Robert Byrd: “I do not accept that job losses in the coal industry are an inevitable consequence of cleaner air and water.”

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.

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

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

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