Joe Biden: “I hope both of my friends from Oklahoma and my friend from North Carolina--speaking to my friends from Oklahoma…”

“I hope both of my friends from Oklahoma and my friend from North Carolina--speaking to my friends from Oklahoma-- understand that we do not want the delay in this bill. This bill got delayed in the House of Representatives for close to 6 months. I did not hear people coming to the floor with me and saying, ``Where is the bill, where is the bill, where is the bill, where is the bill?'' Now we are told to make this bill workable, and we should not attempt to do better. I cannot believe the Senator from North Carolina would support a provision allowing, for example, someone to be taught how to make another fertilizer bomb to blow up another Federal building--maybe this one in North Carolina--and maybe learn how over the Internet. He would not want that to happen. Yet, he is probably going to vote against adding that provision back into the bill. He will probably vote, ``No, I will not send it back to the conference and have them include that provision.'' We had a provision saying you cannot teach people how to make fertilizer bombs, plastic bombs, and baby food bombs on the Internet, when you know the intent is for that person to use it. Yet, they are all going to stand here and vote against me on that. I find that fascinating. I hope the folks in every one of our districts remember this. They are going to vote against me when I say we want to prevent future Oklahomas. We want to take care of those victims of Oklahoma and make sure retribution is had.”