Forget the economy!
Vice President Joe Biden says the White House is working "around the clock" on the problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and on the Indian Ocean.
Asked by a reporter to address the matter -- which is suddenly in the news after speedboating Somalis briefly commandeered and hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship off northeast Africa -- Biden interrupted his weekly meeting with Cabinet members and administration officials on the spending of stimulus funds to declare that: "This is being worked on around the clock since this happened."
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