Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of last week the impasse had hardened into one that only the President had a chance of breaking. To that end, Reagan invited five top Democratic congressional leaders to the White House for a Monday morning meeting. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd suggested a "trigger" plan: 10% tax cuts would go into effect the second and third years only if inflation rates and deficits were declining...
Some of Roll Call is worthwhile. Cohen succeeds best when he describes the legislative bargaining from which we get our laws. In his entry for April 9, Cohen tells how the manueverings of Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd and Senator Dennis Deconcini defeated a prayer-in-school amendment proposed by Jesse Helms. The two democrats made Helms offer his amendment to court legislation that they knew would never pass the House of Representatives...
...made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member school board, pressed for the appointment of Chicago's veteran deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd, 52. But the other board members felt Byrd is too closely associated with past mismanagement to rebuild the school sys tem. Last week Chicago picked Ruth B. Love, 48, superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif, and a former director of the Right to Read program. Love will be the nation...
...Charles Percy of Illinois describe his extraordinary meeting last week with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. The conference lasted two hours and 40 minutes, more than an hour longer than scheduled. It marked the first time since July 1979, when Brezhnev met with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, that the Soviet leader has talked in person and at length with a high-level U.S. official. From all appearances, it was a major effort by the Kremlin to launch an early dialogue with the incoming Reagan Administration...
Tennessee's Howard Baker, who will take over from Byrd as majority leader in the new Senate, told the Republican Senators assembled in his office, "I don't remember when any incoming President has met so quickly with members of Congress." Later in the week Baker, who accompanied Reagan on several of his rounds, wryly observed, "I've been smiling so much my jowls hurt...