On Saturday, the boys and I went down to Dover to march in the annual Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association parade. For us, the best part of the parade is before it starts, when we walk up and down the streets of Dover and the boys can check out all of the fire engines lining up. The boys brought their own plastic fire hats from the Hockessin fire company to wear during the parade, but Adam ended up using his as a receptacle for his lunch and Zach figured out that he could get a rise out of me by tossing his out of the wagon during the parade and making me chase it down as it swirled around in the wind. Here is a picture of me and Attorney General Beau Biden, who had his own baby with him, marching in the parade. We are laughing because I finally revealed to him after months of his nagging what hair products I use to achieve the look I have.

At the national level, there is some real activity with respect to health insurance. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton became the third Democratic presidential candidate to announce a plan to try to achieve universal health insurance coverage. You can read about it here. I support The Other Biden for President, but I am encouraged to see that across the board, our potential Democratic presidential nominees are offering specific, concrete plans to deal with the nation’s uninsured problem. It also appears that Congress is nearing a compromise on reauthorization of the CHIP program, which provides subsidized health insurance for children in families between 100% and 200% of poverty. You can read about that here. The President is threatening to veto the compromise bill, and if he does, we are going to have one heck of a fight on our hands.