Now the 10-foot bronze Byrd statue is literally one of the last Democrats standing in the state. In recent years, Byrd’s name has come off a few buildings, including a manufacturing institute at ...

Senators will finally deal with the historic and controversial impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It could be ...

This later point is known as the Byrd Rule, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V. It was formally adopted in the Congressional Budget Act of 1990 in order to prevent reconciliation bills ...

Named for Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, who represented West Virginia for 51 years, this rule was adopted in 1985 to prevent lawmakers from putting non-budgetary proposals on the easier path to ...

These tables list the top donors to candidates in the 1989 - 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual ...

He has served 40 years, 19 days, and counting. The longest-serving senator was Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) who served from Jan. 3, 1959, to June 28, 2010, for a total of 51 years, 5 months, 26 days.

Richard Russell (D-GA), has a Senate office building named for him. Then there is Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia. Not only was Byrd a member of the Ku Klux Klan, rising to the ...

Robert Byrd was known for his old-fashioned courtliness ... becoming the longest-serving member of either house in U.S. history. As a senator, he had two overriding missions: preserving the ...