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...remiss in checking those planes for danger and researching ways to fix the tanks. According to papers released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the fuel tanks of 26 planes--13 civilian and 13 military--have blown up since 1959. By week's end frequent flyer and Senate majority leader Trent Lott pronounced himself "very nervous" and promised hearings on the topic...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott, still stung by the pelting he got from his own party for helping President Clinton pass a chemical-weapons treaty earlier this year, didn't bother to wait for negotiators in Japan to finish their work last week before declaring the deal dead. "If they come back and think we're going to go along with what they're doing in Kyoto, they've got another think coming," Lott said. That was by no means a strictly partisan assessment. Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, who backs the deal, publicly urged the Administration to hold off submitting...
...above the din is the calm, steady voice of Trent Lott, urging Clinton to "have the strength of his convictions to submit this treaty as soon as possible for the scrutiny of the United States Senate." Come into my parlor, said the spider...
...much: a rise in temperature of between 10 and 20 degrees. When: sometime before the year 2100. That's if nothing is done. And if Trent Lott has his way, nothing will be. "The Senate will not ratify a flawed climate treaty," said the majority leader Wednesday, referring to exemptions for China and other developing nations. But in the light of a century of skin cancers and shrinking coastlines, Lott's objections may seem petty. If the world's largest polluter doesn't lead by example, some might ask, who will...
...would be easy to blame the worsening situation on the Republicans. If Fred Thompson would get back to writing legislation, if Trent Lott cared a little more about his country and a little less about his party, if Jesse Helms would just get off his high horse...But the responsibility to make Washington more productive does not lie solely with the GOP. Rather than lead the Democrats back to the past, Gephardt and company must accept the potential gain of engaging in cautious cooperation with...