Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

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1991. Byrd also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. 3.

From 1989 to 2010 he served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Democratic Party had a majority and as President pro tempore emeritus during periods of Republican majority beginning in 2001. A member of the Democratic Party Byrd served as a U. Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.