Robert Byrd: “We can correct this deplorable treatment of history in our schools and we must.”

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.

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

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.

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