What’s next for Robert Byrd’s Senate seat?

Published June 28, 2010 4:00am ET



Robert Byrd, elected to Congress in 1952 and having served in the Senate longer than anyone ever, has died.

Having worked in West Virginia news for many years, I spent an inordinate amount of my life studying what happens next.

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