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Iron Steve
Here is what he currently said, according to your quote:

"joining the KKK was "an extraordinarily foolish mistake[emph added, and note: mistake, singular]" that "has emerged throughout my life to haunt and embarass me, and has taught me in a very graphic way what one major mistake[emph added and note, one, singular] can do to one's life, career, and reputation."

So he apologizes for his membership in the Klan but what do the Klan-like acts and words of at least the next 25 years do to that apology? Its like Hitler apologizing for the one major mistake of Kristallnacht as a means for absolution for the Holocaust.

The Conscience of the Senate. Indeed.

From the US Senate website

• At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun fourteen hours and thirteen minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for fifty-seven working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the sixty-seven votes required at that time to end the debate.

At least we can see where the Dems get their filibuster chops from.