"Every day we see more evidence this economy is not working for middle-class Americans. If we honor work, we have to reward it." - Senator Joe Biden

Joe Biden has represented the state of Delaware in the United States Senate since he was elected in 1972, at the age of twenty-nine. Senator Biden is recognized as a leader in foreign policy as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as one of the nation's most influential voices on terrorism, drug policy, and crime. Nationally, Senator Biden has earned a reputation for working on a bipartisan basis with Republican colleagues and bringing real results that matter to Americans.

Throughout all his years serving as a United States Senator, Joe Biden has never lost sight of the true importance of family. Weeks before he was to assume his post in the Senate, his wife and three children were in a tragic car accident. His two sons survived but wife Neilia and Daughter Naomi were fatally injured in the crash. He was sworn into office at his son's hospital bed because he refused to leave their side, and to this day still takes the long train home to Delaware every evening so that he can spend time with his family. Joe Biden is a family man like no other, and his time in the Senate reflects his deep commitment to his family and the needs of all working families.

Senator Biden has a proven record of fighting hard on the issues that effect American working families. He earned a 100 percent voting record on working family issues in 2007 and a lifetime record of 85 percent. In addition to working-family-friendly positions on health care, Social Security, Medicare and other critical issues, Biden is a staunch supporter of workers' freedom to form unions and "bargain with their employers for a better life for themselves and their families." As a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, Biden told a Fire Fighters union presidential forum last year: "There is a middle class for one reason and only one reason in America. Organized Labor. That's why it exists."

Click Here for the National AFL-CIO's Working Families Vote 2008 page on Joe Biden.

Click Here to watch Joe Biden give a speech to the Steelworkers Union in Philadelphia that highlights issues affecting working familes.

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