Word: lott
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Mississippi--home of the blues...but things are getting better. And not the least for Republicans--Senator Trent Lott is Senate Majority Leader, Senator Thad Cochran heads two Senate agriculture committees--and farming is key in Mississippi--Haley Barbour is G.O.P. chairman, and Representative Roger Wicker was the first president of the Republican class of 1994. For a state with only five congressional districts, Mississippi packs a good deal of political wollop. There is also drama: a party-switching incumbent in the Fourth, an open race in the Third, and two African American firsts--Danny Covington in the Second...
CHARLES PICKERING JR. Republican--Mississippi 3rd Pickering won his race by a commanding 25-point margin, aided by his political ties to power brokers like Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott...
...spend more time beating up on welfare than figuring out how you're going to get these people covered.... When you go down there [to Washington] the first vote you cast will be for [Senate Majority Leader] Trent Lott," Kerry said...
...spend more time beating up on welfare than figuring out how you're going to get these people covered....When you go down there [to Washington] the first vote you cast will be for [Senate Majority Leader] Trent Lott," Kerry said...
...Republicans have to be careful about making too much out of Morris, whose clients have included such conservative Republicans as North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the new majority leader. For now, Dole campaign sources say, they are not likely to exploit the scandal in a negative television ad. "A Morris spot would anger a substantial number of Republican heavyweights," says a Dole aide. "A scandal like this is too easy to overplay. You just stay out of the way and let it do its damage...