 Three days later, however, the House of Representatives defeated the bailout proposal.The vice presidential debate took place on October 2, 2008, between U.S. vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, and Joe Biden, the senior Senator for Delaware, at Washington University in St. Louis, and was moderated by Public Broadcasting Service journalist Gwen Ifill.It was the first such debate to feature a female candidate since the 1984 vice presidential debate.