Robert Byrd: “To me the most powerful majority leader I ever witnessed was Robert Byrd in the period of '77 to '81.”

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.

I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.