Robert Byrd: “Efforts by the United States and its allies to build Afghanistan's economy dramatically lag behind efforts to train and…”

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.

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

The use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.

I have said that, as long as the Senate retains the power to amend and the power of unlimited debate, the liberties of the people will remain secure.