so tonight, i want to play this clip of the late senator robert byrd., to me, there are in my business some things that are said that are very impressionable. there are things that happen in this business of covering the news and being involved that really get to you. this voice of reason cuts right to the heart of this issue. i think it's -- this is a very important reference heading into next week's debate. >> to contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. on this february day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every american on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war, and yet, this chamber is for the most part ominously, ominously dreadfully silent. you can hear a pin drop. listen. you can hear a pin drop. there is no debate. there's no discussion. there's no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. there's nothing. we stand passively mute in the united states senate today, paralyzed by our own uncertainty, seemingly stunned by the sheer turmoil of events. only o

robert byrd in their own party most of. all stay chamberpot so you will find out who's won the right dose for twenty twenty lympics months how much more coming up in just a moment. fans of the shocked your football club and kind of gonda kazakhstan believe that a certain special ritual help them achieve victory against the world famous scottish team celtic this ritual was sacrificing his sheep at the stadium as someone who lived in kazakhstan for two years i know there's a real meat eating country with deeply rooted traditions in life stock racing so this news is unusual but maybe it's not completely bizarre for the culture of course defenders of animal rights who don't seem to realize that the sheep would be turned into people of the next few days anyways demanded that you a full officials punish the shock to a club for the actions of individual fans this is the same logic as if someone wearing a sexy tim kirby t. shirt went around robbing liquor stores i am not responsible for the actions of people like this program and i

robert byrd an r.t. . now moving on to golf where american jim furyk equalled the p.g.a. tour record by carving a super but second round of fifty nine at the b.m.w. championship in illinois the forty three year old started the day on the back nine and batted for his opening five holes before shooting an eagle on the fifteenth a crack of a shot hundred fifty yards oh his only blip came on the fifth hole which by the gate but he also carded eleven birdies overall to become only the sixth man to break sixty with a twelve under par round of fifty nine and he's the only golfer to do it with a bogey on his score caught. staying with golf as england simon brown won the russian seedier open by two strokes at a rainy moscow country club president but apple has more. twenty thirteen has become a significant year for gulf infuses in russia the european tour returned to the country after a five year absence along with the senior tour which was hosted at the moscow country club russia's the first eighteen hole golf course ian woosnam who captained europe to write a cup glory in two th

this book is still -- it starts with robert byrd and ends with robert byrd.dn't see any other way. he brings focus to the institution in the 1980s. he was interested in the majority leader's power to arrest senators. they were hiding. they didn't want to make a quorum during filibuster. he called me in one day and said suppose you can give me a piece on history on senators arresting senator. he liked it and gave a floor speech. some other questions on other matters of the senate procedure. and before the 1980 was out, -- were out, he had delivered 100 speeches like that. then they were published during the buy sen tential of the senate as a very large history of the senate. so he'll be remembered for that, for sure. i think also for the conscious. he developed he evolved over the course of his career, and to remarkable senate career. c-span: did he ever get mad at you? >> guest: umm, he -- one time i went to him with a great idea for, you know, a book, and he might want to work on. he looked at me and dr. baker, that could be your book! that's not going to be

senate unanimously took that position in 199 when it passed a resolution sponsored by then-senator robert byrd of west virginia and current obama defense secretary chuck hagel which said the united states should not ratify the kyoto treaty unless specific standards were agreed upon to limit emissions by developing countries. the byrd-hagel pins pl was commonsense in 1997 and remains so today. for that reason, i'll be introducing legislation that would delay the implementation of the new source rules for coal plants unless other countries that account for 80% of the total nonu.s.a. carbon dioxide emissions standards enact those standards so we are not disadvantaging our workers, our jobs, our economy, our seniors, our folks who have manufacturing jobs in small businesses. the american people want us to work together. they realy do. we hear that when we're out. it's -- republicans, democrats, inexcellents, nonparties, old, young, educated, less educated, blue collar, white collar, they want us to work together. they want commonsense policies. they want an energy policy that creates jobs, that in