Word: lott
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...collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week, and the patient before Frist is his own party, still reeling from the Trent Lott debacle...
Desperate to expunge memories of the racially insensitive remarks Lott uttered at Thurmond's 100th-birthday bash on Dec. 5, Republicans selected Frist as their new majority leader on Dec. 23, hoping the surgeon could reattach "compassionate" to "conservatism." George W. Bush, who nudged Lott out and Frist in, has similar expectations. But the President also wants to move quickly on tax cuts and Republican-oriented Medicare reform. And Frist is the least experienced Senator ever to assume the majority leader...
...that he is starting from scratch. He has been on the phone to former Republican majority leaders Howard Baker and Bob Dole, asking for advice, and has been receiving tutorials in floor procedures from G.O.P. staff members. None of his decisions, not even the small ones, will be easy. Lott, for example, had already selected the 100 or so staff members a majority leader is allotted to manage the Senate, many among the Capitol's most skilled in moving legislation. Does Frist keep some of them to get the fast start Republicans originally wanted on their bills, even though their...
Frist brings to his new position a dazzling array of talents. One is a calm bedside manner on TV, which is just what the White House wants to appeal to minority voters and white suburbanites scared off by Lott. A heart-and lung-transplant surgeon who made millions from his family's hospital company, Frist often flew his own plane to transport organs to patients. Educated at Princeton and Harvard Medical School, he runs marathons, sleeps little more than four hours a night, has written a best seller on bioterrorism and during congressional breaks likes to fly to places like...
...been in the Senate only since 1995. Frist wants to begin by quickly finishing the appropriations bills stalled last year and passing legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the nation's 8.5 million jobless, a measure that, because it benefits many minorities, could begin repairing the Lott damage. After that, Bush wants to push for more tax breaks for investors and middle-and upper-income earners and for the Medicare reforms Frist previously championed, which rely more on the market to provide benefits. But Frist has little experience, for example, collecting the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster...