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...workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work. Had the law been in effect over the past two years, said its backers, more than 1.6 million laid-off workers would have received advance word. Said Robert Byrd, the Senate Democratic leader: "It's not a labor issue. It's a fairness issue...
...Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who on taking over the Senate Finance Committee in 1987 formed a breakfast club with a suggested membership price of $10,000. When his hometown newspapers carried stories about the scheme, Bentsen dropped the idea. A similar group at an identical price, formed by Democrat Robert Byrd after he became Senate majority leader in 1987, continues to thrive...
...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...