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Fourth-ranked Harvard will face top-seeded Virginia, and third-ranked Princeton will face second-seeded Maryland this weekend at Byrd Stadium in College Park...
...Senate have been wrestling with ways to attach the health-care bill to the economic package in a giant superbill later this year. Senate rules made the gambit look unlikely from the start, but last week Hillary joined one final push on the issue before Senator Robert Byrd confirmed that it wouldn't be appropriate...
...that: he sketched the shape of Clinton's program just a few days after the Inauguration. He realized Clinton would shy away from taxing the carbon content of fuel, for example, after asking the President's advisers whether they were willing to run afoul of Senate Appropriations chairman Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat whose state mines carbon-rich coal. "If you go over the options yourself and think about the difficulty of getting anything through Congress, you can see what questions to ask, and what's likely to happen," Goodgame says. "That's the connection between politics...
...privately signaled that he'll oppose the plan if the freeze on pay for federal workers survives"; Ernest Hollings "has hinted he won't go along unless we cut the deficit even more"; Sam Nunn "hasn't committed to the defense cuts, and without him, forget about it"; Robert Byrd "is dubious, to put it mildly, about any spending cuts at all, which means each of them is going to be a major battle. We've got to get some parliamentary rules that keep the cuts from being considered separately, but Byrd's going to make that a bitch...
...moment, opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried in his pen"). That is certainly interesting language, but it does not constitute a valid argument against such a necessary bipartisan measure of fiscal discipline...