Robert Byrd: “I urge my colleagues to carefully consider the institutional and practical problems that fast track presents.”

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

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.

Let us clearly understand one thing. The Constitution's Framers never intended for the Senate to function like the House of Representatives.

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.