Word: byrds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants Congress to enact a spur-the-economy tax cut. But Wilbur Mills, the key committee chairman in the House, says he is "cool" to the idea; Harry Byrd, the Senate's No. 1 fiscal fellow, is deep-frozen against...
...After 18 months in the presidency, during which he has suffered as many downs as ups, the President these days looks cool, controlled and relaxed. Those who see him regularly think he has tempered his anguish at being unable to remake the nation, or to win over Harry Byrd, overnight. But they report him far from resigned to the way Congress has cut up his domestic program...
...body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage of bypassing the Senate Finance Commit tee, headed by Medicare Foe Harry Byrd...
...LINDA L. BYRD...
...with Minnesota's liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey, who demanded an immediate $5 billion slash in taxes. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon opposed any such remedy on the theory that it would interfere with the broad tax-reform program that the Administration has promised for later. Testifying before Virginian Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. Dillon made this decision seem unshakably firm. Asked Byrd: "As the chair understands it, you have no immediate intention of recommending a tax reduction at this session [of Congress]?" Replied Dillon: "None whatsoever." But the policy was not really that solid. Dillon assumed that...