News Logest-serving U.S. Senator Robert Byrd Dies

[Tycho]

The longest-serving US Sen. Byrd (D-WV) dies at 92. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10431559.stm

 

[jinglesassy]

Thats sad my mom met him awhile ago

 

[ddom2006]

Tis a great shame to lose him. His service to Congress was staggering.

 

[NukeET]

Tis a great shame to lose him. His service to Congress was staggering.

For much of his long life, a man like the now canonized late Sen. Robert Byrd made the early lives of men like Justice Clarence Thomas miserable. Contrast the present eulogies for Byrd with the past Senate hearings over Thomas.