Robert Byrd: “I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.”

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

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

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

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