Robert Byrd: “what makes this body unique is the unlimited right to amend and the unlimited right to debate.”

Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.

The reconciliation process was designed to facilitate legislation to reduce deficits. Instead, the process has been used to enact multi-trillion-dollar tax cuts that led to record deficits over the last 8 years.

I think that as long as we have respect for the institution and for the Minority to be heard, that this will bring accountability to the process.

No one has done more for miners in this country than Senator Robert C. Byrd, of West Virginia.