Robert Byrd: “Instead of taking power away from a President, to me the reconciliation process has given power to the President.”

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

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.

If Congress cannot pass a budget, then we should not be paid.

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