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While McCain has reached across the aisle, some Republicans grouse that TRENT LOTT can't reach across his own party. Lott responded last Friday by giving a new leadership post to moderate ARLEN SPECTER but may face a fight to keep his job next year...
...what's in my heart and mind," Jeffords replied, and that's all he would say. He walked out. But Roberts knew what it meant. He found majority leader Trent Lott and warned him that "it's pretty doggone serious." Lott had been getting similar reports and sounded the alarm to the White House and the Senate's G.O.P. leadership. But he was too late. The defector had already slipped past the gate...
...Singing Senators" can finally be declared dead. What might be greeted with much rejoicing in elite music departments is a real blow to Republican clubs and Shriners everywhere who are now scrambling for replacement acts. But the passing of the a cappella group that also included GOP Senators Trent Lott and Larry Craig offers huge upside potential for Orrin Hatch: The Utah Senator was never invited into the quartet, but his dreamy spiritual hymns can now fill the vacuum of the post S-Squared...
...which kind of environment is it entering? Supply-side energy policy won't run into much trouble with the pragmatist Democrats with oil-drenched Breaux at their head, or even the Gephardt crowd, because it's good for labor. But surely it'd rather have George W. Bush and Trent Lott setting the pace...
...stakes couldn't be higher. The Republicans and Majority Leader Trent Lott now control the Senate because Vice President Dick Cheney casts the tie- breaking vote. But 98-year-old Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who spends many weekends in the hospital, is looking increasingly frail. The governor from his state is a Democrat and likely to appoint a Democrat to fill the seat if Thurmond leaves early. That would mean the Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, making Sen. Tom Daschle the majority leader...