Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Recovery Act at the Brookings Institution - washingtonpost.com

Biden: Thank you very much, Strobe.

(APPLAUSE) It's a pleasure to be back. And I told Strobe in the anteroom that, "Mr. Secretary, the many, many times that I've been here, almost always the subject has been foreign policy, and I hope I have an opportunity to come back and discuss some of those areas at a later date."

But today, I want to talk about the economy, specifically the Recovery Act. President Obama and I when we entered office, we were in the midst of what I refer to as the great recession. It seemed that every day that we woke up from the day we were sworn in there was a new revelation to be added to the economic parade of horribles, that we -- some of which we had anticipated...