Thu. March 18, 2010
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Oak Ridger
March 18, 2010
McKamey hired
Robert Byrd from Morgan County who later become EMS director in Anderson County. Byrd, who did not attend
Wednesday's celebration, ...
msnbc.com
March 18, 2010
A group of Democrats, led by
Robert Byrd, challenged the constitutionality of the law directly to the
US Supreme Court, and were dismissed for lack of ...
The Brown Daily Herald
March 18, 2010
Scripps News
March 18, 2010
Next in succession is Robert Byrd, the president pro tem of the Senate, but at 92 he's too old and frail to take the office. So who's after Byrd? ...
McDuffie Mirror
March 18, 2010
Even the man who helped craft the
reconciliation process, Democrat Senator
Robert Byrd, called the misuse of this process "an undemocratic disservice to our ...
Courthouse News Service
March 17, 2010
West Virginia Democrat
Robert Byrd dropped his support of the bill and
Idaho Republican
Mike Crapo dropped his opposition. And two who did not vote the ...
The Hill (blog)
March 16, 2010
Robert Byrd (DW.Va.), the inventor of the Byrd Rule and the keeper of all Senate traditions, cannot be satisfied with this breach of Senate decorum, ...
Heritage.org (blog)
March 16, 2010
CNN
March 16, 2010
Crain's Chicago Business
March 16, 2010
Robert Byrd, who brought many new roads and federal facilities to
West Virginia in his long career. Or Mr. Reid, who single-handedly blocked a long-planned ...
Politics Daily (blog)
March 16, 2010
Robert Byrd's clip shows him being wheeled into the
health care vote last December and saying, "This is for Ted." Is that really an endorsement of the ...
Fredericksburg.com
March 14, 2010
Robert Byrd's opinion on
reconciliation and to humorously float a book idea called "Profiles in Pettifogging." Free Lance-Star readers were previously ...
Dothan Eagle
March 12, 2010
Background: Born and raised in the Wiregrass, Robert Franklin Byrd was born to Dr. Robert Morris Byrd and Georgia Helen Smith in Midland ...
Media Matters for America
March 12, 2010
Robert Byrd opposed using
reconciliation to pass
health care reform, citing comments Byrd made in 2001. However, Byrd recently defended use of ...
WTVY
March 11, 2010
It is official:
Houston County Coroner
Robert Byrd announced he will run for reelection this year. Byrd has been coroner of Houston County since 1987. ...
Politico
March 11, 2010
Robert Byrd (DW.Va.) that threatens the solvency of a trust fund created to help mine
workers suffering from black lung disease. "This had to be another one ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 11, 2010
Meanwhile, every right-wing assertion, however ridiculous, gains credence and apparent immortality in what Robert Byrd deliciously called Glenbeckistan. ...
WVNS
March 11, 2010
Robert Byrd, DW.Va., that would eliminate some of the barriers coal miners reportedly face when they try to prove they have black lung. ...
Washington Post
March 11, 2010
Robert Byrd's (DW.Va.) beloved dog Billy died. The late Sen.
Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) broke the news to
Sen. Charles Schumer (DN.Y.), who offered to eulogize ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 11, 2010
...
West Virginia Democrat
Robert Byrd) was added in the 1980s; it stipulated that only things having to do with
taxing and spending could be reconciled. ...
New York Times
March 9, 2010
When, in the mid-'70s, that
tactic once again threatened to bring the Senate to a standstill,
Robert Byrd, the
West Virginia Democrat who was the majority ...
The Guardian
March 7, 2010
I see from some comments on the
Robert Byrd post and some others that some of you don't quite understand what's really going on here with
reconciliation. ...
RenewAmerica
March 7, 2010
The so-called "
reconciliation" process is a special rule authored by Democrat Senator
Robert Byrd, exclusively for the event that the House and the Senate ...
Wheeling Intelligencer
March 7, 2010
Robert Byrd, who in two separate letters to his colleagues appeared to oppose use of the
reconciliation process to pass
health care legislation, ...
Small Gov Times
March 5, 2010
But other Democrats, including
Kent Conrad and parliamentary guru and author of the Byrd Rule,
Robert Byrd, say no they can't. Kent Conrad (D-ND), ...
TPM (blog)
March 5, 2010
Robert Byrd (D-WV) spent 14 hours personally filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a decision he now says he regrets. Byrd did wind up voting for the ...
Daily Kos (blog)
March 5, 2010
Robert Byrd (D-WV) was Majority Leader, wherein faced with an exploitation of an old cloture rule loophole that allowed Senators to file the same sort of ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 5, 2010
Robert Byrd (DW. Va.) blasted the
West Virginia newspaper for an editorial the paper ran on earlier this week related to
health care reform. ...
The Guardian
March 5, 2010
It's about Robert Byrd (who, six decades ago, was a member of a certain outfit, to save you nitwits who have to point this out any time the man's name is ...
Heritage.org (blog)
March 4, 2010
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
March 4, 2010
Huffington Post (blog)
March 4, 2010
Robert Byrd just came out in favor of using
reconciliation in health reform. Since reconciliation's also known as the "Byrd rule," that's a definitive a ...
Think Progress
March 4, 2010
Robert Byrd's (D-WV) opposition to passing comprehensive
health care reform through the
reconciliation process as proof that Democrats are skirting Senate ...
Reuters
March 2, 2010
*Under "The Byrd Rule," named for Senator
Robert Byrd,
reconciliation is limited to budget issues. The rule states: "A provision shall be considered ...
The Hill
March 2, 2010
West Virginia MetroNews
March 2, 2010
msnbc.com
March 2, 2010
Robert Byrd (D-WV) instituted a the budget rule. It is now known as the Byrd Rule. The parliamentarian currently is Alan Frumin. Not since Hubert Humphrey, ...
89.3 KPCC
March 2, 2010
Robert Byrd of
West Virginia, who devised it as a budget-balancing maneuver.] The initial Budget Act limited amendments by saying they had to be germane, ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 1, 2010
In The Audacity of Hope,
Barack Obama relays that
Robert Byrd advised the
Illinois freshman to "Learn the rules. Not just the rules, but the precedents as ...
American Spectator
March 1, 2010
Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond were both once segregationist Democrats, but while Thurmond became a Republican, Byrd remained a Democrat and therefore ...
