Robert Byrd: “I thank you for your excellent statement, Admiral. My instinct tells me--and I have pretty good instincts that when it…”

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

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.

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

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