Word: lotte
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...That was enough to make Trent Lott contemptuous. "Why should they get special treatment?" asked the Senate Majority leader. "They'll get it when the House gets it." Still, for Kendall, this request is a surprisingly savvy political move. It won immediate support from Democrats, who are making administration-friendly noises for the first time in a week -- if only because they believe Clinton should have a chance to defend himself. Review and commentary is "an appropriate and professional courtesy," according to Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat who says he fully expects the Lewinsky matter to lead to impeachment...
Such ads are part of a tactical two-step by the G.O.P. While national figures like Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott remain temperate and judicious, party operatives are urging rank-and-file Republicans to exploit Clinton's troubles at will. "It's a good strategy, especially for Republican challengers," says G.O.P. pollster Glen Bolger. When the party ran ads linking Democratic incumbents to an embattled Bill Clinton in 1994, Bolger says, "it worked extremely well. It told voters that they could send a message to Clinton by defeating a Democrat in Congress. It might work again...
...recent weeks. "It's premature for anyone to make any judgment," the House Speaker lectured reporters from his district in Georgia. "I think that everyone would be best served if they waited for Judge Starr's report and found out what all the facts were." Senate Republican leader Trent Lott purposely avoided the cameras, instead issuing a written statement from his home in Pascagoula, Miss. He blamed the President for causing pain to his family and "the American people," but called on the independent counsel to wrap up his investigation "without delay...
...Trent Lott has been bandying the idea about since March -- but with Clinton's speech proving less than satisfying for both sides, censure is gaining support in the President's own party. "Democrats like this," reports Branegan. "They see it as a way out, a show of bipartisanship that would put their disapproval on the record." And then, so the script goes, Clinton can make some more contrite comments and the country can move on. There's just one problem: Those in the GOP who are already calling for Clinton's resignation might simply ignore the censure -- and move ahead...
...President to face down the industry but also because the estimated $100 billion that was to come from McCain's bill in the next five years would have paid for many of Clinton's other ideas, such as preretirement Medicare and child care. Yet when Senate majority leader Trent Lott set about killing the tobacco bill, Clinton did nothing. Congress then giddily hacked up Clinton's budget priorities, slashing his requests for education, health care, child care and the environment. Last week Clinton complained that his budget requests for education and youth programs--$871 million for summer jobs, $260 million...