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Feingold refers to the ringleader of the resistance, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, as "the Grim Reaper of campaign-finance reform." But majority leader Trent Lott is the key player, and he resists reforms like free TV time for candidates and public financing of campaigns, which he calls "food stamps for politicians." Feingold insists that Lott doesn't "want to be tagged as the person who killed campaign reform. He's leaving the door open." But privately, aides to the G.O.P. leadership say it's pretty well shut...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...
...nominees who have breezed through confirmation proceedings, Lake, along with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns...
...nominees who have breezed through confirmation proceedings, Lake, along with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott seemed to understand this distinction at the end of the congressional session last summer, when he broke a logjam to pass not only welfare reform but also an increase in the minimum wage and a bill making health insurance more portable as workers move between jobs. Voters rewarded him and his colleagues with the Senate's highest approval ratings in a decade and with a Republican gain of two seats in the November elections...