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...both Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia,the incoming Democratic leader, and Rep. JimWright of Texas, who is expected to serve asspeaker of the House in the new Congress, werereported cool to Reagan's call for a joint HouseSenate committee...
...view of most Democrats, the President blatantly flouted these provisions. While the law does not define "timely fashion," the Democrats insist, that phrase cannot be stretched to cover a period as long as the 18 months of secret negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana...
Backtracking from the barbs he had been aiming at Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston last week abandoned his five-month effort to replace the silver-haired West Virginian as the party's Senate floor chief. "The reason I'm withdrawing is that I don't think I have the votes," said Johnston. In January Byrd will reclaim the post of majority leader, which he lost when the G.O.P. took control of the Senate in 1981. Scorned for his untelegenic image, Byrd, 69, beat Johnston's challenge through old-fashioned cloakroom influence. As Johnston...
...prospective new majority leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is a master of parliamentary strategy. But even back when Democrats ran the Senate, before 1981, Byrd was not a leader who could mold the party's agenda or articulate it well in front of the cameras. For these reasons he faces a spirited challenge from J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, a bright and more telegenic moderate who feels that a majority leader should use his office as a "bully pulpit" for projecting Democratic values to the American people. A secret ballot will be held by the Democratic caucus next week...
...York Times, put forth a vague pastiche for "renewal" and "healing" that hinted at a retreat toward trade protectionism and vast new Government spending programs. He offered no clues on where the money might come from in a nation whose wealth is dangerously overspent now. Robert Byrd's genial and rambling pledges for a new beginning did nothing so much as remind people of the Senate Democratic leader's other, unhappy years...