mr. edwards: it was bipartisan, it was jesse helms in the senate, dana rohrabacher in the house, bob torricelli, who was a liberal democrat in the house. dana rohrabacher furry -- very conservative republican. jesse helms was held off by liberal democrats. it was bipartisan from the very beginning. that was something we always insisted upon. host: what was the first step? mr. edwards: the first step was to get a congressional resolution saying that this should be built. we had to go to that, drawing upon the support and the help of someone like tom lantos, a marvelous liberal democrat from california, holocaust survivor, the only one ever to serve in congress, and later chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. having his support was important. there we had dana rohrabacher and tom lantos together for this project. that helped us to get it approved.