Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tower-who, much to the anger of Senate leaders, had unexpectedly flown back to his home state of Texas-that would use his vote to block the override, but the ploy failed. Twenty-one Republicans sided with 39 Democrats against the President, while only three Democrats and Independent Harry Byrd of Virginia joined 26 Republicans to support...
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the minority leader, for weeks had been criticizing the proposed constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas told colleagues he would try to pressure his state legislators back home into not ratifying it. "Ninetynine percent of us have doubts," said Minnesota Republican Senator David Durenberger. "I don't know if it will work...
...when the Senate last week cast a suspenseful roll-call vote on the amendment, Byrd, Tower and Durenberger all voted for it. They were far from alone in saying aye to a measure they privately opposed. "If we were voting in a dark room," declared Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of only seven Republicans to go against the measure, "it might get six votes." But in the spotlight last week the amendment got 69, two more than the required two-thirds majority. Twenty-two of the Senate's 46 Democrats joined 47 Republicans, cheered...
...sense, the Senate voted to put off until tomorrow what Congress and the White House cannot bring themselves to do today: balancing the budget. Byrd, for instance, who faces a difficult re-election in November, waited until he saw that his own vote would not be decisive before he took the politically expedient course of adding his approval. Such election-year maneuverings helped provide a victory for President Reagan, who had championed the amendment despite his own inability to propose anything remotely resembling a balanced budget...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...