Trent Lott: “I fully expect that it will be accomplished. I think maybe the Senator knows there is a Patients' Bill of Rights…”

“I fully expect that it will be accomplished. I think maybe the Senator knows there is a Patients' Bill of Rights conference that is still meeting. I think there are meetings, even today, to see if we can come to an agreement to get a bill that truly protects patients, but not just become a bill that provides more opportunities for my brother-in-law to sue people. So I am hopeful on a combination there. In fact, I discussed that with the President directly and said we would still like to see if we couldn't have some sort of a sit-down meeting and a broad, bipartisan, bicameral, ``bi- branch'' of the Government discussion and get an end result. I am still hopeful that can occur. On education, obviously, when we get to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations conference report, it is going to have funds for education in it--more funds than was requested by the administration or was in our budget resolution.”