Transcript: Interview: Steve Rutledge discusses Senator Robert Byrd's speech to the Senate about a lesson from Roman history

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Interview: Steve Rutledge discusses Senator Robert Byrd's speech to the Senate about a lesson from Roman history

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And now a lesson in the ideal of democracy from 85-year-old Senator Robert Byrd. During the debate yesterday on the Homeland Security Act, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, a staunch opponent of the measure, reminded his colleagues of a largely forgotten episode in Roman history. A Roman senator named Helvidius Priscus was, as Senator Byrd put it, `at cross-purposes' with the emperor, Vespasian. One day, the emperor tried to stop Priscus from entering the Senate, `but ...

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