Robert Byrd: “There's been a savings of 29,000 lives because Congress saw fit to act in 1969.”

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

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.

The reconciliation process was designed to facilitate legislation to reduce deficits. Instead, the process has been used to enact multi-trillion-dollar tax cuts that led to record deficits over the last 8 years.