Word: byrds
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Before Kennedy's death, the two bills were being bottled up by a pair of Virginians: Judge Howard Smith, who had a hammerlock on civil rights in his House Rules Committee, and Harry Byrd, who had the tax cut cooped up in his Senate Finance Committee. Eventually, both bills almost certainly would have been pried loose from their caretakers. But it was Johnson's masterful dealing with Congress that got both bills moving swiftly and both through without casualty...
...bill, calling for an $11.5 billion cut, was moved out of the Senate Finance Committee for floor debate, courtesy Chairman Harry Byrd. Virginia's Byrd was-and is-immovably committed to the proposition that a tax slash is "neither sound nor constructive" until the federal deficit is reduced. But he promised Lyndon Johnson that he would let the bill go. So he stepped aside and gave floor-management responsibilities to Louisiana's Russell Long, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. Long talked long and hard on the Senate floor, but it seemed his talents might...
Senate Republicans supported Ribicoff's proposal strongly, by a count of 26-5, while 19 Democrats voted for the measure and 43 against it. In the final vote, three of its co-sponsors opposed the amendment: Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), who is the assistant majority leader, Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), and Frank Moss (D-Utah). Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), an announced candidate for the Presidency, voted for Ribicoff's proposal...
...finalists, all seniors, are: Donald A. Bloch, of Eliot House and Great Neck, N.Y.; W. Max Byrd, of Winthrop House and Arlington, Va.; Roger B. Hopkins, of Eliot House and Baltimore, Md.; Bancroft Littlefield, Jr., of Lowell House and Providence, R.I.; Joe A. Porter, of Eliot House and Madisonville...
...special credit is being offered as an amendment to the Administration's tax bill, which emerged from Sen. Harry Byrd's (D-Va.) Finance Committee last week. It does not appear in the House version of the bill, passed last fall...