Word: lott
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...Washington between votes on highway bills. The House and Senate should adopt new rules: No member of the House or Senate may hold, participate in or attend political fund-raising activities while his or her branch of Congress is open for business. Here's my favorite part: if Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich bring it to a vote, no one will vote against...
...cutoff date for funding U.S. troops in Bosnia to force the soldiers home. Instead, Senators settled for a non-binding resolution in support of the June 30 deadline already promised by the Clinton administration. After Senator Russell Feingold's cutoff proposal met with strong objection from majority leader Trent Lott, and others, the compromise resolution finally ensured that nothing would change for the troops. TIME's Mark Thompson wasn't too surprised that politics had once again stopped at the water's edge. "I don't believe Congress would ever really cut off funding," he said. "They talk...
...happy and productive life does not require knowing that Trent Lott is the Senate majority leader. Not knowing may even help. But anyone inside the Washington Beltway could tell you who Trent Lott is, just as anyone inside the Other Beltway knows the difference between Pathfinder and Netscape. And each would be struck by the other's ignorance. The "incomprehension" between the Two Beltways, in Snow's term, does run in both directions...
...when that happens?) @Large's first product, Sasson says with a smile, is "one of the simplest for marketing people to explain." And he's right, sort of. It's software that enables employees to file expense reports on a corporate intranet. (What's an intranet? Ask Trent Lott.) The sales brochure promises a "Thin Client" with "Rich Java GUI," which sounds like it's pushing a dietetic dessert...
BILL CLINTON Court allows line-item veto. Now we'll see if Trent Lott gets ship-building dough for his district...