Robert Byrd: “If Congress cannot pass a budget, then we should not be paid.”

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

The use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.

I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.