Joe Biden: “I hope we follow the advice of the Senator. We know this is the right thing to do. We know it is, as a minimum, worthy…”

“I hope we follow the advice of the Senator. We know this is the right thing to do. We know it is, as a minimum, worthy of scientific study to determine whether this can be done with efficacy. And we also know--I do not fully understand, frankly--we also know there are certain interests that do not want that to happen. Because they are fearful--the only thing I can conclude, Senator, is they are fearful that the study will come forward and say, ``Guess what? You can do this without in any way diminishing the effectiveness of fertilizers used for agriculture.'' Because, obviously, if the study is going to come back and say you cannot do this without diminishing significantly the capacity of the fertilizer to function, that cannot worry them because if that is the case we are not going to do it. There is no way that would get done here. So I always am confused by this response. I was confused in 1973 about why people responded the way they did. I hope we will not let interests that I do not fully understand sidetrack even a study.”