Robert Byrd: “The situation in this region is increasingly dire. Al Qaeda's surviving leaders have proven adept at hiding…”

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.

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

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

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.