Jeff Bingaman: “We applaud Chairman Bingaman as well as the co-sponsors for introducing this legislation.”

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 19, 2012. The PRESIDING OFFICER. With objection, it is so ordered. Committee on Foreign Relations

We fully support Chairman Bingaman's caution that any temporary storage facility must not become a permanent one.

I wouldn't be here without it.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 19, 2012, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``The…