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Sen. Trent Lott's retirement announcement brings a close to a 35-year Capitol Hill career that saw the Mississippi legislator rise from a backbencher in the House to Senate majority leader.(The Week)(Brief article)
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December 17, 2007 |
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Sen. Trent Lott's retirement announcement brings a close to a 35-year Capitol Hill career that saw the Mississippi legislator rise from a backbencher in the House to Senate majority leader. While serving in the House minority, Lott played an important role in the ascendancy of the restive, reform-minded conservative caucus as a staunch ally of Newt Gingrich and Jack Kemp. Regrettably, in the Senate his combativeness and tenacity were more frequently employed to score pork spending for Mississippi than to advance the conservative ...
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