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...Friday, after weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the United States Senate's temporary majority leader, South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle, and interim minority leader, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, announced they had reached a power-sharing agreement designed to balance control in the evenly split chamber - and the Senate approved the pact in a voice vote the same day. Meanwhile, across the way, House Republicans were adjusting to another kind of power-sharing - within their own party...
...Senate Democrats, of course, have a lot more to lose if their Republican counterparts snub bipartisan rhetoric - although the chamber itself will be evenly divided between the parties, Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) has not expressed any interest in opening committee leadership positions to Democrats. He has said, however, that he will consider a more equitable split among committee seats themselves in order to reflect the nearly perfect balance of power. Senator Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, is less diplomatic in his dismissal of power-sharing schemes. "We're not 50 to 50," Gramm told the New York Times...
...Bill Clinton b) John McCain c) Trent Lott d) Ted Kennedy...
...TRENT LOTT Dude, you're a majority leader in name only when the Senate is split 50-50. Get ready to play well with others...
...fear that such a war would destroy them as well as Bush. In the 50-50 Senate, the decision about which way to go will be made by Tom Daschle, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Democratic leader. While bitter power-sharing negotiations continue between Daschle and majority leader Trent Lott, revenge fantasies focus on Cheney, the tie-breaking Republican vote. The Vice President-elect now has two offices on Capitol Hill, the traditional one on the Senate side and a cubbyhole on the House side that Hastert gave him as a courtesy. Democrats are talking about making Cheney come...