14 Oct, 2010, Thursday, VP Biden's schedule

10:15 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

12:15 pm The President and the Vice President have lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press

1:30 pm The Vice President attends an event for Representative Brad Ellsworth
DC, Washington
Open Press

6:00 pm The Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden host a reception in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
Naval Observatory
Open Press

8 Oct, 2010, Friday, VP Biden's Schedule

12:00 pm
The Vice President attends an event for Congressional candidate Denny Heck
Local Event Time:
9:00 AM PDT
Seattle, Washington
Open Press

2:30 pm
The Vice President delivers remarks at a rally for Senator Patty Murray
Local Event Time:
11:30 AM PDT
Tacoma, Washington
Open Press

4 Oct, 2010, Monday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

1:45 pm
The Vice President delivers remarks at a rally for Governor Ted Strickland
Ohio, Youngstown
Open Press

5:30 pm
The Vice President attends an event for Governor Ted Strickland
Ohio, Youngstown
Closed Press

23 Sep, 2010, Thursday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

8:30 am The Vice President attends an event for Senator Barbara Mikulski
Chevy Case, Maryland
Closed Press

11:30 am The Vice President and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius host a conference call with senior citizens from across the country

The Vice President and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will discuss the benefits of the Affordable Care Act for senior citizens and mark the six month anniversary of the enactment of the law. Vice President Biden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will make an important announcement regarding provisions in the new law that will help bring down the cost of prescription drugs for seniors on Medicare.
Open Press

12:30 pm The Vice President meets with British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
Roosevelt Room
Pool Spray at the Top
Gather time for press is 12:15 PM in the Brady Press Briefing Room
2:15 pm The Vice President meets with the recipients of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award
Closed Press

21 Sep 2010, Tuesday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

9:15 am The Vice President meets with Senator John Kerry
Closed Press

10:30 am The Vice President hosts a roundtable meeting with university presidents from six leading research institutions to discuss Recovery Act investments in university research programs
Roosevelt Room
The Recovery Act provided more than $18 billion for scientific research through the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Federal investments in university research programs have led to countless medical breakthroughs, and keep us on the forefront of new technologies. Participants will discuss how research at their institutions, supported by the Recovery Act, is not only creating jobs now, but is planting seeds for entire new industries in the future. The Vice President will also be joined by Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Pooled Press


12:30 pm The President and the Vice President have lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press

1:15 pm The President awards Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, the Medal of Honor; the Vice President also attends
East Room
Open Press

3:00 pm The Vice President meets with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou
Roosevelt Room
Pool Spray at the Top

4:30 pm The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary of Defense Gates
Oval Office
Closed Press

20 Sep 2010, Monday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

According to Vice President’ Biden’s Official schedule on the web, he has only one activity for today:

9:30 am The Vice President delivers remarks at the U.S.-Japan Council’s Annual Conference
DC, Washington
Open Press

However, intermixed on the President’s Official schedule page on the web is:

12:30 pm The Vice President attends an event for Governor Ted Strickland
Dayton, OH
Open Press

5:45 pm The Vice President delivers remarks at a rally for Governor Ted Strickland
Akron, Ohio
Open Press

16 Sept, 2010, Thursday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president


10:15 am The President and the Vice President receive the Economic Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

10:45 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

12:15 pm The President and the Vice President have lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press

2:30 pm The Vice President meets with staff of the Middle Class Task Force and policy experts on the middle class
Closed Press

4:30 pm The Vice President will meet with Senator Arlen Specter
Closed Press

Sep 14, 2010, Tuesday: VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

9:30 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

10:00 am The President and the Vice President receive the Economic Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

12:00 pm The Vice President attends a lunch meeting with Cabinet Chiefs of Staff
Closed Press

The above was listed on the Vice President's schedule. The below was listed on the President's schedule, but clearly says "The Vice President"
3:30 pm The Vice President hosts a conference call with Governors from across the country to discuss implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Closed Press

Sep 13, 2010, Monday, Vice President Biden's schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

11:00 am The President and the Vice President meet with the national security team for the regular monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Situation Room

Expected attendees include:

The Vice President (via videoconference)
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State (via videoconference)
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff
General James Jones, National Security Advisor
Tom Donilon, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Ambassador Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
Leon Panetta, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
Jack Lew, Deputy Secretary of State
Neal Wolin, Deputy Secretary of Treasury
Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Doug Lute, Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Afghanistan and Pakistan
John Tien, Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan
General James Mattis, Commander, CENTCOM (via videoconference)
General David Petraeus, Commander, International Security Assistance Force and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Ambassador Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)

Closed Press

6:30 pm The Vice President attends an event for Representative Joe Sestak
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Closed Press
[Note, this is listed under the President's Official Schedule, even though it says it is the VP who is attending the event.]

