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...oldtimers, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd now automatically become their party's highest elected officers in national politics. But neither man seems likely to become the voice of the Democrats' future...
...Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.), who will probably succeed Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) as Senate majority leader, said yesterday he would oppose considering anything beyond "must" budget bills...
...measure congress may undertake if Byrd has his way is the Senate Finance Committee's more modest alternative to Reagan's 30-per-cent three-year tax-cut proposal...
...start as a head coach, he took along some of his bull-necked Navy veterans. The record of Bryant's debut: six wins, two losses and one tie. He stayed at Maryland just one season, quitting when the college president, Harry C. ("Curly") Byrd, a former Maryland coach himself, reinstated a suspended player over the Bear's objections...
...Carter White House never could come to believe in Congress or its odd rituals. The leaders of both houses now stand at arm's distance or worse. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, who will chair the Democratic Convention, is hesitant about Carter. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who was overlooked for a major role in New York, let his displeasure loose in a bitter criticism of the President's handling of the Billy Carter affair...