it later took second place on Time magazine's list of Top 10 Campaign Gaffes for 2007.[150] Biden had earlier been criticized in July 2006 for a remark he made about his support among Indian Americans: "I've had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."[151] Biden later said the remark was not intended to be derogatory.[151][152]
Overall, Biden had difficulty raising funds, struggled to draw people to his rallies, and failed to gain traction against the high-profile candidacies of Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton;[153] he never rose above single digits in the national polls of the Democratic candidates. In the initial contest on January 3, 2008, Biden placed fifth in the Iowa caucuses, garnering slightly less than one percent of the state delegates.[154] Biden withdrew from the race that evening, saying "There is nothing sad about tonight.... I feel no regret."[155]
Despite the lack of success, Biden's stature in the political world rose as the result of his campaign.[148] In particular, it changed the relationship between Biden and Obama. Although the two had served together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they had not been close, with Biden having resented Obama's quick rise to political stardom[76][156] and Obama having viewed Biden as garrulous and patronizing.[157] Now, having gotten to know each other during 2007, Obama appreciated Biden's campaigning style and appeal to working class voters, and Biden was convinced that Obama was "the real deal".[156][157]
2008 vice-presidential candidacy[link]
Main articles: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 and Democratic Party (United States) vice presidential candidates, 2008
Since shortly following Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Obama had been privately telling Biden that he was interested in finding an important place for him in a possible Obama administration.[158] Biden declined Obama's first request to vet him for the vice presidential slot, fearing the vice presidency would represent a loss in status and voice from his senate position, but subsequently changed his mind.[76][159] In a June 22, 2008, interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Biden confirmed that, although he was not actively seeking a spot on the ticket, he would accept the vice presidential nomination if offered.[160] In early August, Obama and Biden met in secret to discuss a possible vice-presidential relationship,[158] and the two hit it off well personally.[156] On August 22, 2008, Barack Obama announced that Biden would be his running mate.[161][162] The New York Times reported that the strategy behind the choice reflected a desire to fill out the ticket with someone who has foreign policy and national security experience—and not to help the ticket win a swing state or to emphasize Obama's "change" message.[163] Other observers pointed out Biden's appeal to middle class and blue-collar voters, as well as his willingness to aggressively challenge Republican nominee John McCain in a way that Obama seemed uncomfortable doing at times.[164][165] In accepting Obama's offer, Biden ruled out to him the possibility of running for president again in 2016[158] (although comments by Biden in subsequent years seemed to back off that stance, with Biden not wanting to diminish his political power by appearing uninterested in advancement).[166][167][168]
After his selection as a vice presidential candidate, Biden was criticized by his own Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Bishop Michael Saltarelli over his stance on abortion, which goes against the church's pro-life beliefs and teachings.[169] The diocese confirmed that even if elected vice president, Biden would not be allowed to speak at Catholic schools.[170] Biden was soon barred from receiving Holy Communion by the bishop of his original hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, because of his support for abortion rights;[171] however, Biden did continue to receive Communion at his local Delaware parish.[170] Scranton became a flash point in the competition for swing state Catholic voters between the Democratic campaign and liberal Catholic groups, who stressed that other social issues should be considered as much or more than abortion, and many bishops and conservative Catholics, who maintained abortion was paramount.[172] Biden said he believed that life began at conception but that he would not impose his personal religious views on others.[173] Bishop Saltarelli had previously stated regarding stances similar to Biden's: "No one today would accept this statement from any public servant: ‘I am personally opposed to human slavery and racism but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena.’ Likewise, none of us should accept this statement from any public servant: ‘I am personally opposed to abortion but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena.'"[170]
