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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday the GOP will investigate accusations of illegal financial contributions to the Democrats...
Mississippi--home of the blues...but things are getting better. And not the least for Republicans--Senator Trent Lott is Senate Majority Leader, Senator Thad Cochran heads two Senate agriculture committees--and farming is key in Mississippi--Haley Barbour is G.O.P. chairman, and Representative Roger Wicker was the first president of the Republican class of 1994. For a state with only five congressional districts, Mississippi packs a good deal of political wollop. There is also drama: a party-switching incumbent in the Fourth, an open race in the Third, and two African American firsts--Danny Covington in the Second...
Pickering, who spent four years as a legislative aide to now-majority leader Trent Lott, makes no bones about his ties to Mississippians in power--including Lott, G.O.P. chair Haley Barbour and Senator Thad Cochran. But Pickering is also keen to make his mark as his own man. Though not afraid to stake out a position on issues--he is pro-life, anti-gun control, supports a balanced-budget amendment, Dole's tax cut, welfare reform and the military's ban on homosexuals--he considers the TIME/CQ questionnaire too hypothetical to answer...
CHARLES PICKERING JR. Republican--Mississippi 3rd Pickering won his race by a commanding 25-point margin, aided by his political ties to power brokers like Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott...
...spend more time beating up on welfare than figuring out how you're going to get these people covered.... When you go down there [to Washington] the first vote you cast will be for [Senate Majority Leader] Trent Lott," Kerry said...