Robert Byrd: “The challenges before our nation are too grave, too numerous, for the Senate to be rendered impotent to address them.”

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 Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

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

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