Robert Byrd: “I will be carefully monitoring the changes you have implemented that will, I hope, greatly reduce the amount of time…”

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

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.