Trent Lott: “then I will take advantage of this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized for 4 minutes.”

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

Regarding the Amtrak legislation, work was done on Friday and it is being worked on now by our staffs. We had additional amendments that were filed this afternoon and we are going through them. In the meantime, we have cleared on both…

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.