Word: lott
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...before a crucial Senate vote on the chemical weapons treaty, Bill Clinton got backing from an unexpected source: Bob Dole. Citing alterations in the treaty language, Dole said "there are now adequate safeguards to protect American interests." Dole's support could provide crucial political cover to Trent Lott and other wavering Senate Republicans, TIME's Jef McAllister notes. "Dole has always been closer to the internationalist wing than to the isolationists that Helms has marshaled against the treaty." While White House officials hoped that Dole's endorsement would give them the needed votes, spokesman Mike McCurry said the Administration...
...conform to their ideological point of view is going to be disappointed." Just last month Hatch, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, pushed through one of President Clinton's nominees to the federal bench despite objections from doctrinaire conservatives. Even though the nominee was confirmed 76-23, Lott publicly snubbed Hatch and voted...
...wonder Senate majority leader Trent Lott was so furious. Instead of working with his leadership to produce a Republican proposal, Hatch devised a bipartisan bill with Kennedy that Republicans will be hard pressed to oppose. Rather than create a Washington-run program, the bill gives block grants to the states to subsidize private insurance for uninsured children, pays for itself by raising taxes on cigarettes and then diverts $10 billion of the five-year proceeds to cutting the deficit. "It's good for children, it will reduce teenage smoking, and it will lower the deficit," Hatch says...
Easily enough, if you're Lott, who publicly derided the proposal as a "big-government program" that would never become law on his watch. And although Hatch quickly gathered seven G.O.P. co-sponsors, other Republicans whispered contemptuously about what they described as his sanctimonious air. "Hatch is not a team player," a Senate Republican grumbled. In a more public backlash, the conservative National Review recently dubbed Hatch a "Latter-Day Liberal," a play on his Mormon religion that Hatch found offensive. As the fray mounted, one of the bill's co-sponsors, Robert Bennett of Utah, dropped...
...TRENT LOTT Mr. Neat gets rolled by Dems, who manage to broaden Senate probe of campaign finance...