Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have been feuding for years – a fight that could spill over if he decides to go ahead with a presidential run, Politico is reporting.
Biden, the former vice president, is deciding whether to make a run for the White House, while Warren is already a candidate.
Their personal feud dates back to when Biden was a senator from Delaware and Warren was a Harvard law school professor.
At the heart of it was a bill designed to address the skyrocketing rate at which Americans were filing for bankruptcy, Politico noted. Warren was against the bill and accused Biden of trying “to sell out women” by pushing for earlier versions of the legislation.
As the bill neared a vote in 2005 the two grappled publicly.
Biden accused Warren of making a “very compelling and mildly demagogic argument” about why the bill would hurt people because of medical debt or credit card bills, Politico pointed out.
Warren blamed lenders and said many credit card companies charged too much in fees and interest.
The bill was approved and signed into law and made it more difficult for Americans to discharge debts from things like credit card and medical bill, according to Politico.
Former Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., voted against the bill. He described it as “one of the worst pieces of legislation of all time”
And in a post on her now-defunct blog, Warren accused Biden of “twisting arms to get the bankruptcy bill through Congress.”.
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