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Claude Allen
Helms 1984 Press Secretary
Claude A. Allen served as Jesse Helms's 1984 campaign press secretary, and then as a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1985 to 1987. Having graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1982, Allen received his law degree from Duke University in 1990. He then clerked for a federal judge, practiced law in Washington, D.C., served in the Virginia Attorney General’s office, and became Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the State of Virginia. In 2001, Allen was appointed by President George W. Bush as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in 2005 and 2006, providing advice on all non-economic policy issues including education, health care, labor, housing, veterans, HIV/AIDS, and other domestic issues.
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Fred Barnes
Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard
Fred Barnes is currently executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a conservative political commentator. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for the New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to The Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator. He is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. Barnes appears regularly on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998 he was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.
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Senator Joseph Biden
(D - Delaware)
Sitting on the opposite side of the political aisle from Senator Helms, Democrat Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the age of 29, and is recognized as one of the nation’s most powerful and influential voices on foreign relations, terrorism, drug policy, and crime prevention. Biden is currently serving his sixth term, is sixth-longest serving among current senators (fourth among Democrats) and Delaware's longest-serving senator. He is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. During 2007-2008, Biden was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election. |
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Bono
U2 Lead Singer and Activist
The lead singer of Irish rock band U2, Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Ballymun, Dublin. Acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world, U2 has sold over 140 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammies. Bono is also a well-known activist in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. In 2002, he co-founded DATA (debt, AIDS, trade, Africa) to raise public awareness of the issues in its name, and influence government policy on Africa. On behalf of DATA's agenda, Bono has lobbied U.S. presidents and congressional leaders, along with the heads of many other G8 nations. In 2001, Bono met with then-Senator Jesse Helms to discuss the African AIDS crisis and retirement of Third World debt. |
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