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	Robert Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byrd announced on September 27, 2005 at the State House in Charleston that he is running for a historic ninth term in 2006.
		Byrd's use of the term "nigger," a highly charged and deeply insulting epithet in the U.S. that was used against African-Americans, especially in the American South in the segregation era, created immediate controversy, although he was not challenged by interviewer Snow.
		Byrd was one of the Senate's most outspoken critics of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the Bush Doctrine's support of unilateralism and preemptive warfare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Byrd (4658 words)

	One Man's Pork Is Another's Bacon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, Byrd commands so much respect among his colleagues that he was able to turn one of the biggest political blunders of 2001 into one of the year's most forgotten.
		Byrd's considerable budgetary powers were on display through much of the fall as he practically dared the White House to veto the extra homeland security funding he had been seeking.
		One reason Byrd's comments didn't generate much of a long-term backlash was that his background as a member of the KKK was already fairly well known and something he has apologized for in the past.
	www.evote.com /features/2001-12/121901byrd.asp (1472 words)

	Robert Byrd: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byrd was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1947 to 1950.
		Byrd is currently called the "Father of the Senate" — the senator with the longest continuous service.
		Byrd sees himself as placing the prerogatives of the Senate and the needs of West Virginia before the interests of the Democratic party.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_byrd.htm (4925 words)

	Byrd vs. Bush - Salon
		Robert Byrd blasts fellow senators for believing "the garbage that was being spewed out by the administration" on Iraq, and thanks the airline passengers who "died to save this Capitol, my life and my staff."
		A prominent critic of the Iraq war, Byrd was one of 21 Democratic senators who voted against the October 2002 resolution that authorized the use force to topple Saddam Hussein.
		The result, Byrd says in his book, is that Bush pushed through a tax bill with disastrous fiscal consequences for the country -- acting as if he'd been elected with a resounding mandate instead of by an evenly and acrimoniously divided public.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/07/24/senator_byrd/index.html (1011 words)

	The Daily Athenaeum Interactive
		Senator Byrd's insensitive use of this word is proof of the great amount of work still awaiting us as a nation in healing the wounds inflicted on race relations by hundreds of years of hatred.
		Senator Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a deplorable organization responsible for unknown numbers of murders and ruined lives.
		In trying to excuse himself, Byrd has, on the few occasions his KKK membership has been raised as an issue, suggested his membership was the result of bad judgment and youthful indiscretion, even though he was in his mid-twenties.
	www.da.wvu.edu /archives/010404/news/010404,04,03.html (982 words)

	Transition
		Byrd said that restoring Senate tradition “could rob a senator of the right to speak out against an overreaching executive branch or a wrongheaded policy.
		In 1979, Senator Byrd led the establishment of a new precedent that allowed the Chair to rule on questions of germaneness raised during the consideration of appropriations bills - notwithstanding Senate Rule XVI, which states that all questions of germaneness on appropriations bills must be decided by the full Senate.
		Byrd also claimed in the second graf that “President Bush has renominated 20 men and women to the federal bench, seven of whom the Senate rejected last year.” That charge, though, is simply inaccurate.
	cornyn.senate.gov /record.cfm?id=232833 (836 words)

	Robert Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byrd focused most of his time on campaigning for the office of majority leader, more so than for re-election to the Senate, as he was unopposed for his fourth term.
		Byrd vigorously pursues a role of guardian of the Senate's powers and precedents, and has positioned himself as a leading historian of the institution and a master of its rules and procedures.
		On May 23, 2005, Byrd was one of fourteen moderate senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the "nuclear option".
	www.lynwood.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Robert_Byrd (3414 words)

	Citizens Against Government Waste: Byrd Droppings
		Byrd has set a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism by convincing the West Virginia Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol.
		Byrd's statue is currently housed in the Capitol Rotunda, as shown in the picture, and it is said if you stand under the statue the senator's hand points directly at your pockets.
		Given CAGW's long history of chronicling and criticizing Byrd's prolific spending, CAGW was not surprised when he contemptuously referred to the group as "a bunch of peckerwoods" on National Public Radio in the summer of 2001.
	www.cagw.org /site/PageServer?pagename=news_byrddroppings (699 words)

	Robert Byrd - MSN Encarta
		Robert C. Byrd, born in 1917, Democratic member of the United States Senate from West Virginia (1959- ).
		Robert Carlyle Byrd was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
		Byrd worked as a shipyard welder during the war.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761581482 (197 words)

	Robert Byrd Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byrd's responsibilities include administration of the clinical and research activities of the general pediatrics section, establishing a general pediatric research unit, directing patient care in outpatient and inpatient settings, guiding medical students and residents in clinical settings and delivering medical student and resident lectures.
		Prior to joining UC Davis in 1998, Byrd served as an epidemic intelligence service officer for the Centers for Disease Control, Office of Surveillance and Analysis, Atlanta, Ga., and was assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
		Byrd is active in the Sacramento community, serving since 1998 on the Sacramento County Children's Coalition, for which he prepared the 2000 Sacramento County Children's Report Card.
	www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /news/byrd_bio.html (331 words)

