Robert Byrd: “My instinct tells me--and I have pretty good instincts that when it comes to this budget, you were dealt a bad hand by…”

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.

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

Massey mines were cited for 31,000 violations. This means that, on the average during that 10 year period, a miner was seriously injured every other day.

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