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Robert Byrd will lie in repose on Senate floor
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 29, 2010 02:09pm |
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| Author | ERIKA LOVLEY |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Senate will come to a halt Thursday for a six-hour period while Senator Robert C. Byrd lies in repose in a closed casket on the chamber floor.
The Senate galleries will remain open to the public during what promises to be a somber ceremony in the upper chamber, but the Senate will not be in session.
Senators will be asked to arrive on the floor in time for Senate Chaplain Barry Black to give a prayer at 10:30 a.m. Black’s office said he is currently in the midst of writing the prayer.
Byrd, the longest-serving member in history, will be the first granted the honor of lying in repose since Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1957. Lying in repose is different from lying in state under the Capitol Rotunda — an honor given to 30 other Americans over the past 160 years. |
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