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The traditionalist: why the Senate's leading dove is Robert C. Byrd. (Below The Beltway).

American Prospect, The,  November, 2002  by Jones, Mary Lynn F.

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MANY LIBERALS WERE startled when one of the strongest Senate voices warning against invading Iraq turned out to be 84-year-old Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, a man slightly to the center-right of his party, a defense hawk and very much a traditionalist. But at the heart of Byrd's traditionalism is reverence for the U.S.

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Constitution. And in the days leading up to the Senate vote to give President Bush authority to take military action against Iraq, Byrd hammered away at two points: First, the Bush administration was trying to take away Congress' constitutional right to declare ...

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