State Dept. on Speaker of State Pelosi's Proposed Trip to Iran

From today's briefing received via email:

QUESTION: A couple things on Iran. First of all, Pelosi says she's thinking of going there now with Tom Lantos in tow. Can you give me any reaction on that?

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, I'm not sure that that has happened in 27 years that you've had the Speaker of the House travel to Iran. You know, I don't know how serious she is about those plans and I don't think that we have heard from her that she plans to do it. I know that there's a mention of this in a press conference. So at this point, I'm not going to try to react to something that was just mentioned in perhaps an off-hand way in a press conference. But it would certainly be a departure from 27 years of past practice.

QUESTION: Do you think if she does go that this is, you know, a dangerous trend that's happening and the Democrats kind of trying to circumvent what you're trying to do?

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, whatever members of Congress ultimately decide to do with respect to their travel schedule, I don't think that there's any confusion on the part of the American people or the international system as to who is responsible for the formulation of foreign policy as well as its execution. That is the Executive Branch led by President Bush, so I don't think there's any confusion about that.

That's diplomat for "Chick better get off our turf."