Walter Mondale: “I really beg you not to turn the Senate into a legislative body that is very comparable to the House.”

If we fail to do that, I am convinced that this committee has failed and that in another 50 years, there will be hearings just like this in which the excesses that we have uncovered will have been repeated.

We told the truth. We obey the law. We kept the peace.

I make this statement in opposition to the S1134 because I believe that the huge bridge that would be authorized by this measure is a brutal assault on one of the most magnificent rivers in America.

There is a right way to legislate and a wrong way to legislate.