Robert Byrd: “I have said that, as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power of unlimited debate, the liberties of…”

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.

The use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

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