Word: lotte
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...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...
...Boehner foresees multiple coalitions, with swing votes coming from different members on each issue: the balanced budget, a tax cut and stopgap Medicare reform. "The agenda they're talking about is the agenda we're talking about," he says. "It's likely it will become law." Clinton and Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, have been talking regularly. Lott was in minority leader Tom Daschle's office last week when Lott's pager went off, telling him that Clinton was calling. The Mississippian hustled back to his office to take the call in private. When he explained the delay...
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...
...forth bold proposals, especially in the area of education. President Clinton wants to guarantee that every American student will be able to afford college, and his plan of tax breaks and deductions will help to achieve that goal. Hopefully, over the next two years, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott will be able to sit down with President Clinton and work out legislation on these issues. If the American people (particularly the 51 percent who stayed home) sent any crystal-clear message in this year's elections, it was that they are sick of partisan bickering and inaction...