Robert Byrd: “If there are reports that mines are not being inspected because of the shortage of personnel, how can you be sure about…”

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

Let us clearly understand one thing. The Constitution's Framers never intended for the Senate to function like the House of Representatives.

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

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