Robert Byrd: “The tyranny of the majority.”

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

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.

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.

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