Candidate Profile for Joe Biden

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Candidate Profile
Joe Biden

Democrat

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Name: Joe Biden
Party: Democrat
Race: President/VP of the United States
Incumbent: Yes
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Conservative Organizations

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation's largest public policy women's organization with a rich 40-year history of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy. There's a cultural battle raging across this country and CWA is on the frontline protecting those values through prayer and action. We focus on seven core issues: sanctity of life, education, defense of family, religious liberty, national sovereignty, sexual exploitation and support for Israel.

Concerned Women for America (CWA), 2012: 9%

The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public.

Center for Security Policy, 2009-10: 6%

Founded in 1964, ACU represents the views of Americans who are concerned with economic growth through lower taxes and reduced government spending and the issues of liberty, personal responsibility, traditional values and national security.

American Conservative Union (ACU), 2012: 0%

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process. AFP is an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state, and federal levels. The grassroots activists of AFP advocate for public policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory restraint.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), 2012: 0%

Club for Growth is a national network of thousands of pro-growth Americans, from all walks of life, who believe that prosperity and opportunity come through economic freedom. We work to promote public policies that encourage a high growth economy and a swift return to America's founding principles primarily through legislative involvement, issue advocacy, research, training and educational activity.

Club for Growth, 2012: 0%

Since 1983, Family Research Council (FRC) has advanced faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion. FRC's team of seasoned experts promotes these core values through policy research, public education on Capitol Hill and in the media, and grassroots mobilization.

FRC Action, 2012: 0%

National Right to Life, the largest nationwide network of pro-life people dedicated entirely to protecting life.

National Right to Life, 2012: 0%

CONSERVATIVE AVERAGE

Liberal Organizations

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 55 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO was created in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and the CIO.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 2012: 100%

AFSCME is the nation’s largest and fastest growing public services employees union with more than 1.6 million active and retired members. AFSCME’s members provide the vital services that make America happen. We are nurses, corrections officers, child care providers, EMTs, sanitation workers and more. With members in hundreds of different occupations, AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families.

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 2010: 100%

The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.

Human Rights Campaign, 2011: 94%

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LIBERAL AVERAGE

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Selected Contributions

Liberal

GIVEN BY CANDIDATE

DanPAC (HI), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local, County, and District Democratic Organizations, State Democratic Party Organizations

RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE

ActBlue, Amalgamated Transit Union, America Works PAC, American Association for Justice, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Brad Schneider and

ActBlue
Amalgamated Transit Union
America Works PAC
American Association for Justice
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
Brad Schneider
Chris Coons
Communication Workers of America
DakPAC
DanPAC (HI)
David Frockt
Democrat, Republican, and Independent Voter Education
Dennis Deconcini
Dianne Feinstein
First State PAC
Glacier PAC
Grover Connell
Human Rights Campaign
Impact PAC
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
International Association of Firefighters
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Jack Markell
Jeremy Ring
Joe Geller
John A. Girardi
John Carney
Laborers International Union of North America
Local, County, and District Democratic Organizations
Matt Cartwright
MoveOn
Narragansett Bay PAC
National Air Traffic Controllers Association
National Committee for an Effective Congress
National Education Association
PAC for a Change
Reuniting Our Country PAC
Ro Khanna
Searchlight Leadership Fund
Sheet Metal Workers International Association
Shelley Berkley
Sierra Club
Ted Deutch
Tejano Democrats
Tom Carper
Transportation Workers Union of America
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United Mine Workers of America
United Transportation Union

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Summary

100%

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Questionnaire

Please note: Responses are entered electronically by the candidate and are listed verbatim.

1. Should the Healthcare law be repealed?

OPPOSES - He offered his support for the healthcare law in a speech to the N.A.A.C.P.’s convention in July 2012. Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/biden-defends-health-care-reform-and-decries-voter-id-laws/

2. Should the definition of marriage be broadened beyond one man and one woman by state or federal government?

SUPPORTS - In his interview with Meet the Press in May of 2012, he stated, “ I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction -- beyond that." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/vice-president-biden-gay-marriage_n_1489235.html

3. What is your position on expanding gun control?

UNCLEAR - In an interview with CBS “Meet the Press” after the Trayvon Martin shooting, he said, “It's important that people be put in a position where their Second Amendment rights are protected, but that they also don't, as a consequence of the laws, unintendedly put themselves in harm's way … The idea that there's this overwhelming additional security in the ownership and carrying concealed and deadly weapons... I think it's the premise, not the constitutional right, but the premise that it makes people safer is one that I'm not so sure of.” Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/01/Biden-Gun-Control-Trayvon

4. What is your position on abortion?

SUPPORTS - Based on his support to maintain government subsidies for Planned Parenthood in the final negotiations of the 2011 funding bill, it can be concluded that he is pro-choice. Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/16/19-senators-support-bidens-efforts-on-planned-parenthood/

5. What is your position on tax increases?

SUPPORTS - According to an April 24th, 2012 post to www.ontheissues.org, “during debt ceiling talks, Biden made it clear that Obama would only sign on to a deal that included revenue increases.” Source: http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Joe_Biden_Tax_Reform.htm

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