Joe Biden: “I realize the majority leader is very busy, and he has a lot of pieces of legislation he has to deal with and a lot of…”

“I realize the majority leader is very busy, and he has a lot of pieces of legislation he has to deal with and a lot of other matters relating to national responsibilities and the Republican Party. However, I want to point out to him, he keeps talking about 60-some amendments. It is down to 16 amendments, No. 1. No. 2, of the 16 amendments, there are only 4 amendments that there is a problem with here. The four amendments relate to guns. That is what this is about. The President wanted wiretapping authority in this. We have an amendment for that. The other side does not want to get tough on those terrorists and allow the Government to wiretap them. I understand that. It is a civil liberties issue from their perspective. I understand it. But the President wanted it. The President wanted posse comitatus, but apparently some of the posses out West do not want posse comitatus change, so we will have a vote on it. The President also wants it in this bill. He wanted some authority relating to immigration that the other side does not want. It was in his bill. They took it out. I understand. That is one of the amendments in here. There are four amendments, five amendments, with regard to time agreements--the longest 90 minutes, the shortest 20--relating to habeas corpus. The President says he wants habeas corpus. He did not say he wants the Republican habeas corpus; he says he wants habeas corpus.”