Robert Byrd: “Let us also hope that this hearing will provide information on the Government and company officials who should be held…”

The path of wilderness legislation can be as rugged as the land itself.

It is to force there to be a group of senators on either side who have to respect one another's views so that they work together and produce 60 votes on important issues.

The Senate has been the last fortress of minority rights and freedom of speech in this Republic for more than two centuries. I pray the Senators will pause and reflect before ignoring that history and tradition in favor of the political…

the use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.