Robert Byrd: “Could you please, not only take a look, but let this subcommittee know your response to that question?”

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.

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

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

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.