Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Robert Byrd [D, WV]

Writer distorted political history

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...and that was the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. The remainder, such as Albert Gore Sr., William Fulbright, Richard Russell, Robert Byrd and John Stennis, remained with the Democratic Party. Albert Gore Sr. was the father of the former vice president, and Wil

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U.S. Builds Largest Biometric Database

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...the time a match was made, a criminal using a fake name might be back on the street. The FBI had to modernize, and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), had a solution: If the fingerprinting division left the Hoover building in Washington and moved to West Virgin

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Senate votes to extend unemployment benefits

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...benefits for at least 14 weeks and expand a tax credit for homebuyers. The final vote was 98 to 0 with Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri not voting. “With each passing day without an extension, more and mor

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Congress passes spending that Obama had sought to cut

2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

...Feinstein, D-Calif., who, as chairwoman of the Senate interior appropriations subcommittee, helped write the bill. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., legendary for the billions of dollars he has steered to his state and for being a fierce guardian of congressi

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U.S. climate bill spurs low-carbon jobs debate

2009-10-28T00:00:00Z

...Montana, another coal state, also voiced opposition on Tuesday to the 20 percent target. A third Democratic senator, Robert Byrd, also of West Virginia, has not yet staked out a position on the revised Senate bill. Byrd praised Boxer's additions in the

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Bluestone Dam gets funding approval

2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

The agency is now about halfway through the Bluestone Dam Safety Assurance project, which is expected to be complete about 2020. Sen. Robert Byrd, DW. ...

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Gerard Shields for Oct. 26, 2009

2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

The longest serving senator, Democratic US Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, has served 50 years, nine months and 19 days. Byrd, 92, remains in the Senate.

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Gerard Shields for Oct. 26, 2009

2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

...finished 20th, having accumulated 35 years, six months and 24 days. The longest serving senator, Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, has served 50 years, nine months and 19 days. Byrd, 92, remains in the Senate. The list was compiled by C

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Coal industry protections drafted into climate bill

2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

...over several months among the staffs of several senators from coal states, in a group chaired by Tom Carper, D-Del. Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., Max Baucus, D-Mont., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Mark Warner, D-Va., participated

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Byrd's wise warning: Afghanistan is the grave of foreigners

2009-10-25T00:00:00Z

WEST Virginia Senator Robert Byrd refers to himself as “a student of history.” In fact, he is history. The longest serving senator in the history of the ...

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BTL:W. Virginia Community Rallies to Safeguard Schoolchildren from Coal ...

2009-10-24T00:00:00Z

In 2006, he walked more than 500 miles from Charleston, W. Va. to Washington, DC to urge Sen. Robert Byrd (DW. Va.) to support the community's efforts to ...

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Inouye's longevity benefits isles, nation

2009-10-24T00:00:00Z

He follows only Sen. Robert Byrd, DW.V., and the late Sen Strom Thurmond of South Carolina in career longevity by senators. ...

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The Buzz | Wonderful sounds fill the Obama White House

2009-10-24T00:00:00Z

West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd reappeared on the Senate floor last week with some of his old bluster back after a season of frailty, this time to manage ...

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2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

Out of the 29 Nay votes, 28 votes were from Republicans and one vote was from Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI). Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), Senator Orrin Hatch ...

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Talkline Host Hoppy Kercheval

2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the recommendation by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd of Charleston Attorney Nick Casey to fill a vacancy on the federal bench in the northern ...

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State faces $340 million deficit

2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lobbyist Robert Byrd, a member of the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC), said he did not attend the briefing, but, like Schwartzkopf, ...

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DOES WORLD OPINION MATTER?

2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

... relations professor and served as press secretary to Sen. J. William Fulbright, foreign/defense policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ...

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2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

Out of the 29 Nay votes, 28 votes were from Republicans and one vote was from Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI). Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), Senator Orrin Hatch ...

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Byrd's Back in Action

2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

...Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), 91, who has been in ill health for much of the year, appears to be back on the job, returning to the Senate floor this week to manage the Homeland Security spending bill and deliver an impassioned speech on U.S. policy in Afghanis

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2009-10-22T00:00:00Z

Just how the cap-and-trade debate will play out in the Senate remains to be seen. Sen. Robert Byrd, DW.Va,, has been the most vocal in opposing any ...

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