Robert Byrd: “I expect to be charged for it. Wordsworth said, it matters not how high you may be in your department. You're still…”

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.

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.

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