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...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...
...First to get there were George W. Bush's Republican loyalists, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Majority Leader Trent Lott. We won the vote, they proclaimed, because the Senate passed by a 65-35 margin $1.3 trillion of the $1.6 trillion tax cut Bush had wanted. "I'm delighted," Cheney enthused...
...which Cheney replied, "That is my intention." And suddenly the Bush budget, which Trent Lott wants passed before senators head home for Easter recess at week's end, looked as if it was headed into a dramatic string of party-line, 51-50 votes that would at the very least make for a big tax cut and a heck of a story...
...budget time. Tax cut time. Bush time. Trent Lott wants to get his president a budget deal by Friday, and now he figures his colleagues are going to pay him back for their frivolity. McConnell's Darth Vader helmet is off; he's back to being chairman of the Rules Committee, the setter of the Senate pace. And for McCain - formerly Luke Skywalker - it's probably time to go back to being the Republican who stood next to George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention and forgot he didn't like...
...available to as many as 3 million families that currently pay no income tax, earning from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. In a rare move, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad asked Congress to pass some version of these proposals by the first week of April. Senate majority leader Trent Lott offered a more leisurely schedule, calling for their consideration as part of a multi-year tax-cut package, perhaps as soon as Memorial...