Robert Byrd: “I am aware, acutely aware, of the issue of minority rights.”

The Senate has been the last fortress of minority rights and freedom of speech in this Republic for more than two centuries. I pray the Senators will pause and reflect before ignoring that history and tradition in favor of the political…

I believe that efforts to change or reinterpreted the rules in order to facilitate expeditious action by a simple majority are grossly misguided. The Senate is the only place in government where the rights of a numerical minority are so…

If I die, I want you to know I love you.

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