Word: byrds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While GOP leaders are confident they've locked up their party's 50 votes in favor of Ashcroft, no one is absolutely sure how many Democrats are considering giving him the green light - although West Virginia's Robert Byrd, Georgia's Zell Miller and North Dakota's Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan have all expressed their intentions to confirm. One Democrat on the committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, doesn't need the extra week to make up her mind about Ashcroft; she has already announced her opposition to the nominee, citing his "ultra-right-wing" record on hot-button...
...first OMB director. Even Panetta, who chaired the House Budget Committee, learned the hard way that small decisions can make big enemies. His 1993 spending program passed by a single Democratic vote in the House, and in the Senate he alienated his party's powerful Appropriations chairman, Robert Byrd, by tossing out highway programs Byrd had slipped into past bills...
...large, though, the law is messy and outdated. In Texas a 1985 statute allows wrongly imprisoned people to collect as much as $25,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. That works out to slightly less than $6 a day for the 12 years Kevin Byrd spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The state agreed to pay it in May 1999, but Byrd has yet to see any money. In Texas, officials in the Attorney General's office say the state legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still...
...collection of evil "elder elite white men and women." Paul Begala, late of the Clinton White House, did an MSNBC online column in which he invited his readers to look at the electoral map on which the Bush states appeared in red: "You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart. It's red. You see the state where Mathew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay. It's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal building...
...party against the 1995 "Republican Revolution"--stopping dead a series of Contract with America bills that had sailed through the House. When Dole griped about the way he stalled Republican initiatives by tacking on unrelated amendments, Daschle retorted, "Welcome to the Senate, Senator Dole." Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who had opposed Daschle's initial ascent to leader, renominated him for the post in 1996. Said he: "I was totally wrong about this young man. He has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and modest demeanor...