Word: lott
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...LOTT DOD Episode I --The Trade Federation's representative in the Senate; covers up and denies the invasion of Naboo...
...written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known as Lott, and Lott's main aim is to tie up Naboo's call to arms in committee, allowing it to die a quiet death, a la campaign-finance reform...
These acts of violence are contemporaneous with a wave of anti-gay comments voiced last summer by the highest ranking members of Congress, especially Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). A coalition of Christian groups simultaneously launched a print-media campaign (to be followed up by television ads later this spring) arguing that homosexuals are deceived and diseased persons who threaten the stability of the nation. Cloaked in the rhetoric of love and healing, this campaign, waged by the likes of presidential aspirant Gary Bauer, uses religion as a tool of political ambition. Among its many targets are state...
BILL CLINTON brought majority leader Trent Lott a gift from Central America...
...against the litigation. Former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour is arguing Microsoft's position with Republican Governors. The company's other lobbyists include four former members of Congress--Republicans Rod Chandler and Vin Weber and Democrats Tom Downey and Vic Fazio--and former aides to Senate majority leader Trent Lott and House majority leader Dick Armey...