As the majority leader, Trent Lott discovered his pragmatic side
If the Senate has a massive aid package for the International Monetary Fund during the past month, normally geknöpften-down guide the majority of the Senate cut loose with a verbal barrage aimed at Michel Camdessus, IMF managing director of the French .
“I want us to rid the head of the IMF,” said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. “It is a socialist France. Am I too obtuse?”
But just days later, the Senate approved by an overwhelming majority, the aid plan. And Lott, despite its obvious hostility towards the IMF and its leaders, 83 joined his colleagues in the back cover of $ 17.9 billion proposal (S1768).
Almost two years after the beginning of his tenure as Majority Leader, Lott, affable 56-year-old, son of a shipyard worker and a teacher, has expectations in a number of possibilities. His devotion to order and control - in its Manifesto unmussable hair, double-shirts and ironed Clutter-free-Home - has become part of Senate lore.
But the same obsessive neatnik also has a surprisingly light style of speaking, from time to time, he landed in the policy of hot water. During his attack on Camdessus has been largely unnoticed, Lott’s defense during the last years of former Air Force pilot Kelly Flinn - has been accused of adultery and lies - triggered a revolt. And Lott’s comments last month recommend Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr as a result of its probe by President Clinton knocked GOP colleagues, called it withdraws. Lott often become blurred to say, to revise or simply believes that rolling again in any hurry.
“I’m not a guy who has always been a secret,” he said recently in an interview. “I want to play my cards face-up. I try to respond openly, and every now and then me in trouble.
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