Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget without boosting the deficit or gutting the military, the newly united Democrats came unglued. As haggling over a 1988 budget resolution split the House and Senate Democrats, Congress came to a near standstill for almost six weeks. The Washington Post derided the "Flubbocrats," and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, stymied on other fronts, threatened to delay the August recess if his dilatory colleagues did not buckle down...
...humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their deadlocked committees, and by week's end the Democrats had agreed on a $1 trillion spending plan for next year, including a $19.3 billion tax increase that Reagan vows he would veto...
...risks. A broad array of critics has come out opposed. Henry Kissinger, despite his sensitivities to Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows quite what the policy is." Even ultraconservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms remarked that Congress needed "more answers" from the Administration before approving the reflagging plan...
...flurry of proposals dramatizes the renewed clout of organized labor in the corridors of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, is more receptive when labor buzzes in his ear than was his predecessor, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, an avid defender of workers, has replaced the decidedly less sympathetic Utah Republican Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Democrats who are friendly to or received campaign money from the labor movement are in positions to help along the bulk of the business-related legislation. Boasts...
...Arabia's failure to intercept the Iraqi jet after an AWACS radar plane operated jointly by Saudis and Americans spotted it. Displeasure over the incident was so great that the Reagan Administration last week delayed submitting a proposal to sell new F-15 fighter jets to the Saudis. Remarked Byrd with considerable understatement: "I think it would have a tough ride right...