Bob Corker: “I arrived today to speak to the McCain amendment. I noticed my colleague from Arizona was just on the floor. I wanted to…”

“I arrived today to speak to the McCain amendment. I noticed my colleague from Arizona was just on the floor. I wanted to say I appreciate him offering this amendment. As with the Coburn-Feinstein amendment, I support his amendment. I also wanted to make reference to the comments he made regarding our conflict in Libya. I agree with him--these are my words--that it is bizarre the administration sent over a letter yesterday, referring to the fact that we are not involved in hostilities in Libya. It is really totally bizarre when you look at what is going on in the air in Libya right now. I have no idea why Mr. Coe would have offered this argument. I know we are going to have a hearing in Foreign Relations in the next couple of weeks to look at this issue. Thirdly, I would like to point out one of the reasons we are in this situation right now where Congress has not authorized anything in the administration--I sent a letter to the administration, Secretary Gates and Secretary Clinton, 9 weeks ago just asking five questions about our engagement in Libya. I received last week a letter from an Acting Assistant Secretary that gave me half an answer on one of those five questions. I think most people in this body are aware that Senator Webb and I then authored a resolution asking 21 questions of the administration regarding Libya. I thank them for transmitting to us some information on Libya yesterday. We have not yet gotten access to the classified versions of it.…”