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Jackie Calmes: What does Joe Manchin want?

The man Sen. Joe Manchin III replaced as a senator from West Virginia, Robert C. Byrd, was so deft at securing federal funds — and non-coal jobs — for his needy constituents that the landlocked Mountain State boasts a Coast Guard maritime center. In 2005 when he dedicated a biotechnology science center, one of dozens of places in the state bearing his name, Byrd told the crowd, "You're looking at Big Daddy!"

Byrd made the most of the Democratic leadership posts he held for most of his 51 years in the Senate.

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