Word: lott
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NOTEBOOK: Saddam's virtual link to 9/11; a feisty Trent Lott; playing with a full deck (Arnold, Gray, Hillary, Rush and more); the coveted Michael Bolton presidential endorsement...
Nine months after being forced to step down as Senate majority leader, Trent Lott is back. And he's taking swings at George W. Bush, the President whose strong condemnation of Lott's racially insensitive remarks at the late Strom Thurmond's birthday party helped precipitate Lott's demotion. In June the Mississippi conservative voted against a Medicare prescription-drug bill the President had urged Republican Senators to support. Earlier this month he publicly warned Bush that he had to give Americans more details on postwar-Iraq plans. And last week he joined Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan in a resolution...
...really found his niche," says a friend. "He recognizes you don't have to have the top power seat in the Senate to be extremely powerful." Lott has breathed life into the dormant Senate Rules and Administration Committee, whose chairmanship he got as a consolation prize after being deposed. He has used the panel to explore such politically sensitive proposals as changing the Senate's filibuster rules and the laws on presidential succession. And he could become a pest when Bush seeks approval for his $87 billion request for postwar Iraq. While Lott has told Bush aides he will support...
...believe we have sufficient military, however they need better ways to analyze the information as it is gathered. We need to support our troops and government more and criticize less. Bobby Lott Brandon, Miss...
...going to tell all. Whoo-ee, there are going to be a lot of nervous people around here." TRENT LOTT, Republican Senator from Mississippi who was ousted as majority leader, about the book he's thinking of writing...