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22 May 2017, 4:02 am
In 2001, Trent Lott dismissed Robert Dove, the Senate Parliamentarian, after Republicans were angry that Dove, also a Republican appointee, disallowed spending measures as violating the Byrd Rules. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 6:16 am
CC350.U6 Bednar, Robert Matej. [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 8:21 am
Byrd. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 6:53 pm
" Section 19(b) states that the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall act as President (under the same terms and conditions) if the Speaker of the House fails to qualify. (6) Neither Nancy Pelosi nor Robert Byrd actually resigned their seats in the Congress. [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 12:17 am
Robert Byrd and Than Cochran (PDF 1.08 MB) Homeland Security: Planned Expenditures for U.S. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 11:25 am
This is evidence of our constitutional "civil religion" at its worst, where ritual and incantation substitute for critical analyis actually modeled for us by Madison and many of his colleagues.Perhaps the deepest irony is that Constitution Day is the result of a bill by Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), perhaps the most sustained critic of the Bush Administration's disastrous war in Iraq. [read post]
28 Nov 2021, 7:05 am
Byrd. [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 4:57 am
Robert Byrd, who complained about the "czars,"]] should also ask how the Senate has contributed to the czar-itis. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 7:30 am
Former Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd explained it well in a 2005 speech endorsed by then-Senator Joe Biden, among others: There is no stipulation in the Constitution as to how the Senate is to express its advice or give its consent… The Senate can refuse to confirm a nominee simply by saying nothing and doing nothing. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 7:55 am
Four days earlier, the United States Senate by a vote of 44-56 rejected a last-ditch motion by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia for pre-trial dismissal of the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, as shown in Congressional Record Vol. 145, No. 15. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 6:43 am
Reporting on Dingell’s recent announcement that he will be leaving Congress after this term, The Washington Post notes that Dingell has just surpassed the late Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) as the longest-serving member of Congress ever. [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 2:00 am
Robert D. [read post]
Term Limits, Entitlement Reform, and Random Assignment of Members of Congress to Committees 11-12-11
15 Nov 2011, 4:40 pm
They say no-one, whether it be Robert Byrd or Ted Stevens, ought to sit on a taxing, spending, or borrowing committee for longer than six years. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 4:08 pm
It was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 7:57 pm
Byrd and John D. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 6:26 am
There was an allusion to Robert Byrd supporting the Ku Klux Klan in 1958. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 10:24 am
Robert C. [read post]
29 May 2012, 7:52 pm
At the time it was decided and for years thereafter, Brown was denounced as illegitimate by most conservatives, and also by most southern Democrats (including many who were left-wing on economic issues, such as George Wallace and Robert Byrd). [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 3:00 am
Here is a list of adults who had been adopted as children: Halle Berry (actress) Robert Byrd (U.S. senator) Peter and Kitty Caruthers (figure skaters) Eric Dickerson (football player) President Gerald Ford Melissa Gilbert (actress) Scott Hamilton (Olympic gold medalist skater) Debbie Harry (singer, a.k.a. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:00 pm
As Jack points out in his own most recent posting, Cheney is absolute impeachment insurance, unless the impeachers decide to take on Bush and Cheney together at the same instant and thereby appear to be paving the way for an unconstitutional coup inasmuch as the Democrats would take over the White House without having to win an election, given the current Succession in Office Act and the resolute silence of Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd about the wisdom of repealing it on the best… [read post]
