Byrd’s Death Complicates Democrats’ Strategy The New York Times reports: “The death of Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia threw into doubt the ability of Democrats to win approval this week of a financial regulation bill and underscored how the smallest changes in the size and composition of their Congressional majority have complicated their efforts to pass ambitious legislation over near-unanimous Republican opposition…’We are down a vote,’ said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat. ‘We have got some work to do.'”
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