Robert Byrd: “Never, ever, ever get rid of the filibuster. It is the guardian of minority rights and an essential engine for…”

Twenty-nine men are now dead dead dead simply because they went to work that morning.

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

It is to force there to be a group of senators on either side who have to respect one another's views so that they work together and produce 60 votes on important issues.

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.