Robert Byrd: “I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.”

Now, what happened to the Massey officials who allowed these dangerous and illegal practices to exist?

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…

These laws are also jeopardized when the miners themselves are not incorporated into the heart of the inspection and enforcement process.

Twenty-nine men are now dead dead dead simply because they went to work that morning.