Biden's vice presidential campaigning gained little media visibility, as far greater press attention was focused on the Republican running mate, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.[100][174] During one week in September 2008, for instance, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Biden was only included in five percent of the news coverage of the race, far less than for the other three candidates on the tickets.[175] Biden nevertheless focused on campaigning in economically challenged areas of swing states and trying to win over blue-collar Democrats, especially those who had supported Hillary Rodham Clinton.[76][100] Biden attacked McCain heavily, despite a long-standing personal friendship; he would say, "That guy I used to know, he’s gone. It literally saddens me."[100] As the financial crisis of 2007–2010 reached a peak with the liquidity crisis of September 2008 and the proposed bailout of United States financial system became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted in favor of the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which passed the Senate 74–25.[176]
On October 2, 2008, Biden participated in the campaign's one vice presidential debate with Palin. Polling from CNN, Fox and CBS found that while Palin exceeded many voters' expectations, Biden had won the debate overall.[177][178][179] On October 5, Biden suspended campaign events for a few days after the death of his mother-in-law.[180] During the final days of the campaign, Biden focused on less-populated, older, less well-off areas of battleground states, especially in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where polling indicated he was popular and where Obama had not campaigned or performed well in the Democratic primaries.[181][182][183] He also campaigned in some normally Republican states, as well as in areas with large Catholic populations.[183]
Under instructions from the Obama campaign, Biden kept his speeches succinct and tried to avoid off-hand remarks, such as one about Obama being tested by a foreign power soon after taking office, which had attracted negative attention.[181][182] Privately, Obama was frustrated by Biden's remarks, saying "How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?"[184] Obama campaign staffers referred to Biden blunders as "Joe bombs" and kept Biden uninformed about strategy discussions, which in turn irked Biden.[168] Relations between the two campaigns became strained for a month, until Biden apologized on a call to Obama and the two built a stronger partnership.[184] Publicly, Obama strategist David Axelrod said that any unexpected comments had been outweighed by Biden's high popularity ratings.[185] Nationally, Biden had a 60 percent favorability rating in a Pew Research Center poll, compared to Palin's 44 percent.[181]
On November 4, 2008, Obama was elected President and Biden Vice President of the United States.[186] The Obama-Biden ticket won 365 Electoral College votes to McCain-Palin's 173,[187] and had a 53–46 percent edge in the nationwide popular vote.[188]
Vice Presidency[link]
Biden became the 47th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2009, when he was inaugurated alongside President Barack Obama. He succeeded Dick Cheney. Biden is the first United States Vice President from Delaware[189] and the first Roman Catholic to attain that office.[190] Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens administered the oath of office to Biden.[191]
As Biden headed to Delaware's Return Day tradition following the November 2008 election, and the transition process to an Obama administration began, Biden said he was in daily meetings with Obama and that McCain was still his friend.[192] The U.S. Secret Service codename given to Biden is "Celtic", referencing his Irish roots.[193]
Biden chose veteran Democratic lawyer and aide Ron Klain to be his vice-presidential chief of staff,[194] and Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney to be his director of communications.[195] Biden intended to eliminate some of the explicit roles assumed by the vice presidency of Cheney,[196] who had established himself as an autonomous power center.[76] Otherwise, Biden said he would not model his vice presidency on any of the ones before him, but instead would seek to provide advice and counsel on every critical decision Obama would make.[197] Biden said he had been closely involved in all the cabinet appointments that were made during the transition.[197] Biden was also named to head the new White House Task Force on Working Families, an initiative aimed at improving the economic well being of the middle class.[198] As his last act as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Biden went on a trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan during the second week of January 2009, meeting with the leadership of those countries.[199]
