For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.