Byrd takes to Senate floor to bid Kennedy goodbye

A frail Sen. Robert Byrd addressed the Senate for the first time in months Thursday to pay tribute to Sen. Edward Kennedy, his one-time rival and longtime dear friend.

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Byrd released from hospital after more than month

Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-than monthlong illness.

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Sen. Byrd to remain in hospital this week

Sen. Robert Byrd's office said Monday that the ailing lawmaker "continues to improve" after more than a month in the hospital but is unlikely to return to work this week.

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Byrd expected to be released soon from hospital

Sen. Robert Byrd's office says the ailing lawmaker does not plan to return to work this week, but that he's expected to be released from the hospital in the near future.

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Emotional Byrd denounces war, pays tribute to Kennedy

Sen. Robert Byrd's stem-winding opposition to the war in Iraq wasn't in fashion when U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein more than five years ago.

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Byrd's chairmanship seems safe despite his age and health

At the age of 90, Sen. Robert Byrd is increasingly frail. He usually relies on a script. And he's taken to a wheelchair since a recent fall and two stints in the hospital.

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Byrd Hospitalized After Fall

Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday after complaining of back pain following a fall at his home, his spokesman said.

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Riding High, Obama Ponders His Future

When Sen. Barack Obama slipped into Sen. Robert Byrd's Capitol office one day last year, he was seeking counsel from an elder who had been in the Senate since before Obama was born.

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U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd is opposing "cap and trade" legislation pushed by the Obama administration.

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How I Think The Constitution Can Be Fixed (Part III [a]: Article I – The Legislative Branch)

Congress, The Legislative Branch of The United States of America was, as 'the people's house', intended to be the most powerful of the three branches of government created by The Constitution… a 'first among equals', as it were.

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Age is finally catching up with West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd in the winter of his 54-year career in Congress.

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The longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama's hands. More Articles

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Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama's appointment of White House "czars" to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.

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Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who is battling a brain tumor, was taken away from the congressional luncheon in convulsions.

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Sen. Ted Kennedy has collapsed at a luncheon held for President Barack Obama at the Capitol, CNN and ABC News report. Paramedics arrived on the scene, and Kennedy was taken from the luncheon on a stretcher.... See more irresistible headlines

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Elder Statesman Robert Byrd Yields to Friend and Ally Barack Obama: stepping Down as Dean of Appropriations in Senate, Byrd Clears Path for Major Spending Reform

In the run-up to the first press conference of the incoming Obama administration, we got an announcement that at first seemed almost a time-filler as the news networks waited for the start of Obama's remarks, but which in the final analysis may be the most consequential announc …

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The nation's longest-serving U.S. senator tells candidates John McCain and Barack Obama that to be the great president America needs they need to be what George W. Bush was not.

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This morning, the Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, heard testimony from Pentagon officials about their efforts to counter waste and fraud in federal contracts related to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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When the Inspector General for the Defense Department recently released a 69-page audit to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform criticizing the 'reckless at best', accounting practices by the Pentagon of the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation that could …

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Byrd endorsement humanizes Obama from chattel to mainstream leader

As a black person born in and married to a black woman who finished high school in West Virginia, I was glad to see Senator Robert Byrd endorsing Senator Barack Obama to help to reestablish the good name of the white people of W. Virginia.

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Will white people try to kill Obama too?

"It is not a question of 'will' but 'when', on an assassination attempt of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama by white people, says Under- privileged Media publisher Elbert Devrny Jr. . "They slew Martin Luther King and Jesus Christ.

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To recap - spade, shuck and jive, fairy tale image, denigrate Dr.

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Presidential one dollar coins are the only U.S. coins currently being issued by the United States Mint that have the inscription "In God We Trust" along the edge, but public pressure soon may send the motto back to the front or back of the coins.

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Congress and the American public were treated to a sales job on Iraq that would have made any used car salesman proud.

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Today, I sent a letter to President Bush urging him to reconsider the ill-advised veto threat of the Fiscal Year 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations legislation.

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President Bush is notorious for issuing statements taking exception to hundreds of bills as he signs them. This week, we learned that in a shocking number of cases, the Bush administration has refused to enact those laws.

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Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent.

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WASHINGTON, May 3 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq, injecting presidential politics into the Congressional debate over financing the war. Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War …

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The White House and the Democrat Congress has been engaged in a battle over Iraq War funding, with the president arguing that the bill needs to be passed quickly because it will affect not only the ability to fight in Iraq, but also the soldiers' welfare.

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We must not sidestep the fact that in October 2002 a sensible alternative to voting for the war did exist, but it was rejected.

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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, rejected the widely held view in Washington that the Bush administration's decision to send additional troops to Iraq is the last chance to succeed in that troubled countr …

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Senate Democrats and Republicans broke a difficult stalemate last night and approved 96 to 2 expansive legislation to curtail the influence of lobbyists, tighten congressional ethics rules and prevent the spouses of senators from lobbying senators and their staffs.

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