Ted Stevens: “It is a very short statement. It was the Senate committee who vote that provision and those grants are to public…”

A country that picks up or identifies a launch might legitimately worry whether the weapon carries a nuclear or conventional payload.

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

Shame on us. It's because we're addicted to oil in one arm, and we're addicted to greed that somehow we have convinced people that we can't do it.

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.