Carl Levin actually said...

"Robert C. Byrd was a member of this committee for nearly 3 decades."

"I think any effort to connect that failure on the part of the Dutch to the fact that they have homosexuals... is totally off target."

"I think the burden to maintain a discriminatory policy is on the people who maintain the policy, not on the people who want to end it."

"That is, as Senator LeMieux says, a painful bit of news that the taxpayers are not going to be particularly happy to hear."