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...Earlier today Senate majority leader Bill Frist said that border security will be a 'top priority' in 2006 ... This is like telling people in Mexico, 'Hurry up, you've just got five weeks left before we close.'" --JAY LENO...
...slowly regained stature--so much so that insiders think if he stays in the Senate, he will return to a leadership post. Lott tells TIME he "certainly will" consider running for a top G.O.P. job if he seeks a fourth term next year. With Tennessee's Bill Frist set to retire in 2006, Kentucky's Mitch McConnell seems a shoo-in for majority leader, but Lott could win the No. 2 post--that of majority whip. Why? Because at a time when George W. Bush is faltering, it's hip to be a White House outsider. The President ensured Lott...
...help that Bush's main enforcers on the Hill are themselves in a defensive crouch. Cheney could find himself a witness in a criminal trial, House majority leader Tom DeLay had to step down to fight indictments for money laundering, and Senate majority leader Bill Frist is under investigation for possible insider trading. The party's ambitious comers are not running as Bush's allies and heirs, and the 2006 campaign promises to be an epic battle. G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff says the percentage of people who define themselves as "very interested" in the 2006 elections is already...
...after the President offered Miers. She was presented in the Oval Office but, as if that location were jinxed, Alito, like Roberts, was introduced in the Cross Hall, near the Bill Clinton portrait, with Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Counselor Dan Bartlett on hand. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, who had mostly held his tongue about how annoyed he was about the Miers choice, finally had something to smile about. "If the Democrats look for a fight, we'll be there ready to fight," he said on Fox News. Democrats are already unfolding their arguments: hostile...
...This is a prescription for brand-name drug manufacturers to earn greater profits at the expense of low-income consumers," charges Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller. But aides for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley insist the generic drug companies are exaggerating the pain they'll feel from the expanded discount. They add that the deficit reduction bill, which the full Senate will consider this week, has other sweeteners for the generics companies...