Robert Byrd: “I put holds on people. I don't like it at all. When I do so, I do it publicly.”

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

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

If Congress cannot pass a budget, then we should not be paid.

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.