Robert Byrd: “I do not recognize today's budget process from what was intended in the 1974 Act, and vote-a-rama was certainly never…”

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.

No one has done more for miners in this country than Senator Robert C. Byrd, of West Virginia.

There's been a savings of 29,000 lives because Congress saw fit to act in 1969.

The path of wilderness legislation can be as rugged as the land itself.