Robert Byrd: “I'm troubled by the budget request to reduce Coast Guard military strength by 1,112 positions.”

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.

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

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