In the early months of the Obama administration, Biden assumed the role of an important behind-the-scenes counselor.[200] One role was to adjudicate disputes between Obama's "team of rivals".[76] The president compared Biden's efforts to a basketball player "who does a bunch of things that don’t show up in the stat sheet."[200] Biden played a key role in gaining Senate support for several major pieces of Obama legislation, and was a main factor in convincing Senator Arlen Specter to switch from the Republican to Democratic party.[159] Biden lost an internal debate to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton regarding his opposition to sending 21,000 new troops to the war in Afghanistan.[201][202] His skeptical voice was still considered valuable within the administration,[159] however, and later in 2009 Biden's views achieved more prominence within the White House as Obama reconsidered his Afghanistan strategy.[203] Biden made visits to Iraq about once every two months,[76] including trips to Baghdad in August and September 2009 to listen to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and reiterate U.S. stances on Iraq's future;[204] by this time he had become the administration's point man in delivering messages to Iraqi leadership about expected progress in the country.[159] Biden'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.[205] Biden was in charge of the oversight role for infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package intended to help counteract the ongoing recession, and stressed that only worthy projects should get funding.[206] During this period, Biden was satisfied that no major instances of waste or corruption had occurred[159] (and when he gave up the role in February 2011, he said that the number of fraud incidents with stimulus monies had been less than one percent).[207]
It took some time for the cautious Obama and the blunt, rambling Biden to work out ways of dealing with each other.[168] In late April 2009, Biden's off-message response to a question during the beginning of the swine flu outbreak, that he would advise family members against travelling on airplanes or subways, led to a swift retraction from the White House.[208] The remark revived Biden's reputation for gaffes,[209] and led to a spate of late-night television jokes themed on him being a loose-talking buffoon.[203][210][211] In the face of persistently rising unemployment through July 2009, Biden acknowledged that the administration had "misread how bad the economy was" but maintained confidence that the stimulus package would create many more jobs once the pace of expenditures picked up.[212] The same month, Secretary of State Clinton quickly disavowed Biden's remarks disparaging Russia as a power, but despite any missteps, Biden still retained Obama's confidence and was increasingly influential within the administration.[213] On March 23, 2010, a microphone picked up Biden telling the president that his signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was "a big fucking deal" during live national news telecasts. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs replied via Twitter "And yes Mr. Vice President, you're right..."[214] Senior Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett said that Biden's loose talk "[is] part of what makes the vice president so endearing ... We wouldn't change him one bit."[213] Former Senate colleague Lindsey Graham said, "If there were no gaffes, there'd be no Joe. He's someone you can't help but like."[203] Despite their different personalities, Obama and Biden formed something of a friendship, partly based around an Obama daughter and a Biden granddaughter attending Sidwell Friends School together.[168]
Biden's most important role within the administration has been to question assumptions and playing a contrarian role.[76][203] Obama said that, "The best thing about Joe is that when we get everybody together, he really forces people to think and defend their positions, to look at things from every angle, and that is very valuable for me."[159] Another senior Obama advisor said Biden "is always prepared to be the skunk at the family picnic to make sure we are as intellectually honest as possible."[159] On June 11, 2010, Biden represented the United States at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, attended the England v. U.S. game which was tied 1–1, and visited Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa.[216] Throughout, Joe and Jill Biden maintained a relaxed atmosphere at their official residence in Washington, often entertaining some of their grandchildren, and regularly returned to their home in Delaware.[217]
Biden campaigned heavily for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections, maintaining an attitude of optimism in the face of general predictions of large-scale losses for the party.[218] In October 2010, Biden stated that Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election.[218] Following large-scale Republican gains in the elections and the departure of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Biden's past relationships with Republicans in Congress became more important.[219][220] He led the successful administration effort to gain Senate approval for the New START treaty.[219][220] In December 2010, Biden's advocacy within the White House for a middle ground, followed by his direct negotiations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, were instrumental in producing the administration's compromise tax package that revolved around a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts.[220][221] Biden then took the lead in trying to sell the agreement to a reluctant Democratic caucus in Congress,[220][222] which was passed as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.
