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...rescue of the other victims. A physician helped clear the windpipe of a woman and resuscitate two of the other injured, staying long enough to direct the arriving paramedics to those who most needed help. Only after he left did anyone realize that the doctor was Bill Frist, incoming majority leader of the U.S. Senate...
...Frist, who doesn't mind his colleagues' addressing him that way instead of as "Senator," keeps a black medical bag in his legislative office and has shown a penchant for coming to the rescue. The Tennessee lawmaker treated victims of a gunman who opened fire in the U.S. Capitol in 1998, and in 2001 came to the aid of Strom Thurmond when the Senator, then 98, collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week...
Desperate to expunge memories of the racially insensitive remarks Lott uttered at Thurmond's 100th-birthday bash on Dec. 5, Republicans selected Frist as their new majority leader on Dec. 23, hoping the surgeon could reattach "compassionate" to "conservatism." George W. Bush, who nudged Lott out and Frist in, has similar expectations. But the President also wants to move quickly on tax cuts and Republican-oriented Medicare reform. And Frist is the least experienced Senator ever to assume the majority leader...
...they get past the filibuster, will be whether Pickering is a sound judge. And if you look at his record, he is," says McGinnis. "He hasn't been reversed very often." Pickering has his vehement, albeit occasionally defensive sounding supporters in the Senate, including newly minted Majority Leader Bill Frist, who told Fox News Sunday, "Judge Pickering is a well-qualified judge. The American Bar Association used those words, 'is well qualified...
...year cost, they say, of about $36 billion. It would provide a measurable short-term boost to the economy. It won't break the budget. But as the Republicans gird for the spring's big battle, the White House seems to betting on two things besides Bill Frist and his slight numerical edge in the Senate. One, that people will overlook the costs when the budget's already busted. Two, that whether or not these tax cuts bring back the boom times or just sit there while the business cycle does the work, it'll all look the same...