WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Monday became the longest serving senator in history, passing the record held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Byrd, a Democrat from ...

Leave it to black folk to tell it like it is, while exercising some restraint, and we love it. CBC Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) released a statement on the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd of ...

The news broke this morning that the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, died at age 92. As the tributes pour in, there are also some people thinking that ...

An agreement with Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia salvaged a key piece of President Biden’s agenda. But Democrats still have a few crucial steps to take before it becomes law. By Emily ...

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West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd died Monday at 92. He was an outspoken proponent of legislative power and served in the Senate for 51 years, longer than anyone else in American history. (For more on ...

Byrd's death followed less than a year after the passing of venerable Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a nationally recognizable figure who had been a most vociferous spokesman for liberal causes for years. In ...

Hours before voting to clear the way for health care reform in the Senate, Republican Senator Tom Coburn said on the floor, "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote ...

A bluegrass album featuring legendary lawmaker Robert Byrd, who died earlier this week at 92, will be reissued by a Virginia record label. Byrd, a one-time Klansman from West Virginia who became the ...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a fall at his home, his spokesman said. Byrd, 90, the Democratic chairman of the ...