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...homosexual agenda" is actually against homosexuals themselves. In fighting to limit AIDS funding and battling gay adoption and marriage, some Republicans have characterized gays as less deserving of basic rights and as a sinful, diseased threat to the American way of life. There was, of course, Senator Trent Lott's comparison of homosexuality to kleptomania. Now a coalition of Christian-right groups is running full-page ads in newspapers with the message that homosexuals are so lost it will take divine intervention for them to become normal. With plans to put the ads on TV just before the election...
More important, it is invaluable as a way of voicing an opinion without voicing an opinion. "The American People won't support ground troops," Senator Trent Lott said about Kosovo last week. What he meant was that he won't support ground troops. But it sounds so much better when the American People...
...members of the committee remain in the House. Michigan's JOHN CONYERS is the ranking Democrat on the committee. New York's CHARLES RANGEL moved to the Ways and Means Committee, where he's the ranking Democrat. Two others are in the Senate: majority leader TRENT LOTT (Nixon partisan, Clinton critic) and PAUL SARBANES (Nixon critic, Clinton ally). The fresh-faced WILLIAM COHEN won a Senate seat, published works of poetry and fiction, and is now Secretary of Defense. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN lost two Senate races and served as New York City comptroller...
WASHINGTON: Republicans were the first out the door, smiling as Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott and Dick Armey patted each other on the back for the cameras -- the budget deal is finally done, and, after legislative aides spend their weekend proofreading the bill, it will come before the House for a vote Tuesday afternoon. "Mr. and Mrs. America," boomed a suddenly populist Armey, "your surplus is intact." That was more than could be said for the Republicans' self-esteem. Although the majority party could claim a few victories, most of the spoils of these tedious negotiations have gone to the side...
...Lott was also joined by a majority of his fellow Republicans in a spate of anti-gay amendments to federal spending bills. And in one of the most inane displays of anti-gay prejudice, the Senate has refused to consider the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because he is gay and proud. Meanwhile, legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation continues to languish in committee...