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...Nowhere" - which would have spent more than $200 million to connect two virtually uninhabited areas in Alaska - Coburn now has his eye on a bunch of projects inserted in this bill by two of the most experienced and powerful men on Capitol Hill, Mississippi Republican Senators Thad Cochran and Trent Lott. And while Lott and Cochran won a vote last week to keep in the bill $700 million for a railroad in Mississippi damaged by the hurricane that has already been rebuilt (a project dubbed the "Railroad to Nowhere" by critics), the Senate rejected $15 million for a program...
...close to the President reported that they had been consulted about a successor to McClellan. Other oft-mentioned possible replacements for McClellan are Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority and senior adviser to L. Paul Bremer III, who was the senior civilian administrator in Iraq; Trent Duffy, formerly McClellan?s deputy and now a consultant and television analyst; and Robert S. Nichols, formerly Bush?s Assistant Treasury Secretary for Public Affairs and now president and chief operating officer of the Financial Services Forum...
...faced similar reactions from classmates and friends.“People have ideas that homeschoolers are great at spelling bees and not much else,” Winston says. “I think people were surprised to see that homeschoolers are just normal kids.”Trent J. Hudson ’05, a co-founder of Homeschoolers Anonymous, agrees. “This is kind of like a social myth about the homeschoolers,” Hudson says. “Norberg’s the most outgoing, crazy, wild kid you’ll ever meet...
...Congress's loudest anti-immigrant voice, said his congressional offices in Colorado and Washington were swamped by more than 1,000 phone calls, nearly all from people furious about the protests in which demonstrators "were blatantly stating their illegal presence in the country and waving Mexican flags." Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, describing the marchers, used language usually applied to the tantrums of children: "When they act out like that, they lose me." Virgil Goode, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, said, "If you are here illegally and you want to fly the Mexican flag, go to Mexico...
...temporary worker program but one that requires illegal immigrants to leave the U.S. after working here for six years and apply for citizenship from their native country, said of the protests, "I don't think they're helpful," arguing that they will only inflame the issue. Mississippi Senator Trent Lott said that protests "make me mad," particularly when he saw that many of the flags flown at the protest were not red, white and blue, but flags of Mexico and other Latin American countries. "I don?t like it and the American people don?t like it," he said, adding...