Robert Byrd

==Links==
* West Virginia
===Web===
* http://www.gopsenators.com/senator/byrdwatchnoside.aspx
==Insights==
===Porker of the Month, June, 2006, Sen. Robert Byrd ===
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Senator Robert Byrd
(D-W.Va.) Porker of the Month for his legacy as the "King of
Pork," as he became the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history
this month. Sen. Byrd has sat on the Appropriations Committee
since 1959, his first year in the Senate. Since 1991, West
Virginia has received $2.95 billion in pork, $1.2 billion allocated in
the Senate. The state has ranked among the top four in CAGW's
pork per capita every year since 2001 and became the first state to
reap $1 billion in parochial projects in 1999, earning Sen. Byrd the
CAGW-bestowed moniker, "King of Pork." Despite the
senator's beneficence, justified on the premise of his
state's poor economy, decades of raiding the federal Treasury
have failed to improve the lot of West Virginians, who now suffer from
the third-lowest personal income per capita in the country. For
his legacy of narcissism and waste, CAGW names the "King of
Pork," Sen. Robert Byrd, Porker of the Month for June
2006. Read more about the Porker of the Month.
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=bk-tk_AIMDiVO_tnO17CJA
Read CAGW's "Byrd Droppings," which chronicles 33 projects
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=EwFMAeYHwNvhfyA3NUz7jA..
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