Robert Byrd: “Our strategic goal is very clear: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies.”

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

The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.

aside from the health and safety laws, what unconventional remedies exist to deal with a rogue mining company that has a reputation for flouting the law?