Trent Lott: “We have checked on both sides of the aisle and we are, I believe, clear now to accept the Inhofe amendment. I urge that…”

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.

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

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

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