Sen. Robert Byrd will lie in repose in Senate chamber
The body of Sen. Robert Byrd, DW.Va., will lie in repose in the Senate chamber the day before he is to be buried in West Virginia, officials said Tuesday.
Senator Robert Byrd, a personification of the venerable chamber in which he served, died aged 92, closing a tumultuous American political chapter which spanned the civil rights movement, and divisive wars in Vietnam and Iraq.