In March 2011, Obama detailed Biden to lead negotiations between both houses of Congress and the White House in resolving federal spending levels for the rest of the year and avoid a government shutdown.[224] By May 2011, a "Biden panel" with six congressional members was trying to reach a bipartisan deal on raising the U.S. debt ceiling as part of an overall deficit reduction plan.[225][226] The U.S. debt ceiling crisis developed over the next couple of months, but it was again Biden's relationship with McConnell that proved to be a key factor in breaking a deadlock and finally bringing about a bipartisan deal to resolve it, in the form of the Budget Control Act of 2011, signed on August 2, 2011, the same day that an unprecedented U.S. default had loomed.[223][227][228] Biden had spent the most time bargaining with Congress on the debt question of anyone in the administration,[227] and one Republican staffer said, "Biden’s the only guy with real negotiating authority, and [McConnell] knows that his word is good. He was a key to the deal."[223]
Biden's May 2012 statement that he was "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex marriage gained considerable public attention in comparison to President Obama's position, which had been described as "evolving".[229] Biden made his statement without administration consent, and Obama aides were irked.[230][168] Gay rights advocates seized upon the Biden stance,[230] and within days, Obama announced that he too supported same-sex marriage, an action in part forced by Biden's unexpected remarks.[231] Biden privately apologized to Obama for having spoken out, while Obama acknowledged it had been done from the heart.[230] The incident showed that Biden still struggled at times with message discipline.[168]
Awards and honors[link]
Biden has received honorary degrees from the University of Scranton (1976),[232] Saint Joseph's University (1981),[233] Widener University School of Law (2000),[89] Emerson College (2003),[234] his alma mater the University of Delaware (2004),[235] Suffolk University Law School (2005),[236] and his other alma mater Syracuse University (2009).[237]
Biden received the Chancellor Medal from his alma mater, Syracuse University, in 1980.[238] In 2005, he received the George Arents Pioneer Medal—Syracuse's highest alumni award[238]—"for excellence in public affairs."[239]
In 2008, Biden received the Best of Congress Award, for "improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies," from Working Mother magazine.[240] Also in 2008, Biden shared with fellow Senator Richard Lugar the Hilal-i-Pakistan award from the Government of Pakistan, "in recognition of their consistent support for Pakistan."[241] In 2009, Biden received The Golden Medal of Freedom award from Kosovo, that region's highest award, for his vocal support for their independence in the late 1990s.[242]
Biden is an inductee of the Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association Hall of Fame.[243] He was named to the Little League Hall of Excellence in 2009.[244]
Almanac[link]
U.S. Senators are popularly elected and take office January 3 for a six year term (except when appointed to fill existing vacancies).
| Public offices | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Type | Location | Began office | Ended office | notes | |
| County Council | Legislature | Wilmington | January 4, 1971 | January 3, 1973 | New Castle County | |
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 1973 | January 3, 1979 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 1979 | January 3, 1985 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 1985 | January 3, 1991 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 1991 | January 3, 1997 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 1997 | January 3, 2003 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 2003 | January 3, 2009 | ||
| U.S. Senator | Legislature | Washington, D.C. | January 3, 2009 | January 15, 2009 | resigned to be sworn in as Vice President | |
| Vice President | Executive | Washington, D.C. | January 20, 2009 | – | — | |
| United States Congressional service | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dates | Congress | Majority | President | Committees | Class/District | |
| 1973–1975 | 93rd | Democratic | Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford |
Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1975–1977 | 94th | Democratic | Gerald R. Ford | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1977–1979 | 95th | Democratic | Jimmy Carter | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1979–1981 | 96th | Democratic | Jimmy Carter | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1981–1983 | 97th | Republican | Ronald W. Reagan | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1983–1985 | 98th | Republican | Ronald W. Reagan | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1985–1987 | 99th | Republican | Ronald W. Reagan | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1987–1989 | 100th | Democratic | Ronald W. Reagan | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1989–1991 | 101st | Democratic | George H. W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1991–1993 | 102nd | Democratic | George H. W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1993–1995 | 103rd | Democratic | William J. Clinton | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1995–1997 | 104th | Republican | William J. Clinton | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1997–1999 | 105th | Republican | William J. Clinton | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 1999–2001 | 106th | Republican | William J. Clinton | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 2001–2003 | 107th | Republican Democratic |
George W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 2003–2005 | 108th | Republican | George W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 2005–2007 | 109th | Republican | George W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 2007–2009 | 110th | Democratic | George W. Bush | Judiciary, Foreign Relations | class 2 | |
| 2009a | 111th | Democratic | George W. Bushb | class 2 | ||
- ^a Even though at the time he was the Vice President-elect, Biden was sworn in for his seventh term in office as the senior senator from Delaware on January 6, 2009. Fourteen days later he was sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
- ^b Although the 111th Congress' President is Barack Obama, Biden did not serve as a Senator under Obama due to him serving as Vice President instead.
