Hours before voting to clear the way for health care reform in the Senate, Republican Senator Tom Coburn said on the floor, "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote ...

Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, Dead at 92 Published June 27, 2010 • Updated on October 13, 2010 at 10:50 am Log in or create a free profile to save articles ...

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd died Monday at 92. He was an outspoken proponent of legislative power and served in the Senate for 51 years, longer than anyone else in American history. (For more on ...

Leave it to black folk to tell it like it is, while exercising some restraint, and we love it. CBC Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) released a statement on the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd of ...

If anything good has come from the loss of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who died yesterday at the age of 92, it’s another milestone in the changing of America’s political face. As you no doubt ...

An agreement with Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia salvaged a key piece of President Biden’s agenda. But Democrats still have a few crucial steps to take before it becomes law. By Emily ...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a fall at his home, his spokesman said. Byrd, 90, the Democratic chairman of the ...

A bluegrass album featuring legendary lawmaker Robert Byrd, who died earlier this week at 92, will be reissued by a Virginia record label. Byrd, a one-time Klansman from West Virginia who became the ...

Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia was elected to the US Senate in 1959, just after Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union. He served for 51 years, longer than any other member. In failing ...

Senate Democrats are coming around to the view that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in American history, needs to be replaced as chairman of the Appropriations ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hundreds of West Virginians, two U.S. presidents and dozens of family members and friends gathered Friday to pay tribute to Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S.

Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, Dead at 92 Published June 27, 2010 • Updated on October 13, 2010 at 10:50 am West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Klansman who became a Democratic ...