Sept 10, Friday, VP Biden's schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president



No public schule

Sept 9, 2010, Thursday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

10:00 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

Sep 8, 2010, Wednesday, VP Biden's Schedule

8:00 am The Vice President hosts a breakfast meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Naval Observatory
Closed Press

9:45 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

10:30 am The Vice President meets with Governor Bill Richardson
The White House
Closed Press

Sep 7, 2010, Tuesday, VP Biden's schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

10:00 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

10:30 am The President and the Vice President receive the Economic Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

11:10 am The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary Clinton
Oval Office
Closed Press

12:45 pm The President and the Vice President have lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press

4:30 pm The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary Clinton
Oval Office
Closed Press

6:30 pm The Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden host a Rosh Hashanah reception
Naval Observatory
Closed Press

Sep 3, 2010, Friday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

No public schedule.

Sep 2, 2010, Thursday, VP Biden's schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

No public schedule.

Sep 1, 2010, Wednesday: VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

No public schedule.

August 31, 2010, Tuesday, VP Biden's schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

No public schedule.

VP Biden in Iraq

The Vice President's schedule, on the official government website, has "No public events" scheduled for today. Yet the newspapers are saying that Biden is now in Iraq.

This is annoying, as frankly the person who does the official web schedules for the VP seems to be doing him a disservice. We should have been alerted, surely, when Biden took off to fly to Iraq? It just makes me wonder how much else Biden is doing on days when his schedule says "No public events." I assumed it meant he wasn't doing anything, except putzing around the Senate, but perhaps he's doing things after all.

Biden in Iraq to Mark End of U.S. Combat Mission

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq today to participate in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. combat mission there and to push Iraqi leaders to break their political stalemate, according to a White House statement.

President Barack Obama will give an Oval Office address tomorrow on the U.S. role in Iraq as American forces in the country have dropped below 50,000 from about 144,000 at the beginning of the year. All U.S. troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from the country by the end of next year.

This is Biden’s sixth visit to Iraq as vice president. While there, he will meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and other officials “to urge Iraqi leaders to conclude negotiations on the formation of a new government,” the statement said.

Iraqis are facing political uncertainty stemming from a five-month deadlock over the formation of a new government following March 7 parliamentary elections and a renewal in violence as the U.S. completes the pullout of its combat forces.

Sept. 1 marks the official transition of U.S. operations in Iraq from combat to an “advise and assist” role of training Iraqi forces, protecting American interests and conducting counterterrorism operations.

Campaign Promise

Obama campaigned on a promise to end the U.S. combat role in Iraq, which has lasted since the March 2003 invasion to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein and disarm the country of biological and chemical weapons, although no such weapons were found.

The war has cost $750 billion and the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers. Almost 32,000 U.S. personnel have been wounded.

Biden last visited Iraq in July when he urged Iraqi leaders to resolve their political differences and speed up the formation of a new government.

Obama tomorrow will visit troops at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, the nation’s second-largest military base, before giving the televised address to the nation.

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama is commemorating a “milepost” in the conflict as the U.S. mission changes.

With tens of thousands of U.S. troops remaining in the country, Obama has said violence will not stop and many Americans will remain in harm’s way.

“There are still those with bombs and bullets who will try to stop Iraq’s progress,” the president said in Atlanta to Disabled American Veterans on Aug. 2. “The hard truth is we have not seen the end of American sacrifice in Iraq.”

--Editors: Joe Sobczyk, Bill Schmick

Aug 30, 2010, Monday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president

No public schedule.

Aug 27, 2010, Friday, VP Biden's Schedule

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete

No public schedule.