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WASHINGTON, D.C.: New Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, elected Wednesday, insists that he will concentrate first on filling Bob Dole's shoes, rather than changing the style of the Senate: "Our agenda will be the same as Bob Dole laid out for us." Lott, whose manner is tougher than Dole's, reassured reporters after the Senate vote that he will not set a more combative tone in his chamber. TIME's James Carney reports: "Even though Lott retains close ties to the House, especially to Newt Gingrich who studied at his knee, he has become wise to the ways...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: New Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, elected Wednesday, insists that he will concentrate first on filling Bob Dole's shoes, rather than changing the style of the Senate: "Our agenda will be the same as Bob Dole laid out for us." Lott, whose manner is tougher than Dole's, reassured reporters after the Senate vote that he will not set a more combative tone in his chamber. TIME's James Carney reports: "Even though Lott retains close ties to the House, especially to Newt Gingrich who studied at his knee, he has become wise to the ways...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As Bob Dole's resignation from the Senate took effect Tuesday, the easy favorite to succeed him as Senate majority leader, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, prepared himself for a Republican Conference confirmation vote due Wednesday. Lott, who is far more conservative than Dole, has been Senate majority whip since the 1994 election, and the relationship between the top two Republican leaders in the Senate had been rocky at times. "Lott is qualitatively different from Dole," says TIME's James Carney. "He is a creature of the House that Newt Gingrich built and as a result we will...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As Bob Dole's resignation from the Senate took effect Tuesday, the easy favorite to succeed him as Senate majority leader, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, prepared himself for a Republican Conference confirmation vote due Wednesday. Lott, who is far more conservative than Dole, has been Senate majority whip since the 1994 election, and the relationship between the top two Republican leaders in the Senate had been rocky at times. "Lott is qualitatively different from Dole," says TIME's James Carney. "He is a creature of the House that Newt Gingrich built and as a result we will...
...Potomac's Washington side, Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine...