That is what we have been told in the paper. We also have a story about the kill list--a blow-by-blow description of how President Obama personally oversees who gets killed by drones in Pakistan, and at the end of the day, I am not so sure…

Well, I tell you what. Why don't we let my colleague speak, and then the Senator from Illinois will have all the time he needs. What does my colleague, the Senator from Georgia, Mr. Chambliss, think?

my comment, in response to the question Senator McCain has, is what we do today becomes precedent for tomorrow. So are we going to sit on the sidelines here and allow the Attorney General--who is under siege by our colleagues in the House…

I would like all three Senators to comment on this proposition. You have just challenged the President, who is the Commander in Chief, by the way, to fix the problem that your Secretary of Defense has said would be most devastating to our…

Well, one, I hope my colleagues will stay around for a minute or two because this is an important topic to be talking about. Let me put this in the perspective of what we are trying to do and what we are trying to avoid. We are about $16…

Yes, it is. Mr. McCAIN. So we are asking the Defense Department to plan on what our force structure will be, what our mission will be, what our capabilities will be, beginning the first of October, and all I can see so far is total…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Honoring our Armed Forces Sergeant First Class Brad Thomas, Lieutenant Ryan Davis Rawl, and Sergeant John…

Would the Senator yield? Mr. McCAIN. Yes. And I know our most eloquent member has arrived on the floor, not to mention other attributes we are lacking.

I rise to pay tribute to three fallen National Guard members from South Carolina who were killed in Afghanistan on June 20, 2012, in Khost Province. They were members of the 133rd Military Police Company who were serving on this duty…

I ask consent to be recognized for 5 minutes to speak about the Supreme Court's ruling. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

there are a couple observations I would like to make about the historic ruling by the Supreme Court today. No. 1 is about the legislative process. Members of Congress during the debate on Obama health care had a very passionate, heated…

One of the roles that Congress provides in our democracy is oversight, and this is an issue that I am glad that we are talking about.

The individual conduct has to be balanced against who we want to be as a nation.

President Obama's attempt to go around Congress and the American people is at best unwise and possibly illegal.

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

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…

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…

I think it not only would serve Mr. Holder well, but certainly the country well. We are setting the precedent that if we do not appoint a special counsel--and I don't know these two U.S. attorneys at all. I am sure they are fine men. But…

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

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

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

I applaud you tremendously for doing that.

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

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

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