Main article: Electoral history of Joe Biden
| Election results | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Office | Election | Votes for Biden | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1970 | County Councilman | General | 10,573 | 55% | Lawrence T. Messick | Republican | 8,192 | 43% | |||
| 1972 | U.S. Senator | General | 116,006 | 50% | J. Caleb Boggs | Republican | 112,844 | 49% | |||
| 1978 | U.S. Senator | General | 93,930 | 58% | James H. Baxter, Jr. | Republican | 66,479 | 41% | |||
| 1984 | U.S. Senator | General | 147,831 | 60% | John M. Burris | Republican | 98,101 | 40% | |||
| 1990 | U.S. Senator | General | 112,918 | 63% | M. Jane Brady | Republican | 64,554 | 36% | |||
| 1996 | U.S. Senator | General | 165,465 | 60% | Raymond J. Clatworthy | Republican | 105,088 | 38% | |||
| 2002 | U.S. Senator | General | 135,253 | 58% | Raymond J. Clatworthy | Republican | 94,793 | 41% | |||
| 2008 | U.S. Senator | General | 257,484 | 65% | Christine O'Donnell | Republican | 140,584 | 35% | |||
| 2008 | Vice President | General | 69,456,897 | 53% | Sarah Palin | Republican | 59,934,786 | 46% | |||
Writings by Biden[link]
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (2007). Promises to Keep. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6536-3. Also paperback edition, Random House 2008, ISBN 978-0-8129-7621-2.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (July 24, 2001) (PDF). Administration’s Missile Defense Program and the ABM Treaty: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-1959-3. http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sfr240701.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (February 12, 2002) (PDF). Examining The Theft Of American Intellectual Property At Home And Abroad: Hearing before the Committee On Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-4177-7. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_hearings&docid=f:78178.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (August 1, 2002) (PDF). Hearings to Examine Threats, Responses, and Regional Considerations Surrounding Iraq: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-2823-1. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_hearings&docid=f:81697.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (September 2003). Strategies for Homeland Defense: A Compilation by the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-7567-2623-9.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (July 8, 2001) (PDF). Putin Administration's Policies toward Non-Russian Regions of the Russian Federation: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-2624-7. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_hearings&docid=f:75011.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (September 5, 2001) (PDF). Threat of Bioterrorism and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-2625-5. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_hearings&docid=f:75040.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (February 27, 2002) (PDF). How Do We Promote Democratization, Poverty Alleviation, and Human Rights to Build a More Secure Future: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-7567-2478-3. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_hearings&docid=f:77983.pdf.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (January 2003). Political Future of Afghanistan: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-7567-3039-2.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (January 2003). International Campaign Against Terrorism: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-7567-3041-4.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R. (2002). Halting the Spread of HIV/AIDS: Future Efforts in the U.S. Bilateral & Multilateral Response: Hearings before the Comm. on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-7567-3454-1.
- Biden Jr., Joseph R.; Jesse Helms (April 2000). Hague Convention On International Child Abduction: Applicable Law And Institutional Framework Within Certain Convention Countries Report To The Senate. Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-7567-2250-0.
- Nicholson, William C. (ed.); with a foreword by Joseph Biden (2005). Homeland Security Law and Policy. C. C Thomas. ISBN 0-398-07583-2.
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| Joe Donnelly | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 2nd district |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Chris Chocola |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Simon Donnelly (1955-09-29) September 29, 1955 (age 56) Flushing, Queens, New York |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jill Donnelly |
| Residence | Granger, Indiana |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Law School |
| Occupation | Attorney Businessman |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly, Sr.[1] (born September 29, 1955[2]) is the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Donnelly announced Monday May 9, 2011, that he would run for the United States Senate seat that is held by Republican Richard Lugar.
