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“I should have some type of Congressional Medal of Honor for that.”—Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), referring to his past tenure as chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the District, at an Appropriations Committee markup session last Thursday. The committee later completed the “thankless task,” according to Byrd, of drafting the District’s budget for fiscal year 2000.