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ROBERT BYRD Bars aide's guide dog from Senate floor, but Lott wisely changes no-canines rule. Dumb deal...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Arm-twisting was in full-swing in the Senate Thursday as the long-debated global chemical weapons treaty neared a final floor vote. The White House won crucial support from a number of wavering Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, after President Clinton offered last-minute assurances that the U.S. would withdraw from the treaty if it ever becomes necessary to protect America against the spread of chemical weapons. Despite strong opposition from many of his conservative colleagues, Lott hailed the offer as an "ironclad commitment" from the White House and said the U.S. will be "marginally...
...before a crucial Senate vote on the chemical weapons treaty, Bill Clinton got backing from an unexpected source: Bob Dole. Citing alterations in the treaty language, Dole said "there are now adequate safeguards to protect American interests." Dole's support could provide crucial political cover to Trent Lott and other wavering Senate Republicans, TIME's Jef McAllister notes. "Dole has always been closer to the internationalist wing than to the isolationists that Helms has marshaled against the treaty." While White House officials hoped that Dole's endorsement would give them the needed votes, spokesman Mike McCurry said the Administration...
...conform to their ideological point of view is going to be disappointed." Just last month Hatch, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, pushed through one of President Clinton's nominees to the federal bench despite objections from doctrinaire conservatives. Even though the nominee was confirmed 76-23, Lott publicly snubbed Hatch and voted...
Easily enough, if you're Lott, who publicly derided the proposal as a "big-government program" that would never become law on his watch. And although Hatch quickly gathered seven G.O.P. co-sponsors, other Republicans whispered contemptuously about what they described as his sanctimonious air. "Hatch is not a team player," a Senate Republican grumbled. In a more public backlash, the conservative National Review recently dubbed Hatch a "Latter-Day Liberal," a play on his Mormon religion that Hatch found offensive. As the fray mounted, one of the bill's co-sponsors, Robert Bennett of Utah, dropped...