I want to commend Senators Bingaman and Feinstein and Murkowski for their leadership.

Congress has voted a number of times to retain Yucca Mountain as the national site.

We need to break the stalemate.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. A Second Opinion

I believe Yucca Mountain could be a key bridge to allowing nuclear energy to be a very viable part of America's energy mix.

When I think about Yucca Mountain, we need affordable domestic energy. And we need it now.

Madam President, yesterday, Vice President Biden and other Obama administration officials hosted presidents and leaders from colleges and universities at the White House. Officials promoted this event as an opportunity, they said, to…

With Treasury yield rates being at all-time historic lows, I think it becomes difficult to dispute that at some point in the next few years we will start to see a normalization and we will start to see yield rates return to their historic…

I think it cries out for a special council.

I do not. I think it rises to the level of a requirement for a special counsel, because in the view of director of national intelligence and mine, this is the most egregious breach that we have had in recent memory.

I think it cries out for a special counsel.

The president of the United States says nothing. It's just -- it's just shameful. I can't tell you how disappointed I am.

The release of the information in these articles harms our national security and puts in danger the lives of the men and women who are sworn to protect it. The only conceivable motive for such damaging and compromising leaks of classified…

Who benefits? Who's benefited from these leaks? That's what you always look for. And, obviously, the portrayal of the president as a strong and courageous leader throughout this narrative is what it's all about.

The president has been silent about this. By the way, he has about massacres in Syria, but it seems to me that every member of the administration, the vice president and the president, should be saying, look, this is a terrible breach of…

I withhold. I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Would the Senator withhold the request.

Madam President, the bad news keeps coming. Europe is in dire straits, with the debt-riddled economies of Greece and now Spain threatening the future of the continent's economic union. There is real concern that this debt-fueled contagion…