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Many of the alterations in the disputed transcripts were made, legitimately, at the request of the members involved. But some Republicans charged that they had not been informed of revisions made in their remarks. G.O.P. Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi complained of "a pattern and a practice of malicious misconduct aimed at discrediting and defaming members of this House." Republicans tried to force the House into establishing a special committee to pursue the matter of the doctored transcripts in public hearings. But on a largely party-line vote last week, the Democrats succeeded in having the matter referred...
...horse-trading shaped the final bill. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire pressured the bill's backers to include an amendment permitting any Governor to veto siting of a nuclear-waste dump in his state unless majority votes in both the Senate and the House overrule him. Mississippi Congressman Trent Lott insisted on a population density-provision aimed at eliminating a potential site in his district from consideration...
...strong help in rounding up anti-production votes from Washington Democrat Norman Dicks. Several Republicans who did not want to be lobbied by Reagan told Dicks, "I'm probably going to vote with you, but don't tell the White House." Despite the heat, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, working with Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois to support Reagan's position, concluded that the President would lose. He gave White House aides the news so that Reagan could withdraw from an all-out fight, perhaps by agreeing to reconsider the basing mode, and avoid a repudiation. Reagan...
...strategy, so far, has failed resoundingly. When Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein reported at a budget meeting that even so fervent a congressional hawk as Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican House whip, is now calling for a slowdown in military spending, the President silently shook his head no. Reagan then interrupted the uncomfortable session to place a call to the astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. As if glad for an escape, he told the astronauts, "Well, now, wait till I get my hat and I'll go with...
...blaze prompted criticism of Mississippi's Republican Congressman Trent Lott, who represents the Biloxi area. He stepped in last year to halt Justice Department inspection of the state's often overcrowded local jails because he felt it was the state's responsibility...