Walter Mondale: “I don't want the Senate to become the House. I want it to be the unique body that it has always been.”

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.

I find that offensive to the traditions of the Senate.

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

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.