On the recordDecember 4, 2010
We need to complete the impeachment as quickly as we can to make sure everything is fair, and we will make sure that is the case. We expect some work to be done on Tuesday, with votes required in the Senate. Most of the proceedings will be closed. We hope we can complete this on Wednesday. I am confident, having spoken to the managers, that we should be able to do that. If not, we will complete it whenever we can. We hope we can have some arrangements made on the tax issues by then. We have to take care of spending for the rest of the year. We also hope there is time to do the START treaty, but we need to move to that either with some kind of general agreement or we can just move to it. We want to leave the Friday before Christmas Eve. That would be 8 days before Christmas. We hope we can do that. That is the plan. We all know where we were last Christmas Eve, and we don't want to be in the same place this Christmas Eve.
