Robert Byrd: “sometimes, the minority may be right.”

These laws are also jeopardized when the miners themselves are not incorporated into the heart of the inspection and enforcement process.

Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.

I find this tactic contrary to every Senator's duty to act in good faith.

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.