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The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.24.2011

The Relentless Conservative

How long will the Democrats continue their absurd charade? All the while claiming Republicans are racist, meanwhile the Democrats are the party with an equally bad history.

Robert Byrd's Legacy Gets Revisited As Staff Clear Out His Office

The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011

By law, aides have just two months to close the office of a senator who resigns or dies in office. This week Byrd's aides received instructions from t...

Robert Byrd Memorialized In West Virginia

AP | STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 05.25.2011

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — They came by the thousands to pay their respects to U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, and they kept trickling in past midnight and i...

Robert Byrd Memorial: Late Senator To Lie In Repose In U.S. Senate (PHOTOS)

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The Senate opened its doors for a final time Thursday for Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginian of humble origins who became a Senate ...

Robert Byrd Death Reactions: Washington Responds To Passing Of Longest-Serving Senator

Posted 05.25.2011

Washington is reacting to the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), the longest serving Senator in U.S. history. Byrd's half-century Senate legacy has...

Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.

Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving Senator In Congressional History, Honored (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history Wednesday, a milestone to be marked ...

Senator Byrd Returns To Senate

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, returned to the chamber Tuesday after being absent for more than two months du...

Robert Byrd Released After Month-Long Hospital Stay

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Legislative Term Limits

Duncan Quirk | Posted 05.25.2011

Duncan Quirk

As the world ushered in the age of the Obama Administration, the two longest serving Senators, Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd, were taken away from the I...

Byrd Stepping Down As Appropriations Chair

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in history, is stepping down from his cherished post as chairman of the Senate Approp...