Death and taxes kept the effort to reform the nation's financial industry regulations from passage last week as the unexpected exit of the longest serving U.S. senator confused and delayed the bill's supporters.
Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) was first elected to the Senate in 1958. He died on June 28 at 92.
Despite his age, Byrd's death caught many other Senators by surprise. Media outlets reported that his office kept his physical condition a closely held secret, though he had been seen steadily weakening, for example, by abandoning his iconic cane in favor of a wheelchair.
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