Sen. Robert Byrd Returns to the Senate Floor from Hospitalization
Email ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., made his first appearance on Capitol Hill since he was hospitalized for a “minor infection” in May. In a wheelchair, the 91-year-old Byrd came to the Senate floor just long enough to vote against a McCain/Levin amendment to strip $1.75 billion out of the Defense Authorization bill for the F-22 fighter jet.
In making his first vote in more than two months, Byrd defied the White House and Democratic leadership. The president had threatened to veto the defense bill if the F-22 money was not taken out.
But Byrd’s return is good news for the White House. If he made back for this vote, he may be around for a vote on health care, when he would be expected to support the president and his vote will be needed.
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$800B for stimulus pork and not $1 for maintenance of our high tech aircraft manufacturing work force. INSANITY REIGNS IN DC!!
Posted by: Byron | July 21, 2009, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
What average American could afford two months of hospital stay for a “minor infection?”
Posted by: aztec69 | July 21, 2009, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
How DISRESPECTFUL!!! You so glibly “speak ill” of this nearly 92 Year old man, who has dedicated His Entire Life to public service??? Have you NO Sense, or is it … NO Shame?
Posted by: bobj72 | July 21, 2009, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
Obama FOr JObs…..
Hundreds of Billions of dollars…jobs?…who knows?
1.75 billion “SAVED FROM WASTE” = 22,000 Americans will lose there jobs!
Yeah, he really cares!!!!!
Posted by: Mike_C | July 21, 2009, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Byrd just votes for all pork on principle. He’s like Ted Stevens- would vote for a gigantic bridge from the USA to China, stopping on the way in Chile, if it came to a vote
Posted by: peter | July 22, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
hospitalized for a “minor infection” in May? More like dementia.
Posted by: LongT | July 22, 2009, 10:27 am 10:27 am
with the so called pork just think of how many jobs senator bryd creadted for the citizens of west virginia pork equals jobs
Posted by: mike | July 22, 2009, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm