Joe Biden

Kevin Sosa                                                                            

Staff Writer

  
Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council.

At the age of 29, he became one of the youngest people to be ever elected to the Senate of the United States. A couple of weeks after this honor, a tragedy happened to his family.  Biden’s wife, Nelia, and their one year old daughter, Naomi, were killed. Their two young sons were also injured in the car accident.  In 1977, he remarried a woman named Jill Jacobs.

As a senator from Delaware for 36 years, Biden established himself as a leader on some of our nation’s most important domestic and international challenges.
Joe Biden was elected as Vice President  when Barack Obama got elected as United States President in 2008.   As the 47th Vice President of the United States, Vice President Biden has continued to face important issues of the nation.

 Works Cited

"Vice President Joe Biden." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-biden>.   
 
Flickr. Yahoo!, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv>.

Paul Ryan, Candidate for Republican Vice-President

By Alexia Garcia

Staff Writer

Paul Ryan was born on January 29,1970 in Janesville, Wisconsin. His dad was Paul Ryan, Sr. who worked as an attorney. His mom, Betty Ryan, was a stay at home mom. Paul Ryan had one sister named Janet Ryan. Paul also had 2 brothers, Tobin and Stan.

At age 16 Ryan found his father, only 55 years old, dead in his bed from a heart attack.

Ryan has been married to Janna Ryan since 2000. They have three kids, a daughter named Liza Ryan, and two sons, Sam and Charlie.

Ryan got a degree in economics and political science at Miami University in Ohio in 1992. In 1998, at age 28, Ryan was elected to the U.S House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin Congressional in District 1. While working in the U.S. House of Representatives, he has also worked on the House Budget Committee and also is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Ryan has criticized several of President Obama’s political and spending plans, as well as his 2012 – 2013 federal budget proposal. Now Ryan is currently running for Vice-President of the United States of America.

Works Cited

"Paul Ryan Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2012. <http://www.biography.com/people/paul-ryan-20828085>.

United States Congress. Official Portrait of U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI). 2012. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. United States Congress, 2012. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Paul_Ryan_official_portrait.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Ryan_official_portrait.jpg&usg=__IHfS8H1EoOF_qSVgjRpvqTRZmf8=&h=2557&w=2046&sz=2246&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&tbnid=4pEiPWW7VwDzFM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=120&ei=myhrULyJJ4PUiwLln4CYBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpaul%2Bryan%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DX%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disz:l%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1>.