Robert Byrd: “Miners have rights under the law to walk away from an unsafe work environment.”

Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.

I find this tactic contrary to every Senator's duty to act in good faith.

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

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.