User Clip: Incivility in the Senate
Robert Byrd's speech on Incivility in the Senate
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Robert Byrd's speech on Incivility in the Senate
On parties in the Senate
Best part of the speech.
he would be ashamed to be a senator
The slow debate process and arcane rules ensures hasty bad legislation is not passed
are the core of the senate
and not the person
must be preserved
can preserve the Constitution
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I see it as my duty to defend the prerogatives of the executive branch and the separation of powers. Indeed, I recognize that the executive branch has…
than being called a liar
to work together in the Senate
The President not only claims that the November 5 Whitewater meeting is cloaked in attorney-client privilege, but that the privilege applies against Congress. No Congress in history, however…