Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dodd's bill (S-745) and other similar measures have been assigned to Sen. Harry Byrd's (D-Va.) Finance Committee. Byrd has not yet scheduled hearings on any of them, and it is known that he is generally suspicious of exemption plans...
...Everyone knew that the effort did not have a chance; in the event, it cost a month of talkfest before it was handily defeated. Next, following the lead of President Kennedy, the liberals backed a plan to pack the Finance Committee headed by Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry Byrd. The idea was that a Finance Committee increased by two liberals would help in the passage of Kennedy's tax and medicare programs. Kennedy himself, told he could not win, tried to call his followers off. But the Senate liberals paid no heed, insisted on bringing...
Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and longtime foe of budget deficits, pushed a bulging manila folder toward a visitor. "Now here are the letters about the tax cut from just one mail," said Byrd. "There are 60 of them there, and not one that...
...Secretary of the Treasury, Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, "the foremost champion of sound fiscal policy...
...first probings proved promising, so Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quietly spread the word that he would seek a favorable vote in the Democratic steering committee, which makes committee assignments. At this point, Byrd, who steadfastly opposes medicare and the Kennedy tax program, let conservative Senators know that he considered the packing plan a personal affront. One of his calls went to his good friend Richard Russell of Georgia, who predictably viewed the plan as an outright assault upon the traditions of the Senate and upon his Southern colleague. On such issues, Russell can usually deliver the entire Southern conservative...