WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, voluntarily gave up his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee Friday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is moving to ease 90-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., out of a top Senate leadership position, sources say.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The oldest United States senator, Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., 90, isn't letting his age or his use of a wheelchair keep him from his job as appropriations chairman.
WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) -- Aides to Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., say the 90-year-old lawmaker has no intention of stepping down as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., returned to a Washington hospital Wednesday after suffering an adverse reaction to antibiotics he was taking, his staff said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., will return to Capitol Hill next week after being hospitalized because of a back injury, his spokesman said.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- A deadline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq remained in the Senate version of a war-spending bill after senators rejected a Republican amendment Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- With just a few days before the November election, U.S. Senate Democrats are far ahead of Republicans in contributing to their own party.
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- Former civil rights opponent turned Iraq War critic, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., will soon be the longest serving senator in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved $100 million in additional funding for programs to treat and prevent AIDS in developing countries as part of the supplemental appropriations bill, but this amount fell far short of the $700 million
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