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Holsman's remarks at the winter session class, open to all who want to attend, "startled me so much that I wasn't sure if I'd heard her correctly," said Peggy Byrd, a Brown University senior who walked out of the lecture...
...students, including Byrd, left the lecture on entrepreneurship because they found it offensive...
...would be elected to succeed Tip O'Neill as Speaker, Wright met with network officials, who agreed that a live response would be more newsworthy than a pretaped show. Although it was the turn of House Democrats to give the response, Wright decided that inviting Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd to join him would show that Democrats in both chambers are determined to work in tandem now that they control all of Capitol Hill. Twice last month the two met in Byrd's ornate office to outline what they would say. Each leader drafted his own speech on yellow legal...
Wright made no mention of Iranscam. That was left to Byrd, who said that the dealings created a "gathering sense of mistrust," and added, "Bold actions can succeed, but they must be based on carefully considered and sound judgment." He left no doubt that the Democrats will hold Reagan's feet to the fire on Iranscam. But he also said, the "last two years of the Reagan presidency need not be a period of discord. A weakened President serves...
...when leaders of the 100th Congress called at the White House to discuss domestic policy. Reagan opened by pledging to veto as a "budget buster" a $20 billion clean-water bill that passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. House Speaker Jim Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told the President they thought they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn't get much of a response," Byrd reported...