Robert Byrd: “I strongly commend the Majority Leader for this progress, and I strongly caution my colleagues, as some propose to alter…”

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.

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.

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