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...wonder Senate majority leader Trent Lott was so furious. Instead of working with his leadership to produce a Republican proposal, Hatch devised a bipartisan bill with Kennedy that Republicans will be hard pressed to oppose. Rather than create a Washington-run program, the bill gives block grants to the states to subsidize private insurance for uninsured children, pays for itself by raising taxes on cigarettes and then diverts $10 billion of the five-year proceeds to cutting the deficit. "It's good for children, it will reduce teenage smoking, and it will lower the deficit," Hatch says...
...TRENT LOTT Mr. Neat gets rolled by Dems, who manage to broaden Senate probe of campaign finance...
...pass this bill again and give it to the president, give him another chance to do the right thing," said Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon during pre-vote hearings, "because the only reason he vetoed it was because of those lies by Ron Fitzsimmons." Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said after the House vote he did not yet have enough votes in the Senate to override Clinton's promised veto. But if Fitzsimmons' admission and GOP momentum in the House sways the Senate, Clinton might be inclined to drop his threat. Considering the fact that last year's bill...
...days Reno had been meeting privately with her top lawyers to figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose...
...mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions don't apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said there were arguments that under that interpretation, "some of these coffees, some of these sleepovers" at the White House might fall outside the scope of the investigation. Expanding the investigation may prove a tough pill for everyone in Congress. While Bill Clinton may have sold seats at his weekly...