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Early life, education, and law career[link]
Joe Donnelly was born and raised in Massapequa, New York.[3] He graduated from Notre Dame in 1977 and earned his law degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1981. He practiced law until 1996, when he opened Marking Solutions, a printing and rubber stamp company.[4]
Early political career[link]
Donnelly held two public positions before deciding to run for US Congress. From 1988 to 1989 he served on the Indiana State Election Board, which was charged with ensuring accurate election results. He served on a local school board from 1997 to 2001, serving as president of the board from 2000 to 2001.[4]
He ran a campaign for Indiana Attorney General in 1988, but lost at the Democratic state convention. He also ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Indiana State Senate in 1990.[3]
U.S. House of Representatives[link]
Elections[link]
- 2004
Donnelly ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination in the second district, where he faced off against incumbent Chris Chocola.[5] Chocola was helped by several fundraising visits from President George W. Bush, and was able to outspend Donnelly by a two to one margin, $1.4 million to $700,000. Donnelly lost the election, 54%–45%.[6] Due to his relatively late entrance into the contest, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) did not offer much support to Donnelly's 2004 campaign. This would change in 2006, when the race was identified by the DCCC as a "Red-to-Blue" contest and extra funds were sent from out of the district in an effort to win back control of the House of Representatives.
| General election | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Chris Chocola (incumbent) | 140,496 | 54.2% | ||
| Democratic | Joe Donnelly | 115,513 | 44.5% | ||
| Libertarian | Douglas Barnes | 3,346 | 1.3% | ||
| Turnout | 259,355 | 62% | |||
| Republican hold | Swing | ||||
- 2006
On May 2, 2006, Donnelly defeated Steve Francis for the Democratic nomination, setting up a rematch against Chris Chocola.[7]
Because Chocola was a strong supporter of George W. Bush, the race was expected to be more competitive than in 2004 in light of Bush's waning popularity. The website Moveon.org identified Donnelly as a top contender to defeat a Republican incumbent in the house, and began running its "Red-Handed" ads against Chocola early in the campaign. Chocola still maintained a significant money advantage over Donnelly, but in 2006, Donnelly had enough to maintain a competitive advertising presence throughout the campaign.
The campaign was heated, with the DCCC sponsoring ads attacking Chocola as being beholden to moneyed interests in the insurance, pharmaceutical, and energy industries. Chocola returned fire by attacking Donnelly over a late tax filing and by attempting to link him to liberal House leader Nancy Pelosi.[8]
On November 7, 2006, Donnelly defeated Chocola by 15,145 votes, or 8% of a substantially larger total of votes relative to 2004.[9] The key difference between the 2006 and 2004 elections for Donnelly lay in the results within St. Joseph County, the location of South Bend and by far the largest county in the district. Traditionally reliably Democratic, voters in the county chose Donnelly over Chocola by only a few hundred votes in the 2004 election. In 2006, however, Donnelly amassed 58% of the county's votes, generating a 14,000-vote margin.
Donnelly was named to the House Financial Services Committee for the 110th Congress.[10]
| General election | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Joe Donnelly | 103,561 | 54.0% | ||
| Republican | Chris Chocola (incumbent) | 88,300 | 46.0% | ||
| Turnout | 191,861 | 44% | |||
| Democratic gain from Republican | Swing | ||||
- 2008
Donnelly ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination. In the general election, he received 67.1% of the vote, winning against Republican nominee Luke Puckett and Libertarian nominee Mark Vogel.
| General election | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Joe Donnelly (incumbent) | 187,416 | 67.1% | ||
| Republican | Luke Puckett | 84,455 | 30.2% | ||
| Libertarian | Mark Vogel | 7,475 | 2.7% | ||
| Turnout | 279,346 | 62% | |||
| Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
- 2010
Donnelly ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination. In the general election, he was challenged by Republican nominee State Representative Jackie Walorski. Despite huge GOP gains Donnelly was re-elected with 48% of the vote to Walorski's 47%.
