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...Capitol Records...
Shortly after Missouri Democratic incumbent Jean Carnahan conceded defeat at 2 a.m. last Wednesday, giving Republicans control of the Senate, an aide sneaked into Trent Lott's empty Capitol office, pulled out a bronze name plate from a bottom drawer and put it on top of the senator's desk. MAJORITY LEADER was engraved on the plaque under Lott's name. Lott never considered Daschle's coup 18 months ago, which got Vermont Sen. James Jefford to defect and gave Democrats control of the Senate, a legitimate transfer of power. He was never able to digest it. So he never...
...Lott's calculation. He hopes to be majority leader not just at the beginning of next year when Republicans have 51 or more seats in the Senate - but next week. In fact, last Tuesday afternoon, as Lott sat in his ornate office on the second floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late...
...House v. Senate football games If this Capitol Hill rivalry existed, this would mark its saddest day. Former pigskin greats Steve Largent and J.C. Watts are leaving; Largent after dropping out to run his unsuccessful bid for governor, and Watts for personal reasons...
...midterm election, so the White House isn't in play. And in some states, Tuesday's votes will amount to little more than ceremony, sending veteran politicians back to their still-warm seats on Capitol Hill. In a handful of other states, however, voters will weigh in on some extraordinarily close races - and decide which party controls the U.S. House and Senate, each of which are split almost as evenly as possible. The Democrats need 6 seats to capture the House; Republicans are looking for just two seats to take the Senate...