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Senate Republicans supported Ribicoff's proposal strongly, by a count of 26-5, while 19 Democrats voted for the measure and 43 against it. In the final vote, three of its co-sponsors opposed the amendment: Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), who is the assistant majority leader, Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), and Frank Moss (D-Utah). Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), an announced candidate for the Presidency, voted for Ribicoff's proposal...
...finalists, all seniors, are: Donald A. Bloch, of Eliot House and Great Neck, N.Y.; W. Max Byrd, of Winthrop House and Arlington, Va.; Roger B. Hopkins, of Eliot House and Baltimore, Md.; Bancroft Littlefield, Jr., of Lowell House and Providence, R.I.; Joe A. Porter, of Eliot House and Madisonville...
...special credit is being offered as an amendment to the Administration's tax bill, which emerged from Sen. Harry Byrd's (D-Va.) Finance Committee last week. It does not appear in the House version of the bill, passed last fall...
Although it has been a full year since President Kennedy first proposed his tax bill to Congress, Johnson praised Byrd's committee for demonstrating "the ability of the Congress to respond clearly and promptly to pressing national needs." Byrd, he added, had shown "impartial chairmanship" of the group. But Johnson also warned that each day's delay before final passage "withholds from our economic blood stream $30 million, produces business uncertainty, and holds off business investment decisions that would create new jobs...
...said he had taken it out for Mrs. Johnson to make a selection." Reynolds told the committee that he purchased a set and had it installed in Johnson's home at a cost of $588. Did Johnson know, asked West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, that the stereo was a gift from Reynolds? Replied Reynolds: "The invoice delivered to Johnson's home showed that the charges were to be sent to Don Reynolds." It was two years later, said Reynolds, that Johnson purchased another $100,000 in life insurance through him (for a total...