...Scott Brown for Kennedy in Massachusetts, Mark Begich for Alaska's Ted Stevens, West Virginia's Joe Manchin for Robert Byrd. One cycle earlier, the venerable South Carolinian Fritz Hollings, of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing...
...tough territory. Raleigh County was home base for Sen. Robert Byrd, then no friend of the Kennedys, and the headquarters...Senate, gaining and then losing the whip's job to Robert Byrd, and challenged for the presidency, he never seemed...
...seeking to soothe the environmental worries of the Europeans by promising to spend more to combat climate change. Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, proposed Friday to spend nearly $5 billion over the next decade to...
...week when Ted Stevens of Alaska, newly indicted for accepting unreported favors from an oilman friend, walked over to Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who uses a wheelchair because of age and illness, in search of support and consolation. Stevens...
...to death," added White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. The main senator behind the delay is West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman and self-appointed guardian of congressional prerogatives. Byrd has...
...foundation by calling 800-995-3766 or by consulting its Web site at jeromefdn.org. Questions should be address to Robert Byrd. Jami Rassmussen, a Pequot Lakes High School graduate, played Sagot in Bemidji State University's production of...
...with a new strategy, could help us to meet our defense policy goals." He was quickly brought down to earth. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia grilled him aggressively on how the Navy had used a $1 billion appropriation Congress had approved...
...salmonella bacteria and Norwalk-like viruses. Byrd chides lack of testimony from Ridge WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Robert Byrd chastised the Bush administration Tuesday for refusing to let Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge testify to Congress...
...Mosul. The U.S. Congress is, of course, aware of these plans, including administration critics Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd. Democratic candidate John Kerry (Heinz Ketchup) even has a financial interest in this huge project. Anybody who...
...skin." Democrats want preferences that judge according to skin color and not content of their character. Democrat Robert Byrd was a longtime KKK member and Democrats call him the "conscience of the Senate." Their conscience maybe, not mine...
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