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16 Nov 2017, 7:32 am by Colby Pastre
This rule, named after the late West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, prohibits tax and spending bills from increasing the federal deficit beyond the ten-year budget window. [read post]
26 May 2010, 1:06 pm by Dale Carpenter
Robert Byrd (D-WV) is on board. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 11:51 am by Sandy Levinson
Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who is 92 and frail. [read post]
20 Sep 2009, 4:04 am
"Those machines were paraded into court as the gospel, and we now know it wasn't," said Venice attorney Robert Harrison, who has led the fight for years against the machines. [read post]
4 May 2007, 8:14 am
The other development is the Byrd-Clinton deauthorization proposal: In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she and Senator Robert Byrd will introduce legislation to end authority for the war in Iraq. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 8:45 pm
While she was driving me to my zombie bank, I was suggesting to her that West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd was an Ardi. [read post]
1 Nov 2006, 4:21 am
Now, 22 years later, I find myself not only refusing to support Raese against Robert Byrd (the man who for years has embarassed me with his pork), but I have come to the conclusion that the Republicans are so corrupt, so dishonest, so beholden to special interests and fanatical lobbying groups that Byrd not only looks to be the better option, but the entire Democratic party looks better. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 8:57 pm
The law establishing the holiday was created in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill of 2004. [read post]
4 May 2009, 6:59 am
Twelve Democrats and all Senate Republicans enter in the Hall of Shame.Alexander (R-TN)Barrasso (R-WY)Baucus (D-MT)Bennet (D-CO)Bennett (R-UTBond (R-MO)Brownback (R-KS)Bunning (R-KY)Burr (R-NC)Byrd (D-WV)Carper (D-DE)Chambliss (R-GA)Coburn (R-OK)Cochran (R-MS)Collins (R-ME)Corker (R-TN)Cornyn (R-TX)Crapo (R-ID)DeMint (R-SC)Dorgan (D-ND)Ensign (R-NV)Enzi (R-WY)Graham (R-SC)Grassley (R-IA)Gregg (R-NH)Hatch (R-UT)Hutchison (R-TX)Inhofe (R-OK)Isakson (R-GA)Johanns (R-NE)Johnson (D-SD)Kyl… [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 9:36 am
These Senators voted to not filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court: Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Baucus (D-MT)Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO)Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN)Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Cornyn (R-TX)Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) DeWine (R-OH) Dole (R-NC) Domenici… [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 3:10 pm by Steven M. Taber
Mark Begich of Alaska, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Carl Levin of Michigan and Max Baucus of Montana,  said that while EPA has the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources, it lacked such power to regulate stationary sources. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 11:47 am by Jonathan H. Adler
As Time reported at the time, the Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-WV) was not amused, and called upon the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest his wayward Senate colleagues.The police raiders struck after midnight. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 1:04 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Many years later, recalling the political tightrope of the debate, Senator Robert Byrd summed it up the politically unpopular fight for the treaties this way: “Courage? [read post]