Joe Biden

There is no basic security. It is bizarre, absolutely bizarre. I'm actually angry about it.

I truly am confused. I don't doubt what the Senator says. I don't fully understand it. It is a fleet average. Toyota makes an automobile--I am making this up--that gets 60 miles per gallon when people drive around in Tokyo that they will…

Why don't we change the standard, the CAFE standard? Why is no one recommending that? Why don't we say that every vehicle, based on weight, no matter where it is made, must meet the same exact standard? Why don't we do that?

Not with that kind of rhetoric. He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric. And I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats.

Then he, this staff member, goes and contacts the CIA and says: You know, we would like to change the ground rules. We can say the intelligence community thinks the following, even if you disagree. We don't have to clear it with you. The…

That's right. Now, after that occurs, or in the process of this occurring, Mr. Bolton's Chief of Staff contacts the CIA on a disputed issue about what can be said, and says--I don't know if you were here when I said this. To tell you the…

A complete departure. But the point I am trying to make is he keeps pushing the envelope, he keeps pushing the envelope.

While my friend from Maryland is here, I want to point out, first of all, the request is very limited. We are looking for the names in 10 reports. It is totally circumscribed, the request as relates to this issue which you so painstakingly…

If the Senator would yield, not only a refusal to provide them to our committee that has that responsibility, refusal to provide them even to the Intelligence Committee that is once removed from this process--the same information that was…

At least in 10 instances. On 10 different occasions, when he got access to an NSA intercept that mentioned ``an American,'' Mr. Bolton went back to NSA, and, as I understand it--and I ask to be corrected by my staff--but as I understand…

First, let me finish this point. But, his staff says, you can tell Mr. Bolton he cannot say it only if it will reveal a source or a method. In other words, his staff was seeking carte blanche to allow Mr. Bolton to cherry-pick, as the…

If I may interrupt the Senator, any administration official who wishes to purport that he speaks for the administration, which includes the intelligence community, has to have his or her statement cleared on that specific point, yes. That…

Look we don't want to go forward with this vote unless we get the documents we've been looking for.

This is not a process where we're a rubber stamp parliament for the Bush administration.

I realize I have no more time. I ask unanimous consent for 2 additional minutes off the time of the Senator from Indiana.

Very shortly there will be a unanimous consent request on how to proceed on the Boxer amendment, which has not been introduced yet but will be spoken to shortly. I would like, with the permission of my friend from California, to make a…

For example, what you could improve is as people just standing here with the dogs. Just bomb-sniffing dogs. I mean it's basic block and tackle stuff.

There is no basic security. It is bizarre, absolutely bizarre. I'm actually angry about it.

We appreciate the leadership Senators Lugar, Biden and Hagel and others in the Congress have shown on this issue.

This and the Secretary of Defense jobs are the two most important jobs we vote on.

I'm going to vote for Dr. Rice.

I choose hope over experience.

The President gets to propose and we dispose.

And I hope to God she doesn't believe that.

We better start to speak simple English.