On the recordJuly 17, 2003
Well, I am aware of the fact that there was a part of that Web site that one can no longer get into. "Behind the Scenes" is what it was entitled. I hold up in front of the Senator now something that was on the Web site that one could go to, but one cannot anymore, talking about how the President prepares the State of the Union Message. It says: Behind the Scenes, State of the Union preparation. And it shows the President with his hands out there. It shows the President going over his speech word by word. Under this, it says: While working at his desk in the Oval Office, President Bush reviews the State of the Union address line-by-line, word-by-word. I want the Senator from North Dakota to know that Senator Durbin-- this is on his behalf but certainly I underline and underscore what he wanted to be printed in the Record--we are to a point that the Senator from North Dakota said we are. It is the credibility of not necessarily going to war in Iraq, which is certainly part of it, but the credibility of this country in the world. Can the United States of America, the great country that it is--can people depend on the word of the President of the United States? And certainly in that they have taken this off the Web site, it indicates that there is certainly a problem with the President going over his speech word-by-word, line-by-line.
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