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Robert Byrd, almost 91, will quit powerful Senate chairmanship

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the senior member of the Senate, agreed Friday to relinquish his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee, as Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama prepare to grapple with the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Byrd, who....

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