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...Some in the GOP are not happy. "Border security is not the end of the story," says Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. "Most people in the country are still concerned and think we should act on [immigration reform], and it contributes to the impression that we're not doing our job. We need to do more than just provide funds for fencing." But if anyone does bring up other parts of the debate between now and November, you know how they're going to get handled. Senate majority leader Bill Frist was asked on Wednesday if he would support more programs...
...preparation for her Senior-Prom night, Leah Lott performed the traditional rituals: she got her nails done, she had her sister do her makeup, and she even took a trip to the spray-tanning parlor. Later that evening, she and her boyfriend, Chris Raffo, took pictures at his parents' house. But instead of joining the rest of her classmates at Pearl River Central High School, in Carriere, Miss., for their last big hurrah, Lott and Raffo dined in an Italian restaurant and drove to New Orleans for a quiet evening in the French Quarter. Lott, 18, had desperately wanted...
...year-old girl to date a guy a few years older. Dehnicke says he consults the parents of any student who wants to bring a date older than 20 to the prom. "If the parents are comfortable with it, I say O.K." Such a policy would have let Lott celebrate her big night with her schoolmates. Lott's and Raffo's parents asked the school board to let their kids attend the dance together. "His intention isn't to drink or bring drugs to the prom," says Nancy Raffo of her son, who is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq...
...That turned a hearing that had caused much anticipation in Washington into a bit of a bust. An hour into the Senate hearing, almost half of the members of the public in the audience had left; even Senator Trent Lott walked out, to return only near the very end. Hayden was so dull at one point that many in the room were listening more closely to the Fox TV correspondent who had forgotten to close the door to his broadcast booth and whose reports could be heard by almost everyone in the room. The Senators doing the questioning were...
...which would have spent more than $200 million to connect two virtually uninhabited areas in Alaska - Coburn now has his eye on a bunch of projects inserted in this bill by two of the most experienced and powerful men on Capitol Hill, Mississippi Republican Senators Thad Cochran and Trent Lott. And while Lott and Cochran won a vote last week to keep in the bill $700 million for a railroad in Mississippi damaged by the hurricane that has already been rebuilt (a project dubbed the "Railroad to Nowhere" by critics), the Senate rejected $15 million for a program to promote...