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

Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.

There's been a savings of 29,000 lives because Congress saw fit to act in 1969.

I believe that efforts to change or reinterpreted the rules in order to facilitate expeditious action by a simple majority are grossly misguided. The Senate is the only place in government where the rights of a numerical minority are so…

Never, ever, ever get rid of the filibuster. It is the guardian of minority rights and an essential engine for consensus.