Word: lott
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...bill were talking about the DiVall poll. Never mind that the survey had been partly funded by the tobacco industry and the questions had been written in a way that tarred the bill. "If this is a crisis in America," said Gramm, "America doesn't know it." Flying with Lott to Barry Goldwater's funeral, Speaker Newt Gingrich had also made it clear how desperately the House wanted to avoid a big fight with its base supporters before November...
BUILDING BRIDGES For Senate majority leader Trent Lott's hometown: a new, eight-lane span to replace an old drawbridge over the Pascagoula River. $38 million...
...bill was a White House dream: It struck a blow for teen smoking, made nice with the soccer moms, and also paid for about $10 billion of extra goodies in Clinton?s 1998 budget. It was a win-win that turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately...
WASHINGTON: The Senate is in an uproar over Trent Lott's comments Monday that homosexuality, far from being biological, "is a problem... just like alcohol." But don't expect Lott to recant...
...indignant. And Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat, wants to use the furor to break the deadlock over the nomination of James Hormel -- an openly gay San Francisco philanthopist -- who was tapped to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Sensing a way to make points with the GOP's right wing, Lott has kept Hormel's nomination tied up for a year. But Wellstone's initiative notwithstanding, Dickerson says Hormel is no closer to Luxembourg. "Lott promised that he'd sit on the nomination, and that's what he'll do," says Dickerson. It's good to be the Majority Leader...