Robert Byrd: “I am 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 Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

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.

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