Word: lott
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...pass this bill again and give it to the president, give him another chance to do the right thing," said Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon during pre-vote hearings, "because the only reason he vetoed it was because of those lies by Ron Fitzsimmons." Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said after the House vote he did not yet have enough votes in the Senate to override Clinton's promised veto. But if Fitzsimmons' admission and GOP momentum in the House sways the Senate, Clinton might be inclined to drop his threat. Considering the fact that last year's bill...
...days Reno had been meeting privately with her top lawyers to figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose...
...mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions don't apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said there were arguments that under that interpretation, "some of these coffees, some of these sleepovers" at the White House might fall outside the scope of the investigation. Expanding the investigation may prove a tough pill for everyone in Congress. While Bill Clinton may have sold seats at his weekly...
There is reason to believe, however, that the two men will fall back on their instincts for cautious progress. Assessing Lott's legislative successes last summer, Republican strategist Ken Duberstein observes that "Trent understands that we're a nation of incrementalists who like our progress in bite-size portions." And Clinton, after the failure of his massive health-care program in 1994, seems to have reached the same conclusion. So it is likely that the courtship of Washington's hottest couple this year will look like this: Trent and Bill, holding hands and taking, if not a leap, then...
...GOODGAME, our Washington bureau chief, grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only son of a shipyard machinist. So we thought he might be well suited to report and write this week's profile of Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who also grew up in Pascagoula, the only son of a shipyard pipe fitter. Goodgame is so familiar with Lott's milieu that many sources he interviewed began by asking him "So how's your mama?" When one source wasn't in, he was found at a meeting with Goodgame's uncle. "Everyone back home is so proud of Trent Lott...