Robert Byrd: “Thank you for more than 40 years of standing up for coalminers.”

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

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

There's been a savings of 29,000 lives because Congress saw fit to act in 1969.

It is to force there to be a group of senators on either side who have to respect one another's views so that they work together and produce 60 votes on important issues.