Harry Flood Byrd

The courts are increasingly looking to the four corners of the law, rather than to legislative history as expressed on the Senate floor. I know the majority leader's intentions are what he said they were, namely, that this term…

I thank the Senator for his kind felicitations. The aisle, may I say, separates us. But friendship is not separated by an aisle, and he and I do not always vote together, as no other Senator and I vote together always. But there are many…

The power of the purse is no accident, and its inclusion in the Constitution of the United States is not there by chance. The British constitution, which is an unwritten constitution, except for certain documents and statutes and cases in…

I have often wondered how Shakespeare could have come to know and understand human nature as well as he obviously did, probably more so than any other man--any man other than Jesus Christ--who ever walked this planet; and how he came to…

I congratulate the majority leader on this agreement. I should state that those of us who oppose the Simon amendment gave up some of our rights, as did those who support it, but I think that this is the best conclusion. I think it will…

I have observed on many occasions that she has taken a path and chosen the unpopular approach and voted her convictions--after very careful study. I have noted that she reaches her decisions in matters of this kind after the most careful…

When we write this amendment into the Constitution, who is going to decide what reality is? ... It is somewhat ironic for me to think that that little bit of paper is going to make any difference, when it is the same people who are…

If this balance is done on the basis of estimates, there is no estimate that will ever be accurate.

I do not think that the standing would necessarily be a major problem in a matter of this kind. Some citizens or groups or Members of Congress themselves might have standing. The point is that somebody somewhere will find a reason to go…

Only God can say, prior to the end of a fiscal year, what the outlays are finally going to be and what the receipts are going to be. What does section 6 mean, then? The Judiciary Committee reported this constitutional amendment which says…

Only God--only God--and He is not being called upon in this debate, He is not going to be asked by the courts----

Not delivering the promised result at all. Let me cite to the Senator what the committee report says, the Judiciary Committee report. When it reported this amendment to the Senate it also submitted its report on the amendment. So here is a…

Absolutely not. And judicial nominees, when they come up before the Senate, do not want to answer a question on this or that. If you ask them how they feel about capital punishment, they do not want to answer the question because they may…

Yes. It involved a civil rights matter in the educational field. The Supreme Court ruled that tax increases could be required of a school district. And the Court reserved to the Court itself the ground of levying that tax if necessary.

This will damage the courts. What will be the credibility of the courts? How much respect are the people going to have for black-robed justices who require the legislative branch to raise taxes; unelected justices? Their decisions would…

He pointed to the deficit in the year 2004 as being anticipated as $365 billion; right?

I was a welder in the shipyards, in the McCloskey Shipyard in Tampa, FL. I was there the day the war ended, but we did not monetize the debt then. And at that time, as the Senator from New York has pointed out, the debt was 100 percent or…

If I may take a couple minutes before my friend from New York leaves the floor, I congratulate him, I salute him, I greatly admire him. I think he has contributed enormously to the debate, and I look forward to the hour and the day when he…

Both the distinguished Senator from Ohio [Mr. Metzenbaum] and the distinguished Senator from New York [Mr. D'Amato] know that for them ``my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.'' But I am not quite in a position to…

I hope that Senators, in voting, will review this list so that each Senator may see precisely how much moneys will be rescinded from his State's projects before he votes.

You do not need to reconsider something 95 to nothing. Not that many are going to change.

I intend to make the motion to table, and I do not want to vote on that motion at the present time because I want to accommodate the leaders on both sides who have been called down to the White House and cannot return until 6:30. I want to…

If the Senator is going to use it, will he also say that Jefferson went into debt for the Louisiana Purchase and that Jefferson admitted that he was embarrassed by having said one thing and done another?

Is the Senator going to use that example again of Jefferson's saying that he was opposed to the Federal Government's going into debt for an investment of that nature when the debt would have to be paid off by another generation?