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WASHINGTON: Suddenly, there is hope for the Senate. Standing together in front of a bank of microphones, Majority Leader Trent Lott and his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, took turns assuring reporters they were doing their best to bring bipartisanship back from the brink in time for the trial. Both men were optimistic about a full Senate get-together Friday morning, but the sticking point still stuck -- Daschle held firm to his caucus's stand against witnesses, while Lott refused to rule them out. The "98 other senators" that Lott referred to so ominously will have a lot to talk about...
WASHINGTON: The 106th U.S. Senate wasn't even a day old when its bipartisan facade began to crack. Majority Leader Trent Lott, his trial-in-a-week plan in tatters, announced that the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton could take at least three weeks -- witnesses included -- and "could very well take longer than that." Minority Leader Tom Daschle pledged a "universal, unanimous" Democratic opposition to calling witnesses. Which means that Lott has a lot more compromising...
...Conservatives would still prefer an open-ended trial," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "And Democrats want it as short as possible. Lott is still trying to land somewhere in between." So far, the new Senate looks a lot like the old House -- Republicans running the agenda, and conservatives running the Republicans. And that seemingly inexorable rightward tide has the White House betting that the long national nightmare will come with a very long coda...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott is looking for a way to forestall a long and painful impeachment trial, as President Clinton strolls the beach at Hilton Head. Lott has moved beyond his quick-trial-no-witnesses formulation to a new idea for an opening trial phase that would let a simple majority of Senators determine whether a full trial should be held. Under the plan, the House impeachment managers and the White House defense would briskly present their cases under the eye of Chief Justice Renquist for three or four days, after which the Senate would vote on whether...
...Lott's plan would allow the wavering Senate to get the trial over with quickly and push the whole complicated mess into the history books by mid-month. Since Lott already sees that the Senate is almost certain to acquit, he's eager to minimize the damage to Senate Republicans that would be caused by a prolonged march toward a Clinton victory. The President's upcoming schedule is also a strong reason to speed things up. After the State of the Union speech January 19th, a forum in which he traditionally shines, Clinton will spend time touring the country memorializing...