	Robert Payne Byrd
		Apparently Robert Payne and Catherine Byrd owned property in the town of Ironton, Iron County, MO as indicated by an Iron County land deed dated July 14, 1862.
		Robert Payne Byrd, Co. F, White's 9th and/or Ponder's 12th Missouri Infantry may have participated in the bloody Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas on December 7, 1862 -- his Confederate service records are not clear on this account.
		Robert Payne Byrd's answers in the examination document above are likely examples of what Michael Fellman, author of Inside War, the Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989), describes as "survival lies" that were used on both sides during the chaos in Missouri between 1861-1865.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /Gratiot/robertpaynebyrd.htm (2321 words)

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		Robert Byrd was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952, and won his first term to the U.S. Senate in 1958.
		Byrd fancies himself a staunch supporter of the Constitution, especially regarding the Constitutional authority to declare war and the War Powers Resolution.
		Ironically, during the buildup to the war, Byrd said, "We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=640 (445 words)

	USATODAY.com - At 87, Byrd faces re-election battle of his career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byrd is on track to become the longest serving senator in U.S. history in June 2006, surpassing Strom Thurmond; he's already the sitting member with the lengthiest tenure.
		Byrd has denounced President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, decried his tax cuts and budget policies and helped deadlock some of his judicial nominations.
		Byrd belonged to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, filibustered for 14 hours against the 1964 civil rights bill and gave an April 1968 floor speech implying that Martin Luther King Jr.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-05-22-byrd-fight-GOP_x.htm (1413 words)

	Robert Byrd - Wikiquote
		Robert Byrd (born November 20, 1917) is a West Virginia Democrat serving in the United States Senate.
		Robert Byrd is already recognized as an American icon.
		The final chapter in Robert Byrd's history is not likely to be written for some time, yet it is safe to say that he has set a standard as a Senator, as a legislative leader, and as a statesman that will stand among the best as long as there is a Senate.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Robert_Byrd (896 words)

	Byrd / Not A Byrd
		Byrds buffs may remember that when the band first visited England, they were served with an injunction by a British RandB combo called "The Birds." The Birds released four singles on Decca between 1964 and 1966 before breaking up.
		Joe Byrd was a student of "serious" music who dropped out of UCLA in the mid-'60s to organize "happenings." With the Field Hippies, he released The American Metaphysical Circus (Columbia, 1969), an album that fused rock with experimental electronic music.
		Byrd, born in 1917, had played in various square dance bands from his teens, and once he entered politics, he used his fiddling skills to attract attention and win votes.
	ebni.com /byrds/relnot.html (1566 words)

	Sen. Byrd praises Bush on nominee - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byrd as an eloquent and bombastic critic of the war in Iraq and Mr.
		Byrd embraced the same judicial philosophy as the president in his memoir, "Child of the Appalachian Coalfields," released earlier this summer.
		Byrd detailed the advice he has given presidents about the importance of naming conservatives and strict constructionists to the bench.
	www.washingtontimes.com /national/20050721-115719-6891r.htm (583 words)

	Spinsanity - The myth of Robert Byrd and the USS Abraham Lincoln
		The myth of Robert Byrd and the USS Abraham Lincoln
		In what can only be described as a collective hallucination, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) has been described by a wide range of journalists and commentators as having criticized the cost of President Bush's speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier returning from the Middle East.
		In what was the height of partisan hypocrisy, Byrd excoriated the nation's commander in chief for spending taxpayers' money to fly onto an aircraft carrier in a Viking jet to congratulate the troops and to declare an end to major fighting in the Iraqi war...
	www.spinsanity.org /columns/20030618.html (921 words)

	Robert Byrd
		A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd became a member of the West Virginia senate in 1951.
		After a period as a Democratic whip (1971-1977) Byrd was Majority Leader (1977-80 and 1987-88) and Minority Leader (1981-86) of the Senate.
		In the Senate, Robert Byrd has mounted a campaign against the version of the resolution already proposed by the Bush Administration.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbyrd.htm (3201 words)

	Byrd's Senate Rules Flip - CBS News
		Byrd's outrageous objection is doubly offensive because during his stint as majority leader, Byrd himself pushed through rules changes that benefited his party.
		When Democratic Senator Robert Byrd rose on the floor Tuesday to compare the tactics of his Republican colleagues in the battles over judicial nominees to those employed by Hitler in building the Reich, you knew two things.
		Senator Byrd is anticipating that, faced with continued obstructionism, Majority Leader Frist will force through a rules change that provides for up-or-down votes on any judicial nominee that emerges from the Judiciary Committee.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/04/opinion/main678158.shtml (864 words)

	CNN.com - 'Gods and Generals' -- and Congress - Feb. 21, 2003
		Robert Byrd, in costume, as a Confederate general.
		Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, George Allen, R-Virginia and Reps. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts and Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, as well as former Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, are history buffs and they were eager to leave the political stage, if only briefly, for the hot lights of Hollywood.
		Byrd appeared as a Confederate general, Allen a Confederate officer and Gramm, a Virginia delegate to the 1861 succession convention.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/21/movie.lawmakers (375 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Nor did the press corps use the opportunity to wallow in other Byrd racial lowlights, such as the 14 hours and 13 minutes he spent in an unsuccessful filibuster during the debate over the 1964 civil rights act, which he voted against along with 20 other Senate Democrats.
		Byrd identified himself as a former Kleagle and recommended a person to serve as state Klan coordinator.
		Byrd had been elected to the state senate, he wrote that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) with a Negro by my side.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110002825 (860 words)

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