All murder comes from hate and all people need to be protected under the law. We're not going to segregate Americans for political ploys like the Democrats want us to do.

You are actually downgrading our homeland security and not adding to it in a time of war. That is shortsighted.

It's going to take . . . our entire Texas delegation, here and on the House side, to keep this whole. Obviously, there's a lot of projects in the bill that people want to keep.

As parents, Senator and Mister Hutchison decided that as their children near school age, they should be with their mom.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Nobody out there can say that if the state passed a hate-crime law any crime would decrease. People who commit heinous crimes should be punished.