Trent Lott: “Senators Bond and Pryor have filed amendments to this section of the bill dealing with 2 important issues and I want to…”

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.

I think if they would go back to the old way of getting things done, carefully and systematically, would really help them.

My recommendation to the Congress and to the president would be, quit campaigning, quit having press conferences. Sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.