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...Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted in as minority leader over Connecticut's Christopher Dodd. On the other side of the aisle, veteran Senate Republican whip Alan Simpson of | Wyoming was edged out by Mississippi's Trent Lott for the party's No. 2 leadership spot, while Kansan Bob Dole was unsurprisingly elected majority leader...
Mississippi GOP Sen. Trent Lott, an ideological ally of future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, a moderate peacemaker, won election to key Senate posts today, each by a one- vote margin. Lott became Senate GOP Whip, unseating veteran Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), incoming Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard...
...elevation of Lott is "Newt Gingrich winning another election," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, who sees presidential politics at play: Lott is a "stalking horse" for Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who's expected to be a Dole rival for the 1996 GOP presidential nomination. "As long as he has to turn over the keys to Lott, it's going to be difficult for (Dole) to leave (D.C.) while he runs for president," she says. As for the Dems: "Dodd was definitely going to put a harder edge on their message." But the more moderate Daschle has a problem...
...Republican attempt to fill the health care reform vacuum as Democrats' bills flag has run into troubles of its own. The Congressional Budget Office announced a minimalist plan by House Republican Leader Bob Michel of Illinois and Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi could have the unintended consequence of raising the cost of standard insurance plans, even threatening their existence...
When BOBBY RAY INMAN withdrew himself from consideration for Secretary of Defense, he cited columnist William Safire and Senator Bob Dole, among others, as the causes of his vexation. But there was one antagonist he didn't mention: Senator TRENT LOTT. A source familiar with Inman's thinking says Lott was one of the chief reasons why Inman pulled out; he believed the Mississippi Republican was marshaling forces on the Senate Armed Services Committee against him. Lott, however, says he was for Inman all along...