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.

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.

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