Robert Byrd: “We could have more deaths in the mines any day. It is a critical piece of our infrastructure that we dare not continue…”

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

To me the most powerful majority leader I ever witnessed was Robert Byrd in the period of '77 to '81.

The path of wilderness legislation can be as rugged as the land itself.

I find this tactic contrary to every Senator's duty to act in good faith.