Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This new mood, according to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, will affect the whole new session of Congress. For example, according to Byrd, the concern about the Soviet Union's expansionism could help to pass Carter's major energy bills and the windfall-profits tax on oil companies. It will also eliminate just about all opposition to a 5% increase in the Pentagon budget. "The Soviets took care of that?in Kabul," said Byrd. A senior Defense Department offcial agreed. Said he, beaming: "We're going to get all the money we now need. The Congress will...
...delay, wrote the President in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, would allow the White House and the Congress to "assess Soviet actions and intentions, and devote our primary attention to the legislative and other measures required to respond to this crisis." Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
...most important issue before the U.S. Senate: the SALT II accord. With passage already in doubt, treaty supporters feared that the embassy takeover would strengthen SALT opponents, who argued against limiting U.S. power. Thus the vote was postponed until early in 1980, when Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd says it will receive "top priority." Says Byrd: "I have no reluctance whatsoever to call up SALT, even though I don't know where all the votes are." By the most optimistic Senate head count, the treaty remains at least half a dozen votes short of approval, and the Afghanistan crisis...