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Byrd's chairmanship seems safe despite age
At the age of 90, Sen. Robert Byrd is increasingly frail. He usually relies on a script. And he's taken to a wheelchair since a recent fall and two stints in the hospital. But the longest-winded -serving senator in history had just two words Wednesday when a reporter asked him what he had to say to colleagues and staff aides whispering that maybe he's not up to chairing the powerful Appropriations Committee: ''Shut up!''
There are still things in West Virginia that haven't been named for Senator Byrd ...

Posted by: Fred 2008-04-18
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=237014