Robert Byrd: “You might share that one so we could really talk about coal mine inspections.”

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

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

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

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.