DOSSIER: CLS-112 · SUBJECT: Robert C. Byrd · CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC
METHODOLOGY: SYMMETRIC · STATUS: ACTIVE
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112. Robert C. Byrd (D)C- 5.8 [Personnel File Pending]

U.S. Senator WV 1959-2010 (51 years — longest-serving Senator in U.S. history) · U.S. Representative WV-6 1953-1959 · Senate Majority Leader 1977-1981, 1987-1989 · Senate President pro tempore 1989-1995, 2001-2003, 2007-2010 · deceased 28 Jun 2010
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Strengths: M01 + M12 Score 9 institutional Senate decorum master; M14 substantive parliamentary mastery; M10 sustained WV constituent advocacy (federal projects). Drag: M03 + M05 — 1940s-1950s Ku Klux Klan membership (renounced 1950s; sustained later regret); 2002 Iraq War vote opposition (M07 + M02 Score 5-6 dissent at career-cost level).

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