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Dem VP Pick Biden Has History On Arms Control, Missile Defense, Foreign Sales

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Friday, September 5th, 2008

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Vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) brings to the Democratic ticket a reputation on Capitol Hill for questioning foreign-military sales, advocating for arms control, and calling for caution in developing missile-defense systems. While Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has fewer than four years of votes and speeches in the Senate for the defense industry to analyze, Biden has spent nearly 36 years dabbling in foreign affairs on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he now chairs. Some observers…

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