Robert Byrd: “The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.”

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.

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.

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