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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 890574" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>"Why old people say dumb things is still mind numbing! Why McLame keeps being re-elected to office at his age is beyond stupid. This old fart made an ash out of himself on the senate floor with this speech."</p><p></p><p><strong>Robert Carlyle Byrd</strong> (born <strong>Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.</strong>; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" target="_blank">United States Senator</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" target="_blank">West Virginia</a>.</p><p> A member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">Democratic Party</a>, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010.</p><p> He was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_longevity_of_service" target="_blank">longest-serving senator</a> and the longest-serving member in the history of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" target="_blank">United States Congress</a>.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-TheHill_longevity-2" target="_blank">[3]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-news.aol.com-3" target="_blank">[4]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-111809_CNN_Byrd-4" target="_blank">[5]</a>[/SUP]</p><p>From 1989 to 2010 he served as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate" target="_blank">President pro tempore of the United States Senate</a> when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-CONG_BIO-5" target="_blank">[6]</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-CONG_BIO-5" target="_blank"></a>[/SUP] As President pro tempore, he was third in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession" target="_blank">line of presidential succession</a>, behind the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">Vice President</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" target="_blank">Speaker of the House of Representatives</a>. </p><p>He filibustered against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Civil_Rights_Act" target="_blank">1964 Civil Rights Act</a>.</p><p> He was a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a> in the 1940s.</p><p>Robert Byrd, delivered on the floor of the Senate on July 19, 2007. </p><p>Profoundly outraged, the 89-year-old senator rose to the floor to squarely take up the issue of illegal dog fighting rings in the USA. " Two dogs are placed in a pit and turned loose -- turned loose -- against each other. How inhuman, how cannibalistic, how sadistic.</p><p>The brutality goes on until one of the poor dogs is seriously injured or killed. So the poor dog died -- died. The dog died."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 890574, member: 12952"] "Why old people say dumb things is still mind numbing! Why McLame keeps being re-elected to office at his age is beyond stupid. This old fart made an ash out of himself on the senate floor with this speech." [B]Robert Carlyle Byrd[/B] (born [B]Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.[/B]; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate"]United States Senator[/URL] from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia"]West Virginia[/URL]. A member of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29"]Democratic Party[/URL], Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_longevity_of_service"]longest-serving senator[/URL] and the longest-serving member in the history of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress"]United States Congress[/URL].[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-TheHill_longevity-2"][3][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-news.aol.com-3"][4][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-111809_CNN_Byrd-4"][5][/URL][/SUP] From 1989 to 2010 he served as the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate"]President pro tempore of the United States Senate[/URL] when the Democratic Party had a majority, and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#cite_note-CONG_BIO-5"][6] [/URL][/SUP] As President pro tempore, he was third in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession"]line of presidential succession[/URL], behind the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States"]Vice President[/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives"]Speaker of the House of Representatives[/URL]. He filibustered against the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Civil_Rights_Act"]1964 Civil Rights Act[/URL]. He was a member of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan"]Ku Klux Klan[/URL] in the 1940s. Robert Byrd, delivered on the floor of the Senate on July 19, 2007. Profoundly outraged, the 89-year-old senator rose to the floor to squarely take up the issue of illegal dog fighting rings in the USA. " Two dogs are placed in a pit and turned loose -- turned loose -- against each other. How inhuman, how cannibalistic, how sadistic. The brutality goes on until one of the poor dogs is seriously injured or killed. So the poor dog died -- died. The dog died." [/QUOTE]
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