Robert Byrd: “I have been contacted by the Governor's Office of West Virginia about the slow response from the Labor Department.”

The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

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.

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