SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Delaware
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Biden, 63, has chaired the Foreign Relations Committee once before and is the leading Democratic voice on foreign policy. Elected to the Senate at 29, he has spent most of his adulthood on Capitol Hill.
He was a supporter of the Iraq war but has been a consistent critic of the administration's military strategy and diplomacy. An internationalist who believes in the United Nations, Biden repeatedly called for the firing of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In May, after his sixth trip to Iraq, Biden said the country should be partitioned into separate but linked regional authorities in northern Iraq for the Kurds, in southern Iraq for the Shiites and in central Iraq for the Sunnis.
Biden has considered running for president several times and has said he intends to be a candidate in 2008. Biden, who commutes most days by train between his Delaware home and Capitol Hill, is a booster of Amtrak and throws an annual Christmas dinner for the train crew.
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