It is remarkable that liberals are lionizing Robert Byrd, even though he represented the alleged structural problems in the Senate and the practice of earmarks, and abandoned his bigoted principles in order to keep power.

Senator Robert Byrd was a champion of the Senate, working to protect its fundamental character and trying to preserve a functioning Senate that would make the framers proud.

The political career of the late Senator Robert C. Byrd, which spanned more than 57 years in Congress, had its ups and downs but his determination to hard work and respect for tradition embodies the American spirit.

We used to refer to legislators as minnows and whales. Giaimo and Byrd are whales.

The so-called Byrd Amendment, under which funds collected from antidumping and countervailing duty cases (which compensate for alleged subsidies) are distributed to affected U.S. companies, has been the subject of great controversy since its passage by Congress in 2001. In January 2003, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization...

Opponents of capital punishment are extremely selective about the cases they make into public crusades. Strategically, that's smart; you don't want to lead your argument with "unsympathetic persons." But logically, it's problematic.

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not employ the nuclear option or go nuclear, as many headlines and stories suggested. He did not use an unprecedented ploy to challenge the filibuster or in any real way change Senate rules by majority vote. What Reid employed was closer to a firecracker than a nuke.

Congress must take action to reform the use of the filibuster, but a recent congressional hearing offered some hope as it was more than partisans just talking past one another.