There are four recessed chambers in the Upper Rotunda of the State Capitol building, but Byrd’s is the only statue located ...

CANARY IN A COALMINE — If West Virginia had a Mount Rushmore, the late Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in American history, would be on it. Even before he died in 2010 ...

Former Sen. Alan Simpson was 93 years old. He died on Friday while having issues recovering from a broken hip, an injury he ...

Mineta died in 2022. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd once said that Simpson was “one of the most accomplished legislative craftsman to ever to grace” the Capitol. He backed abortion ...

It cannot be used for discretionary spending. There's also what's known as the Byrd rule, named after former Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The rule allows anything determined not to have a ...