On the recordOctober 24, 1997
it is again an honor and a privilege to join with one of the great constitutionalists in the history of the U.S. Senate, Robert C. Byrd, who has written the history of the Senate. I can so well remember the occasion on which that great volume was introduced. One of our finest American historians was present saying that it is difficult to understand and very hard to forgive that there has been so little scholarly attention given to this body, to the Congress, as against the Presidency, and suggesting that it is not hard to explain. There is only one President, and there are 435 of us--a more complicated subject that comes later in our historymaking. But I think it may be said that in the history of relations between the Congress and the Presidency there has never been an issue equal in importance to the constitutional challenge we face with the Line-Item Veto Act.
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