Updated: July 19, 2010 Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress ...

Updated: July 19, 2010 Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress ...

The process, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is intended to prevent the use of budget reconciliation to change policy rather than merely to raise and lower spending and revenues.

Normal cloture is but an infinite speck on the distant horizon when compared with a reconciliation bill,” the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., who authored his namesake rule, said in a 1989 ...

Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska was the subject of violent threats that also targeted Sen.Ted Cruz of Texas, federal authorities said Monday.

Under the so-called Byrd rule, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and applied by the Senate’s parliamentarian, Congress cannot use the budget reconciliation mechanism to ...

Former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is set to report to federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving an 11-year sentence for s and acting as an agent of Egypt. The New Jersey Democrat has been mocked ...

The CIA has made public 54 declassified documents related to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. This release on Thursday, June 12, totaling 1,450 pages of previously unseen material ...

Jane Raybould, the Nebraska lawmaker who fought cancer in 2024 and alienated progressives this year as she sought to limit minimum wage increases, won't seek a second term next year.

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the ...