Cord Byrd

I am not for it; I am not against it. I do not know where I am on this bill. I have not had an opportunity to study a committee report, although the committee report that was accompanying the bill which came from the Committee on…

I do all the vacuuming. I do the dusting. I dust the furniture in the family room and dust the furniture in the living room, and so on. My wife does the buying and the cooking and the washing and the ironing and the pressing of suits and…

Very well. Then, if in this budget-cutting fever that is so infectious, Federal aid to education is cut--and I might be one who would support such a cut. Here we are pouring billions of dollars into Federal aid to education for our poorer…

I may not have another chance today to say a few words on this. Mr. President, the first item of legislation passed by this Congress was S. 2, the Congressional Accountability Act. The Senate now has under its consideration S. 1, the…

As I understand, the pending bill authorizes more Federal staff at CBO and more Federal spending, $4.5 million per year, to hire additional CBO personnel to carry out their new, largely unachievable, responsibilities under the bill. In…

But, Mr. President, we also have obligations, each of us has an obligation to know what is in this bill, and I think it is very important that we see those committee reports. I wish to see the committee report from the Committee on the…

And I will not take but a few minutes. Mr. President, this illustrates why we should have time to study the bill and the committee report. And we have now been assured that there will be, not only the committee report by the Committee on…

I am assured by Senator Glenn that that is the case, that the minority called for a committee vote and lost. Now, Mr. President, if this were an emergency piece of legislation or if it were a piece of legislation that had to pass before…

I want to make it indubitably clear that I am not seeking to be a traffic cop. That is the third time I said that today, but some things bear repetition. I feel that we are justified in knowing more about this bill before we cast our votes…

I honor and respect my friend. He is doing what he ought to do. He is fulfilling his responsibility. He is seeking to get a vote on the amendment. I respect him and admire him for that. But, Mr. President, as I said earlier today, we want…

If the leader will yield, I have no objection if the Senator wants to move to table them all. I am not here fighting this bill or supporting it. Before we vote up or down on an amendment, I want to know what we are voting on. If the…

That is not a committee report. I do not know whether all the members of the minority had an opportunity to present their views or not. There is a great difference between the committee report and the statement of the Senator in the Record.

Does it not follow then that if in due time amendment No. 1 is restored, would the number, the numbers that are being renumbered now, would they not have to be restored to their present stature?

recently I received a newspaper insert from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch concerning the selection of 2 of our former colleagues as the 1994 St. Louis Men of the Year. Former Senators Tom Eagleton and John Danforth were selected to receive…

Madison in the Federalist No. 53 states, in part, as follows: No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subjects on which he is to legislate. A…

Mr. President, after careful consideration of the issues involved, I have determined that I must vote against the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. I do not expect to persuade others, and there may be no others who will vote…

My question is this, may I say to the distinguished Senator: Would the Senator be willing to revise his proposal in a way that would delete the language that is set forth in paragraph (1) and in (a), preceding (1), which reads as follows…

The Senator is getting very close. He is getting very close. I do not want to say right here that I would support that as the Senator has outlined the precise changes, but he is moving in the direction, and I would like to see what he puts…

The Congress declares that prior to any vote to adopt in the first session of the 104th Congress a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced Federal budget, it is essential... It is essential that it…

the Founding Fathers were wise. The current rules are the result of experience and trial and testing over the period going back to the beginning of this republic. The previous question was done away with, as I have already stated, almost…

The Senate has not established a rule that is clearly in contradiction to the Constitution of the United States. Senators have had the liberty of unlimited debate in the Senate since 1806. In 1806, the rules were codified. Originally, in…

I want to correct something I said last night I see in the Record. I said last night that Brutus married the sister of Cato. Actually, Brutus was the son of Servilia, who was the sister of Cato--just to make that little correction for the…

There you are. Why do we not use the rules we now have? No, we do not do that. We ask unanimous consent to take up a matter and somebody objects over here. That is called a filibuster, and immediately a cloture motion is put in. Well, some…

my friends and others have stated that there are only five instances, in the Constitution, of reference to a supermajority. I call their attention to amendment 12 of the Constitution, which provides that in the election of a President by…

the proponents of the amendment have pointed out a number of times that most of the so-called filibusters have occurred in the last year, or last 2 or 3 years, and according to the chart, that is correct. What they are talking about, Mr…