Word: trent
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...Trent Mills, Member of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Helping the band’s cause is a set of compelling performances from vocalist Puciato, who possesses a legion of voices. Sometimes, he sounds like Trent Reznor at his most pathetic, at others, like Living Colour’s Corey Glover at his most electric. Puciato’s unmelodic side has variety too—he yells, he whines, he screams, and he screeches. Either by luck or good taste, Puciato manages to avoid indulging in the atavistic grunting of death metal...
...because various congressional leaders fired one or the other in frustration. Dove served under Republicans from 1981-87, when he was fired by Robert Byrd after Dems took control. Frumin ran things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when he was fired by Trent Lott over his advice on the budget resolution. Lott reinstalled Frumin - making him the only parliamentarian to be appointed by both parties - who then stuck to Dove's recommendations. "I've known Alan very well for a very long time," says Dove, who now teaches at George Washington University and practices...
...blocks away, former Republican Senate leader Trent Lott has set up a lobbying shop with former Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat. Florida Democrat Bob Graham left Congress in 2005 and joined with retired Republican Senator Jim Talent of Missouri to work on a national commission on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. On Thursday, Feb. 18, President Obama announced that former Republican Senator Alan Simpson would join with former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, to lead a commission on tackling the deficit...
...that changed when Bill Clinton took office. With the GOP no longer controlling the White House, a new breed of aggressive Republicans - men like Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - hit on a strategy for discrediting Clinton: discredit government. Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate. Historically, filibustering had been rare. From the birth of the Republic until the Civil War, the Senate witnessed about one filibuster per decade. As late...