Word: lott
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WASHINGTON: Can you have a trial without witnesses? Trent Lott would prefer it that way. The Senate majority leader is testing out the idea of a quick and painless two-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton to start January 11. After a few readings from the Book of Starr and presumably a quick acquittal (followed by a censure resolution), the whole mess would be history...
Still, no one expected the stunning blow that came in the statement by Senate majority leader Trent Lott not long before the first airbursts were seen over Baghdad: "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time. Both the timing and the policy are subject to question." This was a break with tradition. Even when Ronald Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada just two days after the terrorist bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut led to more attacks at home on U.S. policy in Lebanon, a skeptical Democratic leadership refrained from attacking the President's motives...
...conference call with his Senate leaders earlier that day, Lott had learned that they were as dubious of Clinton as he was. All the same, Livingston rushed that night to hold a press conference at which he underlined Republican backing for the mission. But even he was careful to say he supported "the troops," not the President. Late that same day, Defense Secretary Cohen, a former Republican Congressman and then Senator from Maine, responded to an invitation from senior G.O.P. House leaders to justify the attack from the well of the House. "The mood was fairly toxic," says Cohen. "There...
...Republican side, Lott is eager to get impeachment out of the way. But conservatives put him in his leadership post, and Senate majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, another anti-Clinton hard-liner, is likely to play the same role in the Senate that DeLay played in the House--making sure the process is driven to the bitter end. After the impeachment vote, Lott issued a statement saying the date on which a trial would begin depended on how much time was needed for the President's lawyers to complete pretrial motions...
WASHINGTON: The stampede that just last week sealed President Clinton?s impeachment is now headed in the other direction. CNN reports that at least a dozen more GOP moderates hold views similar to those of the four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen...