Word: lotte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charged political atmosphere of the day, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) criticized the military action even before Clinton announced...
Asked about Lott's criticism, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, himself a former Republican senator, said" said: "I am prepared to place 30 years of public service on the line to say the only factor that was important in this decision was what was in the American people's best interests...
Indeed, while questioning Clinton's intentions is natural, it was disturbing to see Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) say he could not support the President's decision, even as he knew military action was imminent. At this time of instability, when we lack some of the support we had seven years ago, our political leaders should stand united behind the military action...
...deny San Francisco all of its federal funding for refusing to discriminate against twig-pickers. There was no anti-twig rider legislation on the D.C. Appropriations Bill. They exerted no pressure on the president to rescind employment non-discrimination for twig-picking federal workers. Trent Lott did not compare twig-picking to kleptomania. There were no "ex-twig-pickers" advertisements in The New York Times or The Washington Post. In fact, to my knowledge, no "ex-twig" ministries exist in America...
...made his mark on the House floor after-hours, when it was almost empty except for the C-Span cameras. He was a grinning nobody, the head of a band of brothers called the Conservative Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like a bunch of kids in a clubhouse with a small book of matches that they were going to light and blow up the world...