d Medicare are programs that are valuable to the country that are going to go bankrupt because the baby boomers are retiring 10,000 a day and you’ve got a very small workforce. The system’s going to fail.

So what I would like to see from the president for me to raise the debt ceiling is to turn around the nation’s long-term indebtedness, adjusting the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 over decades like they did with Social Security. Means test benefits — there’s no reason in the world my prescription drug entitlement program should be subsidized by the general treasury. Have people in my income level pay the actual cost of Part B and Part D premiums on the Medicare side and means test [Social Security] benefits for upper-income Americans.

That will turn around America’s fortune and we won’t become Greece with entitlement reform.

from becoming Greece?

I would like President Obama to be remembered as a president who saved Social Security and Medicare from bankruptcy by working with Republicans. But he seems to have no inclination to be remembered for anything other than a guy who has a small view of our fiscal situation.

prevent our country from becoming Greece.

It is now time for you to demonstrate leadership and embrace big ideas in a bipartisan way.

America is on an unsustainable path. To continue borrowing money without addressing our entitlement problems is irresponsible.

viable way to negotiate a two state solution, that's between the parties themselves. I fear the Palestinian Authority will now be able to use the United Nations as a political club against Israel.

Most importantly, they will file complaints in the International Criminal Court against the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) or any other Israeli institution engaged in defending the Jewish state. This provocative step by the Palestinians could lead to using the International Criminal Court as a form to marginalize the state of Israel, an action that will not be accepted without consequence in the Congress.

We will not use American taxpayer dollars to support a Palestinian entity whose primary goal, if they file a complaint in the ICC, is to marginalize the Jewish state rather than live in peace with the people of Israel.

United States national security interests are best served by a traditional peace process between the two factions dealing with each other directly.

d questions’ about Ambassador Rice’s September 16 Sunday show appearances and the talking points she used.

Around 10:00 this morning in a meeting requested by Ambassador Rice, accompanied by acting CIA Director Mike Morell, we asked Mr. Morell who changed the unclassified talking points to remove references to al-Qaeda. In response, Mr. Morell said the FBI removed the references and did so to prevent compromising an ongoing criminal investigation. We were surprised by this revelation and the reasoning behind it.

However, at approximately 4:00 this afternoon, CIA officials contacted us and indicated that Acting Director Morell misspoke in our earlier meeting. The CIA now says that it deleted the al-Qaeda references, not the FBI. They were unable to give a reason as to why.

We are disturbed by the Administration’s continued inability to answer even the most basic questions about the Benghazi attack and the Administration’s response.

Beyond Ambassador Rice’s misstatements, we continue to have questions about what happened in Benghazi before, during, and after the attack on our consulate – as well as the President’s statements regarding the attack.

Perhaps most important, we also need to understand why the U.S. military was unable to respond within seven hours to save American lives in Benghazi and why our consulate was left so unsecure despite a series of previous attacks.

In more than a dozen letters, we and other Senators have repeatedly requested that the Administration provide answers to our questions. Yet, today most of them remain unanswered. We eagerly await their response.