Sen. Byrd scholarship cut from federal budget - Jared Hunt, Charleston Daily Mail

A long-standing scholarship program named in honor of U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd was quietly whittled out of the federal budget earlier this year, apparently because the late senator was no longer around to fight for it. The Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship was eliminated last month as part of budget negotiations between the White House and Congress. Byrd, D-W.Va., founded the program, which provides students with an annual merit-based scholarship, in 1985 and fought hard to expand and protect it over the next 25 years. When it began, the scholarship provided a one-time, $1,500 grant to selected high school seniors across the country.