Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Church raising obstacles, Majority Leader Robert Byrd of Virginia has begun talking about delaying full Senate consideration of SALT II until December or later. The original timetable called for the treaty to be reported out of the Foreign Relations Committee by mid-October, debated by the full Senate for about a month and then put to a vote. Any significant slippage in this schedule will mean that Senate consideration of SALT II will overlap the 1980 election campaign. This could make a number of Senators facing re-election reluctant to vote for the controversial treaty...
...energy package: "The people want it. If we can't have an effective energy bill, I don't deserve to be re-elected and the Congress doesn't deserve to be re-elected." That was a bit much for Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has not indicated whether he will support Carter for a second term. Congress, protested Byrd, should not be judged on a single issue. "This is no time to suggest any such thing," he said. "We've already done...
...young, inexperienced and fundamentally disorganized. Worse, its members came to Washington with chips on their shoulders about the city's entrenched political establishment. Jordan himself refused even to meet most of the Democratic congressional leadership. "I'm sure I've met him," Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd loftily remarked last week. "But I've never had a conversation with...
...Byrd feels that he returned with at least a scenario by which Senate approval of the treaty is quite possible. And he came home plainly pleased with his journey...
...Byrd found the Soviets responsive to the idea of quieting their inflammatory rhetoric. Gromyko asked Byrd to apply the same rule of caution to his Senate colleagues. Byrd said he was advising them just that way, but he could not control them. He told Gromyko that a Senator could make a fiery speech about the treaty and the Soviets and still end up voting for the treaty. Gromyko then responded with rare whimsy: "If I should ever get the urge after reading some hotheaded statement made in the United States to reach for a pencil and paper, I will...