Word: trent
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WASHINGTON: Suddenly, there is hope for the Senate. Standing together in front of a bank of microphones, Majority Leader Trent Lott and his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, took turns assuring reporters they were doing their best to bring bipartisanship back from the brink in time for the trial. Both men were optimistic about a full Senate get-together Friday morning, but the sticking point still stuck -- Daschle held firm to his caucus's stand against witnesses, while Lott refused to rule them out. The "98 other senators" that Lott referred to so ominously will have a lot to talk about...
WASHINGTON: The 106th U.S. Senate wasn't even a day old when its bipartisan facade began to crack. Majority Leader Trent Lott, his trial-in-a-week plan in tatters, announced that the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton could take at least three weeks -- witnesses included -- and "could very well take longer than that." Minority Leader Tom Daschle pledged a "universal, unanimous" Democratic opposition to calling witnesses. Which means that Lott has a lot more compromising...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott is looking for a way to forestall a long and painful impeachment trial, as President Clinton strolls the beach at Hilton Head. Lott has moved beyond his quick-trial-no-witnesses formulation to a new idea for an opening trial phase that would let a simple majority of Senators determine whether a full trial should be held. Under the plan, the House impeachment managers and the White House defense would briskly present their cases under the eye of Chief Justice Renquist for three or four days, after which the Senate would vote on whether...
...White House, of course, is more than willing to waive its right to face its accusers and fall in behind Lott. "We're closer to where Trent Lott is," one staffer told the New York Times, in what had to be the understatement of the winter. But Lott may not be there for long. "He's going to hear it from conservatives who want a full-blown trial," says Carney. "Clearly, he's floating a trial balloon, and seeing how long it stays afloat." A few weeks is all he needs...
...outcast, and he needs money." Carney says there's always a chance that McCain could hit it off with the public and "catch a wave" in the primaries. But the realities are that he'd be a lot better off if he'd gotten that soft-money ban past Trent Lott last spring. Anyone need a Vice President with no vices...