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The senator did say, though, that he would maintain contact with the group. “I’ll be keeping very close touch with them, and we very well may be working together on campaigns or issues," he said.
Byrd appeared to be in good spirits last Thursday. Amid a hectic schedule of votes and interviews, the senator took time to attend his office’s Christmas party, during which he posed with various staffers and friends for photographs.
Although the atmosphere was festive in his office, it was much less so in the Senate, where conservatives were filibustering against a proposed five-cent-a-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax—delaying not only that, but consideration of a continuing budget resolution to keep the government running.
Byrd, both in the interview and in his December report to Virginians, said he is disappointed with Congress’
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