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Robert Byrd Lies in Repose in His Beloved Senate
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 1) - The Senate opened its doors for a final time Thursday for Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginian of humble origins who became a Senate fixture for nearly a quarter of the nation's history. A military honor guard carried Byrd's casket up the Capitol steps, past the senator's portrait in a reception room and into the Senate chamber, where he was to lie in repose for six hours, allowing members of Congress and the public, many not born when he first entered the Senate 51 years ago, to pay their respects. Byrd, who died Monday at age 92, served longer than any other senator in ...
Opinion: Byrd Was Third in Line for the Presidency?
By not in system - AOL News(July 1) -- The death of Sen. Robert Byrd at 92 highlights a strange and unsettling fact about the American political system. At the time of his death, the senator -- who had to be gently removed from his perch as Appropriations Committee chairman in 2008 because of his inability to do that job -- stood third in line for the presidency. A decapitating strike at the nation's government that killed or incapacitated the president, vice president and speaker of the House would have put Byrd in the White House. It is clearly way past time to revisit the line of succession for the nation's ...
Opinion: Byrd Evolved, Unlike Many of His Critics
By Alan Colmes - AOL News(June 28) -- West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd wasn't even gone yet when posters on right-wing websites were dancing on his grave. At Andrew Breitbart's site, the nastiness was sickening. Among them (reprinted verbatim): Hasta la vista KKK Birdman. Funny how old D-rats are falling like flies this year. (Yes that WAS an insensitive statement. Deal with it!) oh ya let me say something *nice* about the Kleagle: . ooops - "Grand Kleagel" sorry will the kkk march in his funeral procession? and will they be before or after the naacp representatives? and will his headstone monument be smaller, ...
Constitution Is a Best-seller on Capitol Hill in the Palin-Tea Party Age
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe U.S. Constitution has hit the best-seller list -- on Capitol Hill at least. With both political parties citing the Constitution at seemingly every turn, the pocket edition of the document, along with the Declaration of Independence, reached No. 10 on the Government Printing Office best-seller list in March, The Hill newspaper reports. The Government Printing Office has sold 8,700 copies of the Constitution since last September. In addition to sales -- $2.75 a copy at the printing office, just a few blocks from the Capitol -- thousands of copies are given to members of Congress who then ...
Byrd Becomes Longest-Serving Senator, 'An Orphan Who Made History'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenators paid tribute Wednesday to Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving member of Congress in American history with nearly 57 years in the House and Senate. In addition to Senate speeches, a ceremony for Byrd will take place at the West Virginia State Capitol Wednesday afternoon, which Byrd will attend. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, kicked off the morning of speeches. "There will never be another senator like Senator Byrd, and today's milestone is another record that will never be broken," Reid said. Reid then listed a few of the records that Byrd has set in office, ...
Stuart Smalley, More Sanford and #PdF09: Politics Dailies - June 30
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyA great writer says goodbye to Reader's Digest to explore writing for a bold, new politics website full time. Did Mark Sanford's mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, have a domestic rendezvous with the S.C. governor? Should we really expect our representatives to know what they're voting for? Meghan McCain rejects requests to pose semi-nude on the grounds that it would hurt her father's career. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), 91 years young, has been released from the hospital but will not be returning to the Senate immediately. As of this posting, 22 news stories aggregated by Google News have ...
So Which Senators Didn't Want Credit Card Reform?
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyYou've probably read that the both the House and Senate passed credit card reform legislation this week -- and by sweeping margins. The House vote was 361-64, which was impressive enough, until you compare it to the Senate, which voted 90-5.In fact the margin was so wide in the Senate, it had a lot of folks wondering who out there didn't think it was a good idea to eliminate double-cycle billing and predatory rate hikes on the most vulnerable Americans. Heck, even Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NRA) voted in favor of the bill-- albeit only after amending it to usher handguns into national parks.Well here ...
Sen. Robert Byrd Hospitalized
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), 91, has been taken to a Washington, D.C. hospital. His spokesperson said the cause was minor infection, and that Byrd's doctor admitted the Senator as a "precautionary measure" late Friday afternoon after he showed a "a spike in temperature." Byrd is oldest member of the Senate and the longest serving senator in American history. He had been the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee until 2008, when the Senate opted for fresher blood with its new chairman, Sen. Dan Inouye (D-HI), 85. As the president pro-tem of the Senate, Byrd is third in line to the ...
Republicans Are Really Serious About Knocking Off Jim Bunning
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyUnlike some people, we're not totally delusional. Just because we report something in this space does not mean we believe everyone reading will accept it as fact.So we can understand if some of you were skeptical last week when we reported that the Republican Party would field a primary challenger for Sen. Jim Bunning (RHP-KY), who then threatened to sue the party or resign his seat altogether.But now the New York Times is on the case, and they've reached a similar conclusion...While the Democrats are preoccupied with Senator Roland W. Burris and his ties to a tainted Illinois governor, the ...
Who Was Our Greatest President?
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyHappy Presidents Day!C-SPAN, the network that brought you Lindsey Graham's Christian Bale impersonation and "nap time with Robert C. Byrd," has just surveyed 65 leading historians in hopes of ranking America's presidents from best to worst.Well the historians have weighed in (having previously done so in 2000) and the results may shock you...Benjamin Harrison has leapfrogged Martin Van Buren for the title of 30th best!While you're recovering from that bombshell, you might care to know that Abraham Lincoln came in first place, just as he did in the last survey. He was followed by George ...
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