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Transcript: Sen. Robert Byrd Keeps Rolling
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- April 17, 2008
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ALISON STEWART
NPR The Bryant Park Project
04-17-2008
Sen. Robert Byrd Keeps Rolling
Host: ALISON STEWART
Time 7:00-8:00 AM
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ALISON STEWART, host:
So, the top of the show, we talked about Senate committees and seniority, but no one is as senior as West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He's 90 years old! He's now in a wheelchair after a recent fall, and he chairs the Appropriations Committee.
Yesterday, that committee met to hear the Pentagon's pitch for more war funding, and many wondered and watched that hearing to see if the senator was up to the task of running a meeting about such an important and contentious issue. Here he is from that hearing yesterday.
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