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...TRENT LOTT (R., Miss.), above right --$225 Waterford clock from Mississippi State University --$972 Steuben eagle from the Bryce Harlow Foundation --$5,000 silver statue of Columbus from United Seamen's Service...
...Lott actually began his career as a conservative Democrat, serving as a top aide to Representative William Colmer, a segregationist, before switching to the G.O.P. to run for Colmer's seat when the boss retired in 1972. Cashing in on his college contacts from Ole Miss, where he was head cheerleader, Lott won with 55% of the vote and never looked back. In 1988 he became only the second G.O.P. Senator from his state since Reconstruction and soon leapfrogged over far more senior Republicans onto the top rungs of the leadership ladder. After the Republican sweep of 1994, he even...
...Lott's triumph consolidates a rightward and Southerly turn among the Senate leadership, which includes majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, Cochran as chairman of the G.O.P. conference committee, Florida's Connie Mack as its secretary and Idaho's Larry Craig, Public Enemy No. 1 for gun-control supporters and environmentalists, as chairman of the G.O.P. policy committee. Phil Gramm of Texas happily predicts "a more aggressive Senate...
...Lott won the majority leader's post with the support of some G.O.P. moderates like Jim Jeffords of Vermont and Olympia Snowe of Maine, who believe he is a closet dealmaker. For instance, he pushed a compromise on the telecommunications bill earlier this year that, perhaps not incidentally, benefited a Mississippi company. Lott is a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's ambidextrous political consultant Dick Morris, who advised Lott in both his Senate races and frequently conferred with the Senator during last year's budget fireworks...
...farewell, Dole urged his successor to practice the art of compromise. Heeding the advice, Lott held two meetings with Democratic leader Tom Daschle, who, in turn, refrained from attacking Lott as a Gingrich clone. But some colleagues warn that in a campaign season, Lott's pugnacious side would rather play up partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call...