Robert Byrd: “Have you ever lived in a coal mining camp?”

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

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

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.

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