Joseph Biden actually said...

"This investment is not only consistent with a nonproliferation agenda, it is essential to it."

"This investment is not only consistent with our nonproliferation agenda, but essential to it."

"Some of the facilities we use to handle uranium and plutonium date back to the days when the world's great powers were led by Truman, Churchill, and Stalin."

"If we don't take meaningful steps to rein in our debt, it could damage our markets, increase the cost of borrowing, and jeopardize our recovery--all of which would have an even worse effect on our job..."