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...rent-subsidy section came under some scathing criticism; Virginia's Harry Byrd, even before the debate began, denounced the plan as "renti-care." A Republican-backed amendment that would have killed the provision was defeated by a 47 to 40 Senate vote. But that count sounded closer than it actually was: Democratic leaders had at least another half-dozen votes in hand, if needed...
...crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds of the maximum retirement benefits. Byrd argued that something had to be done for workers in the "twilight zone," estimated that of 3,500,000 Americans now eligible to retire at 60, some...
...largely because U.S. business has increased productivity faster than U.S. labor has pushed up wage costs-with the result that prices have held relatively stable. But even economic conservatives have lately accepted the idea of using deficits to stimulate the economy in slack years. Sighs Virginia Senator Harry Byrd: "Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a platform that pledged to cut governmental expenditures by 25%. Nobody would dare run on such a platform today...
...understand why Kennedy made 1961 legislation weak," Rauh said, were threntened with a filibustor. in 1965 Byrd's asthma would keep from filibustering more than 20 minutes. We begged the attorney to make this bill as good as the President's speech but he wouldn...
...welfare system, under the unsympathetic guidance of Senator Byrd of West Virginia, is unrealistically harsh, one of the most ill-conceived in the country. As one particularly grim example, children of unemployed parents in the District, for reasons known only to God and the Senator, are denied benefits available to children of unemployed parents in states, including Senator Byrd's own West Virginia...