Robert Byrd: “The budget proposes to cut CBP by over $300 million. I am troubled by this proposed cut.”

Mr. Blankenship, why, why, why so many fatalities at Massey mines?

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.

It is to force there to be a group of senators on either side who have to respect one another's views so that they work together and produce 60 votes on important issues.

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