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...been in the Senate only since 1995. Frist wants to begin by quickly finishing the appropriations bills stalled last year and passing legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the nation's 8.5 million jobless, a measure that, because it benefits many minorities, could begin repairing the Lott damage. After that, Bush wants to push for more tax breaks for investors and middle-and upper-income earners and for the Medicare reforms Frist previously championed, which rely more on the market to provide benefits. But Frist has little experience, for example, collecting the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster...
...little from Bush's tax cuts compared with the wealthy. Senator Ted Kennedy hopes to force Republicans to vote on civil rights--related measures like affirmative action and an increase in the minimum wage. With the White House no longer revisiting the Appeals Court nomination of Charles Pickering, a Lott favorite blocked by Democrats in 2001, Democrats are readying battles against two other Appeals Court nominees opposed by civil rights groups: Jeffrey Sutton, a pro--states' rights attorney, for the 6th Circuit in Ohio, and Terrence Boyle, a Jesse Helms protege, for the 4th Circuit in Virginia...
Even some Republicans are prepared to test how much compassion Frist and Bush want to restore. Before the Lott fiasco, Ohio Republican Senator Mike DeWine couldn't get his G.O.P. colleagues interested in a measure he co-sponsored with Senator Hillary Clinton that would force pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs for their effects on children. DeWine hopes to get a better reception this year. "It's the type of legislation," he argues, "that shows we're a caring party...
...Republicans in the Senate are about as unified as a Balkan parliament. Moderates like Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee are always in danger of defecting to the Democrats. Mavericks like Senator John McCain will constantly stray off message. Though Frist's voting record is practically identical to Lott's, conservatives distrust him as a latecomer to their causes. Emboldened by G.O.P. control of both houses and the fact that Jan. 22 marks the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, antiabortion activists want to move quickly to pass new restrictions on the procedure. Frist would rather...
...White House wanted Frist as majority leader because it thinks it can control him better than it did Lott. But any sign of manipulation could backfire. "The Senate is very jealous of its independence," explains a G.O.P. Senator. "They don't want the White House kicking them around." Frist faces a balky group of G.O.P. committee chairmen. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, a Lott ally who chairs the Appropriations Committee, may move slower on spending bills and lard them with more pork than Frist or Bush wants. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, who has long lusted after the majority leader...