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Salon
April 3, 2018
On April 4, 1967, precisely one year before his murder in Memphis, when Dr. King delivered his speech at New York's Riverside Church about LBJ's ... Immediately upon JFK's assassination, Lyndon Johnson made a 180-degree turn the moment he became president, as he began pressing his SenateÃâà...
Politico
December 21, 2017
The Mississippi Republican has not given a speech on the Senate floor all year, and he's introduced only two bills during that time, both of them minor. .... The late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) voluntarily gave up his gavel at the Senate Appropriations Committee in November 2008. Byrd was 91 and facedÃâà...
TIME
December 19, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the tax bill, formally called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on Tuesday in a historic, party line vote. Within hours, House Republicans learned they'd have to do it all over again on Wednesday and revote on the bill, thanks to an obscure rule in the U.S. Senate.
Down East
December 15, 2017
In The Senate: Classic Speeches, compiled by Robert Byrd, the late West Virginia senator offers his list of the 50 greatest speeches before the upper chamber. ... His speech made his abhorrence of slavery clear, but his argument was based upon the constitutional and political history of the U.S. — facts that could not beÃâà...
American Spectator
November 13, 2017
Rather, the Senate simply adopted the thing, the brain-child of West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd. And here is what is particularly striking during the Harvey Weinstein Era about the impact of this archaic rule stemming from the Byrd brain: Byrd in his earlier days was a worse slime and more wretchedly vile thanÃâà...
Politico (blog)
September 26, 2017
I think she really had the right to read the letter that she was blocked, or at least temporarily blocked, from reading," Sessions said during a question-and-answer session following a speech at Georgetown University's law school. The Republican-controlled Senate voted along party lines to rebuke theÃâà...
Newsweek
August 18, 2017
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's ties to late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who admitted to creating a Ku Klux Klan chapter before entering public service, resurfaced Friday as Republican President ... Clinton also said that Byrd had been “the heart” of the U.S. Senate.
Utica Observer Dispatch
December 31, 1999
**FILE**Russian President Boris Yeltsin delivers a speech during a ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow in this June 5, 1999, file photo. ... Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia is joined on Tuesday, April 23, 1980 in Washington by Barbara Mandrell and Charley Pride as he entertains at aÃâà...
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