Senator Robert Byrd on Congressional Service

On November 18 Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) became the longest serving Member of Congress having served in the House since 1953 and the Senate since 1958. He spoke briefly in the Senate about this milestone.
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[@evanshiong3557]

Crazy how at that point there was still a Senator that served in the 50s. Robert Byrd became the earliest-serving living senator upon George Smothers’ death in January 2007.

[@martinezimf]

He has apologized for his past history as a young man and has continuously been against our presence in the Middle East as well as in Pakistan/Afghanistan. People outside this country who follow him carefully and watch his his foreign policy speeches carefully love him. They are far more aware and sensitive to that than they are anything else. This has far more impact on them than anything else.

[@covfefe1787]

once a racist always a racist he let it go for a political career but he died because the person he once disposed a black man became president of the United States

[@frankpaya690]

Oh just listen to the partisan phony- baloney, you know damn well if he were a "Republican" hypocrites like Chris Wallace would be asking him to condemn white supremacy- and this is somebody who really has the history as a white supremacist, big time! He never "changed", he's played politics when he's been in front of a microphone but couldn't help himself on at least one occasion in the early 2000s where he's on video using the n word at least twice. What's most appalling is how people's viewpoints are either positive or negative about an individual, based solely behind what the press keeps saying about them, as to whether or not they are "good" or "bad".

[@donaldmelvin4348]

@@covfefe1787 You're responding to a 12 year old comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also look up Jesse Helms and John Tower

[@thatblack_kid1651]

​@@covfefe1787 stupid man ever

[@yinghuix3373]

Ten months after he got to see his 11th president get inaugurated.

[@hzq-yg8bj]

2 years Into his NINTH senate term one of two to get to Nine

[@frankpaya690]

Biden with his documented past and now being president is the best evidence that there could be a serious white supremacy problem within America today.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@frankpaya690 quiet nazi

[@darthmader057mmm6]

@@jadedheartsz quiet commie

[@alanbourbeau24]

I bet by now Senator Robert Byrd is in Heaven now and looking down at what's going on with Republican and Democratic senators and Congress members and see how horrible their behavior is. And I bet he's deeply disappointed in their behavior as well.

[@r3dical1]

TRUTH ABOUT Cathy Obrian

[@JacobSnell1998]

Robert Byrd was a good man and a good Senator.

[@TheReboundingWorld]

"As fire (heat) is the direct cause of cooking, so knowledge and not any other form of discipline, is the direct cause of liberation; for liberation cannot be attained without knowledge...Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness." - Roy Davis: "The Path of Soul Liberation"

[@frankpaya690]

Could you paraphrase that so us lay people can understand what that means better?

[@honkhonkler7732]

I heard this guy had some serious filibustering skills lmao.

[@X23Unit]

God bless you Robert Byrd

[@alwest4472]

He needed it

[@knoxwilliams4994]

He was a segerationist Senator who opposed Civil Rights while in the Senate in the 60s. Also... why the hell was 92 year old a Senator? This guy is a racist joke.

[@ካ.ደ.መ.Z]

May God send you to hell you piece of shit

[@frankpaya690]

@@knoxwilliams4994 just look at what we have in the White House today as president, Biden with his documented past and now being "president" is the best evidence, that there just might actually be- a serious white supremacy problem- within America today.

[@psscudder]

This guy was a flippin' joke!

[@COULDbWORSE1]

Another reason I couldn't be a politician. I'd be falling asleep hearing this boring garbage all day.

[@daverice5649]

At 1:20 when I read that, but I still want to see the speech. Funny

[@mmjhcb]

His legacy (besides the KKK) is Feinstein, Fedderman, and of course, Joey himself. Thanks, Bobby.

[@jansharp6675]

Only racing Robert Byrd changed his tactics because he knew that the American people would not stand for it no more how many black people's life did this man destroy in their property

[@Quaila]

Like wow thanks for approving funds for an mlk monument this is so much cooler than having our civil rights protected 🙄

[@michaelrainbow4203]

Trance Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien

[@megagagnon1]

ok, so is that more toxic than a $787 billion dollar bailout? methinks not, otherwise racism is berry berry expensive

[@MOUNTAINEER1976]

Term limits!!!!