ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-18-09 05:13 PM
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91-year-old Sen. Byrd hospitalized Updated at 5:13 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_go_co/us_byrd
WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91 and the longest-serving senator in history, was hospitalized last Friday with a temperature spike evidently caused by a minor infection, his office announced Monday.
Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, "is being treated with antibiotics, responding well and is expected to be released from the hospital in a few days," the office said in a statement.
Byrd has been in Congress since 1952 and was first elected to the Senate six years later.
He has been plagued by health problems in recent years, uses a wheelchair and sometimes appears frail. He has been hospitalized several times.
He stepped down as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee last November, but not before first chastising party leaders whom he said had been discussing his removal.
In the statement, Byrd's office said the senator was hospitalized late Friday afternoon as a "precautionary measure." It said his doctors attributed the temperature to a minor infection.
Gee, what if Byrd was a Republican... Byrd is one of those people at the frontier of what they're willing to accept, so long as he's a Democrat. Still, all that silly Klan business pales in comparison to his vote on CREDIT CARD LEGISLATION:
hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-18-09 05:14 PM
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1. After he voted with the credit card companies last week, I'm
wondering if he is really controlling his votes any more. Best wishes to him, but it's time to retire.
