Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, proponents of the bill have been falling all over each other to extol its benefits since the President unveiled it as part of his National Energy Act in April, 1977. The Department of Energy, White House lobbyists, and senators like Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) have all taken a hand at trying to force the bill through Congress. They claim that higher prices will promote development of new gas sources, and allow producers to extract already-discovered gas which is currently too expensive to bring up from the ground. New gas supplies will replace imported...
...PRESIDENT should have nothing to worry about, since arm-twisting by Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), floor leader of the bill, have beaten back efforts to kill it by a filibuster. For a time, it looked as though deregulation might be defeated by a coalition of consumer states, led by Sen. Howard R. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.), and joined by right-wingers like Sen. Clifford Hansen (D-Wyo.) who want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind...
...Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the majority leader of the Senate, said Carter deserves the credit for "one of the most significant achievements in modern diplomatic history...
Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) said Saturday that the fight to pass the compromise is "virtually over the top." A "conservative" count lists 49 votes in favor of the bill, 37 opposed and 14 "question marks," Byrd said...
Supporters, led by Ted Kennedy, insisted that the District is as worthy of national representation as several states. Seven states, in fact, have fewer residents than the District's 700,000; eleven pay less federal income tax; ten had fewer men killed in Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd referred to the District's status as "conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote...