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

Do you think it was a good thing to have a special counsel in the Jack Abramoff case?

it would be better off for the country if you would pick somebody that we all could buy into

Vice President Biden was on TV morning, noon, and night urging the Bush administration to appoint a special counsel in the Valerie Plame case.

I think you would be doing the country a great service to appoint someone new that we all could buy into.

the very people who are in charge of a White House that I believe has compromised national security unlike any time in recent memory

there is no doubt in my mind that if the shoe were on the other foot, you and everybody on that side would be screaming that I have to appoint a special prosecutor

If there was ever a need for an outside special counsel, it is now.

Bipartisan support for such a measure initially surfaced when Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham reached across the ideological and party divide to cosponsor the first Chinese currency bill in 2005.

to the majority leader, well done. I think we are going to be able to voice vote a resolution that states the policy of our country and our President very clearly. To the Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Menendez, great job on the sanctions. I…

Well, here is my view about that. I think the President would be wise to include the Congress. I am a conservative who thinks the War Powers Act is unconstitutional. I find it odd that our party for all of these years has railed against…

I would just close and yield the floor to Senator Menendez. The Senator is right about the resolution. We are not coming up with a new idea; we are just reinforcing an idea put on the table by our own President--we are not going to contain…

Well, let me try to answer that. Senator Menendez and a group of us--Senators Lieberman and Casey and Hoeven and myself--did the resolution in question today to echo the President's statement that we are not going to have containment as a…

The Senator is correct. Here is what President Obama said: All options are on the table when it comes to the Iranian nuclear program. Israel, I have your back. Containment is not an option. I agree with the President. I think he has made…

Yes. Mr. McCAIN. So doesn't that mean the United States of America would reserve all options in case of an unacceptable situation where the Iranians continued--and we have seen no deviation from that path-- toward the acquisition of a…

Senator Corker asked a very good question, and I will answer it directly, as Senator Lieberman did. The resolution is not designed to authorize the use of force where anybody in the State Department administration could say, we have the…

I wish to echo what my friend from Connecticut, Senator Lieberman, has said. I wish to get this done so we can vote and send the appropriate signal. It is not so much we act before Tuesday, even though that is important, but that we let…

I want to treat people fairly. I believe in all of the above. But I am not going to sit on the sidelines and go back to a pre-9/11 model of where the criminal justice system is the only tool available to fight this war.

I think we should have as many options as possible within our values and within the law of war and the criminal justice system to defend ourselves.

I do not believe it is the policy of Obama administration that foreign terrorists captured in the United States cannot be tried by military commissions and cannot be held as enemy combatants.

We have a right to defend ourselves.

It is not the crime on terror. It is the war on terror.

U.S. citizens are not eligible for military commission. Do you agree with that?

I think they want to kill us everywhere, but particularly here.

I rise in support of the compromise that was outlined by Senator Cantwell. Basically, 6 years ago the Congress of the United States by voice vote reauthorized the Export-Import Bank. If you are in business, like Boeing and GE, and…