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Article: Congress off track, a Senate sage warns; Interview: On Iraq, one senator is as critical of his colleagues as he is of Bush.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- When Robert Byrd holds forth, usually alone, on the floor of the US Senate, all that's missing is the toga.
The eight-term Democrat from West Virginia is 21 months from passing the late Strom Thurmond as the longest serving US senator in history. But for all the bruising battles behind him, but he's not marking time. Instead, he's in the fight of his life.
This time, it's not for personal power or to pull in federal funds for his state, interrelated themes for much of his career. It's for the prerogatives of the Senate itself, which he says are being ...