Robert Byrd: “Stop cutting the enforcement budget for MSHA.”

The Senate is more important than any or all of us, more important than I am, more important than the majority and minority leaders, more important than all 100 of us, more important than all of the 1,843 men and women who have served in…

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

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.

If Congress cannot pass a budget, then we should not be paid.