Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names Whiteside calls people are intermingled with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...
...Noureen Byrd...
...just that, proposing an amendment on a bill to raise the federal debt limit. The Democrats had the strength to beat back the tax cutters on a straight party-line vote, 58 to 38, but the prospect of more such votes was an embarrassment. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd denounced the Republican maneuvering as a "Tinkertoy economic solution" and "a con game with the American people." To head off more such votes, he called on the Senate Finance Committee to draw up its own tax-cutting measure by Labor Day. But since the Administration is due to produce a revision...
...ready to approve the plan proposed by President Carter last January, just after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. The House had passed the necessary funding by a vote of 219 to 180. After two days of what turned out to be a six-day filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd called for a vote to invoke cloture, limiting further debate to 100 hours. Byrd was surprised that it passed immediately...
...Byrd and Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, a strong supporter of registration, then cleverly employed parliamentary maneuvers to exhaust Hatfield's delaying tactics. At one point, for example, Nunn proposed cutting the bill's funds by an insignificant $10,000, and his amendment passed. That technically changed the bill enough to render inoperative some 75 other amendments Hatfield had introduced in an effort to delay passage...