Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children--his special target...
...this sort of personal control of city operations by men not responsible to the people whose lives they influence that backers of an automatic payment hoped to eliminate. But the opposition was too strong on this point and home rule strategists were forced to compromise. Byrd and Natcher will retain their power. The Capitol, and not the District Building, will continue to be Washington's city hall--and Congress will inevitably continue to spend valuable time on local matters...
...rent-subsidy section came under some scathing criticism; Virginia's Harry Byrd, even before the debate began, denounced the plan as "renti-care." A Republican-backed amendment that would have killed the provision was defeated by a 47 to 40 Senate vote. But that count sounded closer than it actually was: Democratic leaders had at least another half-dozen votes in hand, if needed...
...crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds of the maximum retirement benefits. Byrd argued that something had to be done for workers in the "twilight zone," estimated that of 3,500,000 Americans now eligible to retire at 60, some...
...largely because U.S. business has increased productivity faster than U.S. labor has pushed up wage costs-with the result that prices have held relatively stable. But even economic conservatives have lately accepted the idea of using deficits to stimulate the economy in slack years. Sighs Virginia Senator Harry Byrd: "Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a platform that pledged to cut governmental expenditures by 25%. Nobody would dare run on such a platform today...