Word: lott
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Ensign and Camp, however, wanted some real, popular legislation to present to their constituents. They got 52 House colleagues to sign a letter to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott urging that welfare reform and Medicaid be decoupled. Gingrich refused, but meanwhile Ensign was getting calls--30 in a few days, he says--from lawmakers who wanted to join his group. He and Camp got more than 100 House G.O.P. signatures on a second letter, and on July 11 the G.O.P. leadership gave...
...health care deduction for the self-employed. Taken with a 90-cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen Congress go from gridlock to Olympic gold," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a group of cheering Republicans. Maybe. "Congress is like the sprint cyclists at the Olympics," says TIME's Michael Duffy. "It starts really slowly, and suddenly speeds up for no apparent reason and then just as suddenly, the race is over. Congress hasn't done anything for eighteen months...
...gain personal credibility in their states for keeping their promise, but will also give Clinton the opportunity to make good on his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The Dole campaign scrambled to take credit for the decision spearheaded by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, but the Republican candidate will not get a lot of mileage out of the issue unless President Clinton is forced to veto the new legislation. --Lamia Abu-Haidar
...TRENT LOTT (R., Miss.), above right --$225 Waterford clock from Mississippi State University --$972 Steuben eagle from the Bryce Harlow Foundation --$5,000 silver statue of Columbus from United Seamen's Service...
...farewell, Dole urged his successor to practice the art of compromise. Heeding the advice, Lott held two meetings with Democratic leader Tom Daschle, who, in turn, refrained from attacking Lott as a Gingrich clone. But some colleagues warn that in a campaign season, Lott's pugnacious side would rather play up partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call...