Big up Mr. Byrd

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Byrd will voluntarily give up chairmanship

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David Rogers, John Bresnahan David Rogers, John Bresnahan – Fri Nov 7, 2:03 pm ET
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Senate legend Robert Byrd, approaching 91 this month and hailing a “new day in Washington,” said he would voluntarily give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee with the new Congress.
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven,” said Byrd, who had fended off earlier challenges this past spring and summer. “Those Biblical words from Ecclesiastes 3:1 express my feelings about this particular time in my life.
“I have been privileged to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee for 50 years and to have chaired the committee for ten years, during a time of enormous change in our great country, both culturally and politically,” Byrd continued in a statement released by his office. “I have learned that nothing is quite so permanent as change. It is simply a part of living and should not be feared.”
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who is 84, will take over for Byrd on the powerful panel, which oversees hundreds of billions of dollars annually in federal spending. Byrd will officially hand off the gavel on Jan. 6, 2009.

[Islandman]

Big up is way too much of a compliment for the Senator.

Goodbye Mr. Exalted Cyclops of the Klu Klux Klan . Goodbye Mr King of the pork barrell spending.

Goodbye and good riddance.

So the breddah who is taking over from this 91 year old fossil is 84?

[MdmeX]

Senate legend Robert Byrd, approaching 91 this month and hailing a “new day in Washington,” said he would voluntarily give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee with the new Congress.
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven,” said Byrd, who had fended off earlier challenges this past spring and summer. “Those Biblical words from Ecclesiastes 3:1 express my feelings about this particular time in my life.

My feelings is that Byrd should have FLEW to his NEST long damn time - 91. Inouye at age 84 should be going out too. How effective are these chaps, what contribution them really making. Need younger and brighter minds!