Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conceivable that we could finish the work on the treaty by Friday or Saturday," Byrd told reporters after a White House meeting with Reagan to discuss the May 29-June 2 summit-between the president and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) agreed with Byrd that time remains before the summit to ratify the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. "We can make it if we start staying in late and we file cloture today," he told reporters...
...Byrd said he wants the Senate to act before Reagan meets Gorbachev. "I think the president's hand would be strengthened there and I think it would be in the interests of our own country to have the president with the instruments of ratification...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) acknowledged that the Senate would not override the president when it considers the veto early next month, but he scoffed at Reagan's request for speedy consideration of a stripped-down version of the bill...
...Byrd warned that it will be "extremely difficult" for a new bill to wend its way through the chamber's complex procedures before its Oct. 8 adjournment. "Anybody who thinks that can be done in the Senate is simply naive," he said...