| General election | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Joe Donnelly (incumbent) | 91,341 | 48.2% | ||
| Republican | Jackie Walorski | 88,803 | 46.8% | ||
| Libertarian | Mark Vogel | 9,447 | 5.0% | ||
| Turnout | 189,591 | 41% | |||
| Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
Tenure[link]
- Taxes and spending
Donnelly is a member of Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate Democrats in Congress. In March 2007, he was recognized as "Blue Dog of the Week" for his work on helping small businesses.[11] He has also broken with the Democratic leadership on several budgetary issues, including the 2008 fiscal budget proposal.[12] In June 2007, he was ranked as one of the ten most independent Democrats by a nonpartisan Congressional Quarterly report.[13]
Donnelly has supported attempts to patch the Alternative Minimum Tax. Additionally, he has co-sponsored HR 976, The Small Business Tax Relief, Act[14][15][16]
- Veterans
File:JoeDonnellywithmilitary.jpg
Congressman Donnelly with members of the Armed Services
In July 2007, Donnelly joined 221 other House members in voting for HR 2956, the Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act. This legislation contained a deadline for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.[17]
Serving on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, supported legislation that was the largest increase in funding for veterans in history (Fiscal Year 2008 Military Construction and Veterans’ Affairs Appropriations).[18] Since taking office, he has worked to improve the conditions at Walter Reed Hospital[19] by supporting H.R.1538, The Wounded Warrior Assistance Act.[20] He has worked across the aisle with Republican Congressman Fred Upton to introduce H.R. 1490, The Fairness in Veterans Disability Benefits Act, which reduces waiting time for veterans deserving disability benefits.[21] Donnelly has introduced legislation to create a rural advisory board for veterans[22] and fought to improve private-care options for veterans struck with traumatic brain injury.[23] He has also worked to open an outpatient clinic in Elkhart, IN and an inpatient hospital in South Bend, IN.[24][25]
- Health care
Donnelly strongly supports expanding health care so it covers a greater number of people. Because many are losing their insurance as a result of losing their jobs, or because their small business cannot afford to provide workers with health care, Donnelly suggests revising the health care plan so that all Americans are covered, as opposed to the 46 million that are currently uninsured.[26] On March 21, 2010, Joe Donnelly voted in favor of approving the Senate version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[27]
- Immigration
To fix what Donnelly calls the “country’s immigration crisis” he wants to start by securing the borders and have more agents patrolling the perimeter. He suggests using E-Verify, a program that allows employers to verify if their workers are legal by checking with databases from the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.[28] The interest groups English First, Federation for American Immigration Reform, and Americans for a Better Immigration have all been supporters of Donnelly’s work, while the National Latino Congreso has adamantly criticized his efforts.[29]
- Gun ownership
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has consistently supported Donnelly on his views on gun control. He helped promote a project that would get rid of gun registration and the trigger lock law in Washington D.C.[30] The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has disapproved of Donnelly’s views and actions since 1998, based on his gun control voting records.[29] He values family traditions and human life; therefore, he is working on making inappropriate content on the web, television, and radio unavailable to children.
