Robert Byrd

"Today, I weep for my country" "Today, I weep for my country"

The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd on the Senate floor on March 19, 2003, just prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- and John McCain's response.
  • Sen. Byrd falls, taken to hospital

    The Senate's oldest member has had health troubles recently, but is reportedly uninjured after a spill
  • How Congress can end the war without hurting the troops

    Sen. Reid and I are introducing a bill that would require President Bush to begin redeployment and effectively end our military mission in Iraq by March 31, 2008.
  • What Hillary Clinton should have known

    The presidential candidate claims that if she knew then what she knows now, she wouldn't have voted for war. But others knew.
  • Byrd vs. Bush

    Sen. Robert Byrd blasts fellow senators for believing "the garbage that was being spewed out by the administration" on Iraq, and thanks the airline passengers who "died to save this Capitol, my life and my staff."
  • Byrd wants healthcare bill to honor Kennedy

    The West Virginian says his "heart and soul weeps" over his friend's death, as he wept for Kennedy last year
  • Byrd says Obama administration grabbing too much power

    In a letter to the president, the veteran senator says new White House offices "can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances."
  • Ted Kennedy suffers convulsions at luncheon

    President Obama praises stricken senator.
  • Byrd endorses Obama

    The long-serving senator from West Virginia announces that he'll cast his superdelegate vote for Obama.
  • Why we fight?

    The defense secretary says he doesn't know whether the use-of-force authorization for Iraq covers the war the United States is fighting today.
  • Meanwhile, a word about impeachment

    Robert Byrd wants the president to remember that the Senate "can send you home."
  • A third Democrat for Alito

    As progressives cling to hope for a filibuster, the AP says Robert Byrd will vote to confirm Bush's nominee.
  • "Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled"

    In an impassioned speech, Sen. Byrd voices his shock and dismay over the Bush administration's practice of spying on U.S. citizens.
  • Terrorist threat or political hype?

    Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
  • Bush's do-nothing plan for airline security

    When it comes to protecting passenger jets from a terrorist's shoulder-launched missile, the White House is taking a bargain-basement approach.
  • A haunting silence

    While the White House risks the horrors of war, the Senate is paralyzed, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
  • When animals give back

    Whether you're Sen. Robert Byrd or Eminem, it's the convoluted intention that counts, not the offensive slur. Plus: The KKK and Imelda on beauty.
  • Pimps without portfolio

    Even after the impeachment debacle revealed just how out of touch they are, the Washington media elite are still trying to hustle the American people.
  • Moral majority

    The American people acquitted Clinton long ago.
  • Moral majority

    The American people acquitted Clinton long ago.
  • Endgame?

    Republicans ratchet up the rhetoric, while looking for a way out.

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