Ted Stevens: “Well, I think we'd like to visit with you later, in a classified situation, to discuss this.”

The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

I do believe that it is of such significance that we cannot turn away from it.