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...Byrd-dogging...
When Virginia's Independent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., 67, decided last June not to seek reelection, he ended a 50-year family monopoly on the post. He also set the stage for a photo-finish race between three-term Republican Congressman Paul Trible and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Richard Davis for his seat. For the past two months, Virginia's undecided vote has remained at 20% in a contest the pollsters now rate virtually a tossup...
...Tower-who, much to the anger of Senate leaders, had unexpectedly flown back to his home state of Texas-that would use his vote to block the override, but the ploy failed. Twenty-one Republicans sided with 39 Democrats against the President, while only three Democrats and Independent Harry Byrd of Virginia joined 26 Republicans to support...
...when the Senate last week cast a suspenseful roll-call vote on the amendment, Byrd, Tower and Durenberger all voted for it. They were far from alone in saying aye to a measure they privately opposed. "If we were voting in a dark room," declared Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of only seven Republicans to go against the measure, "it might get six votes." But in the spotlight last week the amendment got 69, two more than the required two-thirds majority. Twenty-two of the Senate's 46 Democrats joined 47 Republicans, cheered...
...sense, the Senate voted to put off until tomorrow what Congress and the White House cannot bring themselves to do today: balancing the budget. Byrd, for instance, who faces a difficult re-election in November, waited until he saw that his own vote would not be decisive before he took the politically expedient course of adding his approval. Such election-year maneuverings helped provide a victory for President Reagan, who had championed the amendment despite his own inability to propose anything remotely resembling a balanced budget...