Robert Byrd: “I was distressed to see that the President has proposed to cut, C-U-T, cut funding for over $750 million of programs in…”

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.

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

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