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Transcript: Senator Robert Byrd Addresses Colleagues About Civility
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- December 24, 1995
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A clip from a speech delivered last week by West Virginia Senator Robert
Byrd on the floor of the Senate about civility, along with a clip
from Jimmy Stewart's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
LIANE HANSEN, Host: We turn now to another voice in the news last
week. It came during a day of raucous debate over the budget impasse.
But, it had less to do with politics than politeness. It was heard
on the floor of the Senate. The speaker was one of the senior statesmen
on Capitol Hill, and as the senator from West Virginia has often done
in the past, Robert Byrd drove home his points with quotations from
philosophers, statesmen and even the Apostle ...