Word: lott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delivery of a $50 billion tax break for tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders had pulled off a classic fix: looting the general Treasury in the interest of a specific...
WASHINGTON: Be it penance or politics, Bill Clinton is really getting behind the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. While Minority Leader Tom Daschle was throwing a procedural temper tantrum over Republican stalling on the bill Tuesday, Clinton dropped an even bigger bombshell ? by writing to Trent Lott and threatening to call Congress into special session unless the bill gets some hearty October debate...
...bipartisan working group in the Senate, led by majority leader Trent Lott, has spent the past few weeks thinking of ways to redesign the Senate Chamber. The group wants something tasteful, historically appropriate and, unsurprisingly, TV friendly. It's an intriguing problem: What should a Senate for the 21st century look like? We posed the question to four talented designers and architects...
...Each month, in surreptitious ways, the handout to the broadcasters becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably forgo broadcasting HDTV altogether and instead cram a combination of several...
...swipe at the encrusted special interests, voting in June to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67, hike premiums for wealthier retirees and require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take on the senior lobby even...