Word: lott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged political atmosphere of the day, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) criticized the military action even before Clinton announced...
...deny San Francisco all of its federal funding for refusing to discriminate against twig-pickers. There was no anti-twig rider legislation on the D.C. Appropriations Bill. They exerted no pressure on the president to rescind employment non-discrimination for twig-picking federal workers. Trent Lott did not compare twig-picking to kleptomania. There were no "ex-twig-pickers" advertisements in The New York Times or The Washington Post. In fact, to my knowledge, no "ex-twig" ministries exist in America...
...favor by going over to the plotters. "All we did was raise all these millions of dollars--more money than we've ever had," said a source close to Linder. "Newt and [G.O.P. consultant Joe] Gaylord's job was to piss it all away." Senate majority leader Trent Lott, Gingrich's old coconspirator, couldn't believe Newt was announcing on the day after the elections that one of the G.O.P.'s priorities would now be "saving Social Security." That was Clinton's program, and Lott was in no mood to walk into a trap...
...made his mark on the House floor after-hours, when it was almost empty except for the C-Span cameras. He was a grinning nobody, the head of a band of brothers called the Conservative Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like a bunch of kids in a clubhouse with a small book of matches that they were going to light and blow up the world...
...smart enough to understand that a Senate and a House dominated by Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich will not embrace a throw-the-money-at-the-problem-leftist solution; the New Deal era is dead," he said...