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PEORIA — Like others, Martha Herm was dazzled by Joe Biden. At the time — March 31, 2010 — Herm was the executive director for Peoria’s Center for the Prevention of Abuse, and Biden was two years into his vice presidency in the Obama administration. Biden, a crucial player in passing 1994’s Violence Against Women Act, had been invited to Peoria as keynote speaker for the organization’s annual Partners in Peace Awards fundraising event. “His speaking ability was fabulous,” says Herm, who five years ago retired after 26 years with the center. “His ability to connect was terr...

Calls are growing for Biden to do what DeVos did: Let states skip annual standardized tests this spring Valerie Strauss © iStock/iStock (iStock) There are growing calls from across the political spectrum for the federal government to allow states to skip giving students federally mandated standardized tests in spring 2021 — but the man that President-elect Joe Biden tapped to be education secretary has indicated support for giving them. The issue will be an early test for Miguel Cardona, the state superintendent of education in Connecticut whom Biden picked for educa...

Biden says his climate team has 'no time to waste' POLITICO 12/19/2020 By Alex Guillén © Provided by POLITICO President-elect Joe Biden announces his climate and energy team nominees and appointees in Wilmington Del., on Saturday. President-elect Joe Biden formally unveiled his team of White House and Cabinet officials on Saturday who he promised “are committed to facing climate change by delivering environmental justice” as they put the country on a path to eliminating greenhouse gases by mid-century. Biden introduced the six nominees and appointees whose names emer...

He wants his vice president, joe biden, who was standing just a few feet away to challenge his former secretary of state, hillary clinton. though biden's brother frank was far less cautious telling the palm beach post "i'd like nothing better. i make no bones about the fact that i'm one of the voices in the big clan that says go joe, go." that encouragement comes as clinton took her biggest hit yet in the polls. a "wall street journal"-nbc news poll revealing a majority of white women, 53%, now have an unfavorable view of clinton. shocking for someone running to be the first female president i...

That may not go big. >> well, and it certainly will go broad. that will deal with mental health, that will deal with, you know, background checks in the largest possible way. i've talked to democratic senators who say we'll probably focus on some areas where we can get bipartisan consensus, rather than go to the tip of the spear on magazines and assault weapons. it's curious to note, back in '94, biden was the one who opened those initially, because he thought it would tank the crime bill. which we -- he, of course, is authoring. >> you get the sense there might be some unease here with biden,...