Byrd to lie in Senate chamber where he served

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in history, often told his colleagues that he loved them, but he loved the Senate more. Fittingly, that's where Washington will bid him farewell on Thursday, when his body will lie in repose before returning home to West Virginia for a public funeral.

Byrd's final appearance on the Senate floor, where he became famous for soaring oratory and record-setting speeches, will be as historic as the senator himself. A senator's casket last lay in repose there in 1959, the year Byrd joined the chamber. He was the longest-serving member of Congress ever and was third in line to the presidency.

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From Washington to Byrd's beloved West Virginia, lawmakers, aides, law enforcement officials and journalists spent much of Tuesday on preparations for the event. The Senate was expected to approve a resolution to allow Byrd's casket to lie in repose within the chamber.

Byrd's journey to his final resting place near his wife, Erma, stretches from Washington to Charleston, W.Va., to Arlington, Va., for burial on Tuesday.

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but you saved me.

some class.

I'll never forget his grief over the death of Ted Kennedy. Sen. Byrd was in frail health himself at the time, and yet he was there, outside the capital, to honor his dear friend when the hearse drove by.

:cry: :patriot:

K&R

on all points :cry: