Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 13; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning…

Mr. President, Senators should expect two votes in relation to the sugar and SNAP amendments to the farm bill tomorrow. Senators will be notified when the votes are scheduled. ____________________

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any related statements be printed in the…

You never fix serious problems unless you actually acknowledge that we have one. And we have several.

The one thing to keep in mind about the fiscal cliff is it may not wait until December 31st.

I wonder if you could take the last couple minutes of this time to talk about how you see our relative position vis-a-vis Europe and other places, the political risk of our not accomplishing what we need to do on the fiscal side, and the…

I think it would be better to do something now so we do not create additional uncertainty among businesses and consumers.

I want to be generous, but I want it to be sustainable.

It's unsustainable for you, if we do not bring this program into some kind of a sustainable footprint.

If you want to double that, you're going to destroy the best military we've ever had.

You're having to make choices between the retired healthcare costs and fighting this war and future wars.

That there's a Pearl Harbor in the making here.

We're not going to get out of the debt by lowering the military spending alone.

It seems like the biggest bipartisan accomplishment we've had in recent memory is to destroy the Defense Department.

I applaud you tremendously for doing that.

I guess the difference is we are supposed to trust Democratic administrations, and we can't trust Republican administrations. I guess that is the difference. It is the only difference I can glean here. Certainly, the subject matter in…

Mr. President, if I may, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the letters written by Senator Obama and Senator Biden asking for a special counsel. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the…

That takes us to the bin Laden information. In the book there is a scenario where the Secretary of Defense went to the National Security Adviser, Thomas Donilon, and said, ``I have a new communication strategy for you regarding the bin…