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Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the minority leader, for weeks had been criticizing the proposed constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas told colleagues he would try to pressure his state legislators back home into not ratifying it. "Ninetynine percent of us have doubts," said Minnesota Republican Senator David Durenberger. "I don't know if it will work...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...
Despite a lot of huddling last week, neither side in Congress is close to agreeing on a specific package. Said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "We haven't put enough together to wad a shotgun." The Democrats were still busy jockeying for position. Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd called on the President to submit a new budget with a vastly reduced deficit. House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed a Camp David meeting of Administration and congressional leaders of both parties, at which a bipartisan budget could be worked out. The simplest but also the most provocative proposal...
...Republican-controlled Senate, Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia urged Reagan simply to withdraw his proposed budget and submit one less awash in red ink. But Byrd could not resist scoffing at his Republican colleagues for bewailing the huge deficits after they had pushed through Reagan's program of tax cuts last year. "When you buy bologna at the supermarket," said Byrd, "you shouldn't expect to get home and find roast beef...
Republican leaders in the Senate, on the other hand, normally would vote against a bill that the President did not like, while Democrats would feel free to push it. But Byrd took a position opposite that of House Democrats, arguing that it would be futile to pass the bill without the votes to override a veto. Republican Senators, also differing with their House counterparts, decided to approve the compromise, just so Reagan could wield his dramatic veto...