Byrd Center for Legislative Studies
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Dr. Ray Smock, Director of the Byrd Center is interviewed by Brian Lamb. (Pictured at right: Brian Lamb and Ray Smock.) Watch the one hour program at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Video/?ProgramID=1258   

The Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Inc. is a private, nonpartisan and nonprofit educational organization administered by the Congressional Education Foundation with facilities on the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The mission of the Center is to help foster a better understanding of the United States Congress, the Constitution and representative democracy both historically and in a contemporary setting. The Center has an archival section that contains the papers of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd and other political collections.

The Byrd Center for Legislative Studies is an active participant in a national consortium of related centers throughout the United States, the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress.
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