Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political pressure, they are usually unable to make wise budget decisions because of the difficulty of estimating the relative importance of various appropriations. Each year a number of appropriations bills are passed, and the total expenditure is not entirely clear. Among the many proposals to correct this situation, Senator Byrd's two bills offer the best solution--an omnibus bill for a whole year's appropriations and an item veto...
...many years Finance Committee Chairman Harry Byrd has been as staunch a friend as reciprocal trade has had. Now, after hearing from
Virginia's expanding textile industry, Democrat Byrd says he may support some amendments. Utah Republican Wallace Bennett is worried about his State's lead and zinc industries; Oklahoma Democrat Robert Kerr, Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson are looking over their shoulders at the oilmen back home...
Bridges in the Rooms. While Byrd effectively operated as the floor manager against the tax cut (and Delaware's Republican Senator John Williams as the G.O.P.'s most persistent orator). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges ran the campaign in the cloakroom. Operator Bridges, an expert in dispensing political favors, collected some of his many I.O.U.s to keep Republicans in line. Some farm Senators, e.g., Idaho's Herman Welker, North Dakota's Milton Young and South Dakota's Francis Case, all up for re-election next year, seemed to be wavering toward...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...