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As Barack Obama is outlining his cabinet, and team of advisers, I am here wondering what Joe Biden will be doing in the upcoming administration. Perhaps his strongest credential to me was his years on the senate foreign relations committee — it was the main reason why I thought he should be vice president. However, with Hillary Clinton taking the post as Secretary of State, will he really be able to take that on as his big cause of the administration? George H.W. Bush fought drug abuse and called for financial deregulation; Al Gore had the environment and technology; Dick Cheney had defense, and general tomfoolery.

It makes me wonder, What Will Biden Do? Here’s a few issues (aside from the foreign stuff) that he might be privy to:

• Biden used to be the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he passed the Biden Crime Bill, putting more cops on the streets and upping federal support for law enforcement; he proposed the White House install a “Drug Czar;” and, one of his more prominent bills, the Violence Against Women Act.
• He seems to be fairly involved with worker’s rights, and labor. He’s a proponent of OSHA, the Family Medical Leave Act, the expansion of Head Start, wage regulations, and curtailing exporting jobs overseas.
• Biden’s getting up there in age, so he might find working on elder’s rights and the expansion of medical care.
• Perhaps Biden would concentrate his knowledge of defense and foreign affairs to focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The way he has been talking about both wars has seemed pretty smart to me.