To: Members of the United States Senate Referring to Sen. Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, who voted against civil rights legislation and who holds the distinction of being the only senator in U.S. history to vote against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Christopher Dodd said he "cannot think of a single moment in this nation's 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country." This is the same Robert Byrd who once told Tony Snow on Fox News that there are "white...
