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...bill were talking about the DiVall poll. Never mind that the survey had been partly funded by the tobacco industry and the questions had been written in a way that tarred the bill. "If this is a crisis in America," said Gramm, "America doesn't know it." Flying with Lott to Barry Goldwater's funeral, Speaker Newt Gingrich had also made it clear how desperately the House wanted to avoid a big fight with its base supporters before November...
...McConnell who was most persuasive. He told Lott that things had changed since the process had begun in April. His Senate candidates were safe; in tight Senate races, such as in North Carolina and Kentucky, defending tobacco would help more than hurt. Besides, McConnell argued, the industry was promising to run ads on behalf of G.O.P. Senators to defend them against charges that they'd killed the bill. "We can walk away from this," he told Lott...
G.O.P. Senators held a special conference in Lott's private offices Wednesday morning. From the moment Lott started the meeting, it became apparent to McCain that it had been called in order to choose a procedure for killing his bill. But McCain gave it one last try. "This has become a Republican bill!" McCain argued. "Are we going to say no to a tax cut and no to funding for the drug war? Are we going to say no to the two highest priorities in the Republican Congress?" The answer was still yes. "We're pulling it down, John," Lott...
BUILDING BRIDGES For Senate majority leader Trent Lott's hometown: a new, eight-lane span to replace an old drawbridge over the Pascagoula River. $38 million...
...bill was a White House dream: It struck a blow for teen smoking, made nice with the soccer moms, and also paid for about $10 billion of extra goodies in Clinton?s 1998 budget. It was a win-win that turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately...