Cord Byrd: “did I hear the Senator include the provision that there be no second-degree amendments?”

From winter, plague and pestilence, good Lord, deliver us!'' wrote Thomas Nashe in 1600, in ``Summer's Last Will and Testament,'' to which I add a hearty, ``Amen!'' At last, this Saturday, March 20, spring arrives, both by calendar and…

I oppose the Shelby amendment. In our zeal to protect consumers from egregious banking and lending practices, I fear the Senate is paying too little attention to basic constitutional tenets. The Shelby amendment proposes to create a…

in his essay on ``Politics and the English Language,'' George Orwell laments the abuse of speech by political leaders. He notes how certain words are so vague in meaning that they can be twisted and distorted into something they are not…

1 year ago, Congress sent the President a war funding supplemental that included clear direction to bring our troops home by December of 2007. The President chose to veto that bill. If he had signed that bill, most of our troops would be…