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

I have said that, as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.

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

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.

Mr. Blankenship, why, why, why so many fatalities at Massey mines?