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...witching-hour theatrics stemmed from the frustration of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd over the Republicans' filibuster of his cherished campaign finance-reform bill. Last year Byrd failed in seven attempts to muster the 60 votes needed to shut off a debate and bring the measure to a vote. Last week he decided to take off the gloves, declaring, "There is no point in continuing the casual, gentlemanly good-guy filibuster...
Bennett argues that the real problem is a shrinking pool of able black students, a problem felt nationwide, not just in the South. Says he: "In any one of these ten states, a black student will find, if he has qualifications, many institutions eager to have him." Jenell Byrd, an attorney for the Legal Defense Fund, disagrees, insisting that segregation remains an obstacle for Southern blacks who want to attend mostly white colleges. On that point, she claims, the Federal Government gets...
Despite its post-budget bill voguishness, the line-item veto will not become a reality anytime soon. "It is something that neither this President nor any other President should have," says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "It is a quack nostrum." As House Majority Leader Thomas Foley of Washington has suggested, the deficit crisis is essentially a matter of willpower. The White House, the Congress and the American public must decide together to make the sacrifices necessary to reduce the deficit. Until that time, ideas like the line-item veto will remain irrelevant oldies...
...bless ye, weary gentlemen," intoned Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd in a nearly empty Senate chamber at 4:15 a.m. one day last week. Across the Capitol, in the more festive House, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte urged merrily, "On Whitten, on Natcher, on Michel and Wright; On Conte, on Foley, let's finish tonight...
...decide whether to ratify the INF treaty. Most of the legislators came out of the 90-minute meeting impressed by Gorbachev's intelligence, candor and optimism. But many of them let the General Secretary know that some positive Soviet actions were necessary to improve relations. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, noted that a timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "would help" win Senate ratification for INF. Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California asked what could be done to speed the START talks along. "You know what needs doing," replied Gorbachev. He pointed out that...