Robert Byrd: “The use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.”

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.

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

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.