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...Republican presidential primaries and still a rival today. So instead of supporting McCain-Edwards-Kennedy, Bush endorsed the more business-friendly measure sponsored by Senators John Breaux, Bill Frist and Jim Jeffords. So far, Kennedy's bill appears to have more support, though Republicans, led by minority leader Trent Lott, are introducing amendment after amendment meant to water down or even kill...
...bill isn't finished this week, majority leader Tom Daschle has threatened, he will keep the Senate in session through the July 4 recess. But Lott wants to string out the debate so HMO and insurance groups can get more attack ads on the air and G.O.P. Senators will have more time to round up votes for their poison-pill amendments. The American Association of Health Plans, for instance, has budgeted up to $5 million this year to attack the Kennedy bill, and is running a TV spot featuring a small-business owner in Texas who frets that the bill...
...Senate, Republican Leader Trent Lott has been privately fuming over White House stumbles in organizing its response to the patients bill of rights. Bush had wanted to delay considering a patient's bill to pursue other priorities like his energy plan. He could stall when Republicans controlled the Senate. White House aides got Republican Congressman Charles Norwood to hold off sponsoring in the House a measure similar to the one Sens. Ted Kennedy, John McCain and John Edwards introduced in the Senate. In exchange, Bush aides promised to negotiate a compromise with Norwood. But while they kept Norwood closeted...
...past. A week before Daschle planned to bring the Democrats' version of the patients bill to the floor, the White House still couldn't decide how it was going to attack it - whether to push for the Frist compromise measure or to side with the more partisan Nickles version. Lott was forced to stall Daschle on beginning the patients bill debate because he couldn't get Senate Republicans and the White House singing on the same sheet of music. "The White House fumbled around on what they wanted to do," griped a senior Senate GOP aide. "They supported the Frist...
...tourist destination since 1992, when gambling was legalized. An aggressive proponent of economic development, Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove has conducted a stealth campaign in recent months to convince Benson to move the Saints to his state. Sources said Mugrove and others - including former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, who is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast - have huddled with Benson to hammer out plans...