Robert Byrd: “Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.”

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

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.

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