He handles lots of foreign policy (he is just back from China and Japan) and heads the odd task force (there was one on the middle class, for example).

ECONOMIST: More vice than virtue

Let me also note that this question from Alex in Ohio happens to be about the same topic that the Middle Class Task Force is focusing on this month.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

My Middle Class Task Force and the Council on Environmental Quality recently released a report titled "Recovery Through Retrofit, " that explains some of these hurdles and how we can overcome them: providing homeowners with straightforward and reliable information on retrofitting their homes, reducing their costs to do it, and ensuring that we've got a well-trained workforce ready to make it happen.

WHITEHOUSE: Retrofitting for Energy Efficiency and New Jobs

There will be mention of -- we'll go from themes to issues when we discuss creating jobs, some of the task force, Middle Class Task Force recommendations on things like that.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Well, I wanted to stop by to comment on all the great work that the Middle Class Task Force is doing.

WHITEHOUSE: Key Investments for Middle-Class Families

Vice President Biden and the Middle Class Task Force just wrapped up a town hall meeting on college affordability at Syracuse University.

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At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry.

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