[109] He voted to acquit during the impeachment of President Clinton.[110] During the 2000s, Biden sponsored bankruptcy legislation sought by credit card issuers.[21] Clinton vetoed the bill in 2000, but it passed in 2005 as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,[21] with Biden being one of only 18 Democrats to vote for it, while leading Democrats and consumer rights organizations opposed it.[111] As a senator, Biden strongly supported increased Amtrak funding and rail security.[86][112]

Brain surgeries
In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry aneurysm.[113][114] While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, a serious complication.[114] After a second aneurysm was surgically repaired in May,[114][115] Biden's recuperation kept him away from the Senate for seven months.[116]

Senate Judiciary Committee
Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994
Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He chaired it from 1987 to 1995 and was a ranking minority member from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997.