- Abortion
Donnelly is morally opposed to abortion, and is trying to make adoption more accessible to families.[31] In 2011, he co-sponsored HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.[32] The bill contained an exception for "forcible rape," which opponents criticized as potentially excluding drug-facilitated rape, date rape, and other forms of rape.[33] The bill also allowed an exception for minors who are victims of incest.[32]
Committee assignments[link]
- Committee on Financial Services
- Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Ranking Member)
2012 U.S Senate election[link]
Main article: United States Senate election in Indiana, 2012
Donnelly has announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Richard Mourdock, who beat incumbent Republican U.S Senator Richard Lugar during the primary election, in the 2012 U.S Senate election.[34]
Personal life[link]
Donnelly and his wife, Jill, have two children. They reside in Granger, Indiana.[35]
References[link]
- ^ U.S. Senate
- ^ "News From The Associated Press". Hosted.ap.org. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/state_districts/IN.html?SITE=OKTULELN&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ a b "News From The Associated Press". Hosted.ap.org. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pre-election/bios/50000.html?SITE=OKTULELN&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ a b "Joe Donnelly for Congress | About Joe | About Joe". Donnellyforuscongress.com. http://www.donnellyforuscongress.com/index.php?about. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ "Secretary of State : Elections Division: Election Foundation Wide". In.gov. http://www.in.gov/serv/sos_primary04?page=office&countyID=-1&partyID=-1&officeID=5&districtID=2&districtshortviewID=2&candidate=. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
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- ^ "Secretary of State : Elections Division: Election Foundation Wide". In.gov. http://www.in.gov/serv/sos_primary06?page=office&countyID=-1&partyID=-1&officeID=5&districtID=2&districtshortviewID=2&candidate=. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "South Bend Tribune: Local news, Sports, Entertainment, Business, Weather & more for South Bend and Michiana". southbendtribune.com. December 26, 1991. http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060804/News01/608040340/-1/NEWS01/CAT=News01. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ "Elections 2006". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/IN/H/02/index.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ Democratic Party in the House of Representatives[dead link]
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Donnelly Named “Blue Dog of the Week”
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly Opposes Democratic Budget
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Donnelly Among Top Ten Most Independent Democrats In Congress
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly Visits Mishawaka Farm To Highlight The Recent House Passage Of The Small Business Tax Relief Act
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Donnelly Visits Entrepreneur Center To Discuss Small Business Tax Cuts
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Donnelly Hails Minimum Wage Increase And Small Business Tax Cuts
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly’s Statement In Support Of Requiring Iraqi Accountability And Continued Funding For Our Troops
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Donnelly Joins House In Passing Historic Funding Increase For Veterans Health Care
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly Discusses Conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Announces His Veterans Advisory Board
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly Votes In Favor Of Wounded Warrior Assistance Act
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressmen Donnelly And Upton Introduce Legislation To Reduce Veteran Wait Time In Receiving Disability Benefits
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Joe Donnelly Introduces Legislation To Create Rural Veterans Advisory Board
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Donnelly-Championed Private Care Options for Vets Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury Included in House-Passed Defense Bill
- ^ News Releases: Donnelly (IN02): Congressman Donnelly Announces New Veterans' Community-Based Outpatient Clinic To Open In Elkhart County
- ^ Congressman Says Local VA Hospital Needed; Mishawaka Hospital Site A Potential Location | WSBT South Bend – Your Local News Leader | Local News[dead link]
- ^ [2], Retrieved November 25, 2010.
- ^ FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 165. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ [3], Retrieved November 25, 2010.
- ^ a b [4], Retrieved November 25, 2010.
- ^ [5], Retrieved November 25, 2010.
- ^ [6], Retrieved November 25, 2010.
- ^ a b "Full text of House Resolution 3: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act". Govtrack.us. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ "What is 'forcible rape' exactly?". The Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/what_is_forcible_rape_exactly.html.
- ^ Coyne, Tom (May 9, 2011). "Democrats pin hopes on Donnelly, Ind. Senate race". Buffalo News. Associated Press. http://www.buffalonews.com/wire-feeds/24-hour-national-news/article417696.ece.
- ^ "About Joe". Joe Donnelly for Congress. http://www.joeforindiana.com/about-joe. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
External links[link]
- U.S. Congressman Joe Donnelly official U.S. House site
- Joe Donnelly for U.S. Senate official campaign site
- Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
- Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
- Congressional profile at GovTrack
- Congressional profile at OpenCongress
- Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
- Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
- Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
- Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
- Appearances on C-SPAN programs
- Profile from SourceWatch
| United States House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by Chris Chocola |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 2nd congressional district January 3, 2007 – present |
Incumbent |
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| Preceded by Joe Courtney D-Connecticut |
United States Representatives by seniority 271st |
Succeeded by Keith Ellison D-Minnesota |
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| Short description | American politician |
| Date of birth | September 29, 1955 |
| Place of birth | Massapequa, New York |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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