Word: lott
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...Trent Lott, meanwhile, was in his usual spoiler's role; his proposal to scrap price supports for tobacco farmers and replace them with a buyout program drew snipes from Democrats, who accused Lott of bursting the bipartisan bubble the bill had enjoyed thus far. Responded Lott: "If you don't want us to try to find a way to deal with children smoking and drug abuse by children . . . go right ahead." The upshot: this could take a while...
...drew the scrutiny and disapproval of groups like the Traditional Values Coalition and the Family Research Council, an offshoot of Dobson's Focus on the Family. After clearing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last fall, Hormel's nomination has been on hold. It will stay there, majority leader Trent Lott told TIME last week, for "the foreseeable future...
...Campaign Finance Reform. To many Americans, campaign fundraising reeks of corruption. The Republican leadership in Congress, by killing every major attempt at campaign finance reform, hopes that voters won't care enough to punish them in November. Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, for example, claims that voters in his home state of Mississippi "don't ask me about this subject." When representatives return home for summer recess and begin campaigning, we'll see if they're correct. If not, look for the Republicans to meet the fate of their Democratic predecessors who once thought voters didn't care about budget...
Maybe that would work, but then again, nothing in this long winter and early spring has played out the way it was supposed to. Clinton's adversaries were hard pressed to find the bright side, but Senate majority leader Trent Lott made a go of it: "I assume that since this appears to be good news for Clinton," he said, "his poll numbers will go down...
Senator Trent Lott's trial balloon--censure the President if any of this proves to be so--might be just right...