Cord Byrd

I respect the Senator's viewpoint. I respect every Senator's viewpoint, here. I, too, seek a balancing of the interests. And I think that is what we are doing in opposing this amendment. As I understand the amendment, it speaks of…

I do support the committee's recommendations on H.R. 889, as reported by Senator Hatfield. H.R. 889, as reported, contains recommendations totaling just over $1.9 billion to restore readiness funds to the Department of Defense. These funds…

on Tuesday last, February 28, 1995, the Senate was supposed to vote on the final disposition of the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. It may be of interest to my colleagues to know that exactly 200 hundred years ago, on…

Mr. President, Kipling was a great British poet. One of his great pieces of poetry is ``The Heritage.'' If I may at this moment just recall a couple of verses of ``The Heritage.'' Our fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small…

I congratulate the Senate today. The debate has been constructive, the occasion has been historic, and the issue has been decided in favor of the sanctity of the Constitution of the United States of America. The debate has been full and…

Let me ask the Senator. Suppose the President needs a new tax. Suppose he needs to raise taxes to meet that serious military conflict, that serious military threat to the United States. Suppose he needs to increase taxes. Then what? Would…

Will the Senator allow me to answer the question? Where do we stop? We have to, in order to stop it, we will have to swallow some tough medicine. We have already seen the Republican Senators turn tail and run when it came to tough medicine…

What they are, in essence, saying is that you have to have 51 votes in the Senate--no matter how many take a walk; you have to have 51 Senators, not including the Vice President, who would be willing to stand up and vote for a resolution…

Let me tell the Senator, 175 votes could defeat it; two- fifths could defeat it.

Yes. That is just the question. Why subject this country's security to the necessity of a supermajority vote when the Nation's very life is in danger, the security of the American people are in danger, the security of the troops in the…

Democracy is not perfect, but it is the best thing going. The issue here is the Founding Fathers were not infallible. We are not infallible. There are reasonable decisions that have to be made from time to time. The Dred Scott decision in…

what it also means is that in a situation such as the distinguished Senator from Maryland has raised--and he has focused on a section which I am going to reach a little later, but he has done it much better than I would have done it. What…

Just let me finish. This is one Senator who is not going to be befuddled or frustrated by interruptions. I will be very happy to yield to my friend when I have finished. Let me start again. We will learn over a period of time that there…

I point out to the junior Senator from Pennsylvania, who perhaps has not read the 12th amendment lately, that that is what that amendment is all about. There is no Vice President.

the courts are going to decide that. It does not make any difference what my intent is or what the intent of the House Member was who was addressing himself to that question, or what he intent of any other Senator is. It is the court, and…

The invasion of Haiti started. The President called it off--in midair, almost. I was not supportive of that invasion.

So I want to say to my friend, as Napoleon might have, he would say let us stick with the question. Let us stick with section 5. That is the question that has been raised this afternoon, in the main, on this floor. So, is the Senator…

What we get are speciocities, irrelevancies, platitudes, well-wishes, and expressions of good intent. We do not know what the ``intent'' of the Senators who sit at these desks will be 2 years form now, 3 years from now. Perhaps they will…

For 206 years it has not been required that there be a majority of the whole number in each House to pass a resolution.

Mr. President, when all is said and done, our friends on the other side of the aisle have not answered the question put to them by Senator Sarbanes. He brought up the language in Section 5 of the constitutional amendment to balance the…

When the Senator is around here long enough he may find himself confounded. If we get into a situation where the Nation's security is in the balance, we may all feel confounded by the necessity of acting expeditiously, because we have the…

Senator, ``You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.'' The Senator spoke of the omnibus continuing resolution. I have a little grandson who would say, ``Do you know what?'' Well, do you know what? On that…

Well, President Carter did. President Carter once submitted a balanced budget. I sat right over here in room 211. I was then the majority leader of the Senate. I sat over in room 211 on a weekend, brought my little paper bag, with some…

Well, Mr. President, that is the kind of answer that the proponents of this ill-advised constitutional amendment continue to make. ``Well, I have confidence that the Congress would do thus and so.'' Or ``The intent of the proponents of…

If I could have him and Senator Hollings there to help me, I would feel like fighting rather than running. He is a genuinely congenial Senator and I have enjoyed my service here with him. We have often talked and discussed matters…