The Byrd Rule, adopted in 1985, is a procedural constraint named after the late Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia to prohibit “extraneous” provisions from being tacked onto reconciliation bills, ...

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Local leaders, including Sen. Nichols, urge opposition to a project tapping 21 wells in Angelina County by June 19th. Concerns for water shortages grow.

<p>Updated: July 19, 2010</p><p>Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and ...

The process, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is intended to prevent the use of budget reconciliation to change policy rather than merely to raise and lower spending and revenues.

Normal cloture is but an infinite speck on the distant horizon when compared with a reconciliation bill,” the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., who authored his namesake rule, said in a 1989 ...

U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska was the target of violent threats made by a Georgia man, federal authorities said Monday.

Under the so-called Byrd rule, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and applied by the Senate’s parliamentarian, Congress cannot use the budget reconciliation mechanism to ...

Former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is set to report to federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving an 11-year sentence for s and acting as an agent of Egypt. The New Jersey Democrat has been mocked ...

The files include a psychological profile of assassin Sirhan Sirhan, including some of the then 24-year-old Palestinian-born Jordanian citizen's chilling handwritten notes that stated “Kennedy must ...

The CIA has made public 54 declassified documents related to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. This release on Thursday, June 12, totaling 1,450 pages of previously unseen material ...