Robert Byrd: “Instead of taking power away from a President, to me the reconciliation process has given power to the President.”

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.

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.

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.