Alan Cranston: “I think we have a great opportunity to expand those markets for all our growers in the country.”

The Senate must decide whether we stand with the oppressed or with the oppressors.

These provisions, which establish a $150 million trust fund from which all claims are to be paid--an amount which may not be adequate--deny to 5,000 Marshallese, who have already filed claims, their day in court.

Upholding the [eventually successful] Mansfield point of order only adds one tree to a jungle of precedents we reside in. But above and beyond that jungle stands the Constitution, and no precedent can reverse the fact that the Constitution…