"Reporting from Washington — Robert Carlyle Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was often called the conscience of the Senate for his devotion to the system of constitutional checks and balances and the prerogatives of power, died early Monday. He was 92.
Byrd, who served longer and cast more congressional votes than any other member of Congress in U.S. history since taking office in January 1959, died at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va., a family spokesman said..."
Update: On his radio show today Huckabee Halftruth said he figured Sen,Byrd was right lobbying God to move the Pearly Gates to West Virginia. I betcha there's quite a few West Virginians who will say they're already there.
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