Trent Lott: “If I may inquire of the Senator from Connecticut, is he proposing that we go ahead and accept this on a voice vote?”

Quit campaigning, quit having press conferences, sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

I wish to make some opening comments about what happened here and make a plea to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but particularly my own side of the aisle, that we not object to going to consideration of Amtrak legislation. I…

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…

Judge Southwick was awarded the Judicial Excellence Award by the Mississippi State Bar Association, and he was rated not just well qualified but unanimously well qualified by the American Bar Association. This is supposed to be the gold…