Robert Byrd: “Congress has authorized the most aggressive miner protection laws in the history of the world--history of the universe.”

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.

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

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