Robert Byrd: “I find this tactic contrary to every Senator's duty to act in good faith.”

To me the most powerful majority leader I ever witnessed was Robert Byrd in the period of '77 to '81.

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

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.