Robert Byrd: “Since fiscal year 2007, Congress has provided over $3 billion, that's $3 for every minute since Jesus Christ was born.”

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

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.

Let us clearly understand one thing. The Constitution's Framers never intended for the Senate to function like the House of Representatives.

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