Word: trent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi and a delegation of GOP congressmen met with Reagan to discuss how to marshal votes for the aid package. Lott said Reagan promised to provide details on negotiating efforts with the Sandinistas...
...which the House was supposed to debate tax reform. The White House and Democratic chiefs wanted to hold a simple up-or-down vote on the Rostenkowski bill, as well as on a Republican alternative that was given no chance of passage. At a G.O.P. strategy session, however, Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi urged, "Let's kill this snake before it gets out of the hole." On the House floor, Republicans moved to do just that by insisting that they be given the chance to vote on amendments. They were all for tax reform, they disingenuously avowed; they simply wanted...
...youth opportunity wage act of 1985" would allow employers to pay persons under age 20 $2.50 an hour or 75 percent of the adult minimum wage, whichever is less, from May to September each year. Supporters of the legislation, introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), say the bill will increase the number of jobs open to young people. Education Week...
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Listen to two young men of the baby-boom generation. "The revolution is already happening in our party," said a key campaign manager for Reagan-Bush. "Our new men are on the way. The Jack Kemps, Trent Letts, Newt Gingrichs, Vin Webers may not make it to the top in 1988. But we'll be in control. The Bob Doles, the Howard Bakers are out-through. Unless George Bush makes it, we'll elect the first President who wasn't in uniform in World War II." The second baby boomer, liberal Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer...