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...Oracle and Netscape--the ABM (Anybody But Microsoft) coalition's holy trinity--have emerged as a potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates, who nonetheless knew enough to call the G.O.P. a pawn of the religious right...
...paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them. But she warned that Republicans wanted a commitment (spell that money) from the coalition before they go out on a limb. "Get off your butts, get off your wallets," Harned quoted Senate majority leader Trent Lott as saying...
After the memo was obtained by the New York Times, Harned said she had no knowledge that Lott actually said those words. Still Lott is against legislation by body parts, not wanting Clinton to achieve by salami slice what he couldn't with the health-care bill. Lott named his meeting to fight the piecemeal bills "Clinton Care Returns: The Trojan Horse Strategy...
Jiang met House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other Congressional leaders over breakfast in Washington...
...aides are urging him to keep cuts low this time. To that end, chief of staff Erskine Bowles has prepared a relatively minuscule list of items on which to use the veto. One item curiously absent from the short list: the AEGIS cruiser set to be built in Trent Lott's home town in Mississippi. Clinton has made his objection to such blatant pieces of pork clear ? but with so much else on his plate right now, the President may have difficulty doing anything about that...