Robert Byrd: “Massey mines were cited for 31,000 violations. This means that, on the average during that 10 year period, a miner was…”

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

Let us clearly understand one thing. The Constitution's Framers never intended for the Senate to function like the House of Representatives.

I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.

Congress has authorized the most aggressive miner protection laws in the history of the world--history of the universe.