Word: lotte
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Senate Republican leader Trent Lott was in Times Square last Monday morning, punching the button to open NASDAQ trading, when a now familiar image of smoke rising from rubble flashed across a nearby bank of television screens. "Is that Afghanistan?" Lott aide Ron Bonjean whispered to the NASDAQ official standing next to him. "No," came the answer. "It's Queens...
...have proposed a host of bills to fix that, by giving Amtrak and the states anywhere from $20 billion to $70 billion in tax-exempt bonds and loan guarantees. But despite a diverse coalition of passenger-rail supporters, from Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to his Republican counterpart Trent Lott, it's unlikely that Amtrak will control all the funding or that it will survive much longer in its current form...
...edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have not been secure. We are not secure...
...edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have not been secure. We are not secure...
...Wednesday morning, as President Bush was preparing to leave town for the Asian economic summit, he had breakfast with Lott, Daschle, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The five men have got chummier these past weeks. They had conspired to isolate the hotheads and slowpokes in both parties and move legislation for the war on terrorism with what for Washington was record speed. Daschle recounted what he had learned, including the possibility of spores spreading through the mail system to the House side of the Capitol, three blocks away. The men discussed the merits of shutting...