Robert Byrd, Longtime Democratic Senator, Dies At 92 -- L.A. Times
The West Virginia lawmaker, who served longer than any member of Congress in U.S. history, was part of a postwar generation of "Old Bulls" who ran Congress for decades.
Reporting from Washington — Robert Carlyle Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was often called this generation's conscience of the Senate for his devotion to the system of constitutional checks and balances and the prerogatives of power, died Monday. He was 92.
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ASIA
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