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Newt's troubles will hasten the power shift from House Republicans to their counterparts in the Senate, where majority leader Trent Lott is expected to spearhead the Republican agenda in the next Congress. Since November, Lott and Clinton have several times discussed their common desire not to allow the investigations of either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform...
...Cross, insisting it's in the Gulf for the long haul, aims to raise millions more in donations. Smaller charities may want the Red Cross to spread the wealth, but "the Red Cross raised the money fair and square," says Trent Stamp, executive director of nonprofit-rating agency Charity Navigator. "We have to understand it's going to spend as it sees fit." --By Sean Gregory. With reporting by Greg Fulton/Atlanta
...Management Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President. Or was it that odd moment when he promised to rebuild Mississippi Senator Trent Lott's house--a gesture that must have sounded astonishingly tone-deaf to the homeless black citizens still trapped in the postapocalyptic water world of New Orleans. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house--he's lost his entire house," cracked Bush, "there's going...
...Base for his second trip to the disaster zone. It was better than his first on Friday. He didn't offer any untenable defenses of the federal response and he didn't say anything too off key like he did last time when he vowed to rebuild Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's home and fondly recalled his partying days in New Orleans. Bush visited victims of Katrina at a shelter near Baton Rouge, where he was joined by T.D. Jakes, the charismatic African-American religious broadcaster. The President met with emergency managers in Baton Rouge and in Mississippi as well...
...have a lot in common. Both are Texans and avid cyclists with at least a casual interest in politics. The seven-time Tour de France winner and the leader of the free world shared the trail last weekend at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. White House press secretary Trent Duffy wouldn't say whether the pair discussed politics (Armstrong opposes the Iraq war and wants more spending on cancer research), but at the end of a two-hour, 17-mile spin, Bush gave Armstrong, whom he described as "a good rider," a T shirt and suggested...