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Vermont Biz
February 18, 2018
Majority Leader Trent Lott called Jeffords' decision to leave the Republican Party a “coup of one” and the “impetuous decision of one man to undermine our democracy.” But all across America Jeffords' decision to leave the Republican Party and give control of the Senate to the Democrats was seen as aÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 15, 2018
Major lobbyists and groups contracted by Prudential include former Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Breaux (D-La.) at Squire Patton Boggs, the Raben Group, Baker & Hostetler and Invariant, formerly known as Heather Podesta + Partners. Prudential has also hired the firm of Brian Ballard, a prominentÃÂ ...
Hattiesburg American
February 3, 2018
The Hattiesburg Alumni Chapter and the University of Southern Mississippi Chapter of Kappa Iota of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. hosted the annual Founders' Day Program on Saturday at the Trent Lott Center on Southern Miss' Hattiesburg campus. The highlight of the program was the Coca-ColaÃÂ ...
gulflive.com (blog)
January 31, 2018
As a continuation of District 4 Supervisor Troy Ross's speech on last year, expansion of the Trent Lott Airport is a way Bosarge said more businesses could frequent Jackson County. "Economic times are getting better around the country and I feel we are in a prime position to take advantage of the upswingÃÂ ...
Bloomberg BNA
January 29, 2018
Republicans need to get over their fear that they'll pay at the polls if they back gas tax increases at the pump, says former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). Any plan to improve the nation's infrastructure will require a lot of money to be effective and a gas tax increase is a proven way to raiseÃÂ ...
Garden & Gun Magazine
January 19, 2018
Our former senator Trent Lott, who was born in the hills and raised on the coast (and who, in later years, attended the picnic), once described my fellow tribe members as people who read the New Yorker. Now, I happen to be crazy about Trent and he knows it, and when he uttered that line, in a British accent no less, I got hisÃÂ ...
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
January 16, 2018
“I think part of the problem is that now people are getting too much information and it confuses them and they don't know how to decipher the true and the fake,” said Trent Lott, a former Senate Republican leader from Mississippi who's worked in Washington for nearly half a century. He isn't fond of Trump'sÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
January 16, 2018
John Warner, the committee's chairman, held four days of hearings in the state during a congressional recess. With no significant evidence produced, Senate Democrats rallied around Landrieu and attempted to use parliamentary measures to block the investigation. Majority Leader Trent Lott countered byÃÂ ...
WTOP
January 15, 2018
“I think part of the problem is that now people are getting too much information and it confuses them and they don't know how to decipher the true and the fake,” said Trent Lott, a former Senate Republican leader from Mississippi who's worked in Washington for nearly half a century. He isn't fond of Trump'sÃÂ ...
Fauquier Times
January 12, 2018
I write to you in a spirit of respectful and sincere concern. My father and his Rotarians were the citizen-nucleus in Jackson County, Mississippi, who urged a young Trent Lott, and then drafted him with financial support, to run as a Republican for Congress. In the 1960's Rep. Lott lead the Southern exodusÃÂ ...
Mississippi State Newsroom
January 12, 2018
The University of Southern Mississippi's Trent Lott National Center for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship is the catalyst for a university-wide focus on economic development service and research. The Center works with public entities, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals to planÃÂ ...
Fox Business
January 4, 2018
Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) discusses why Republicans, going into the 2018 midterm elections, need to be able to more effectively communicate their ... Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) is urging the leadership of the Republican Party to use the mainstream media as a method to pushÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
January 1, 2018
Marie is a consultant to the campaign and will continue to serve as Finance Director. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Arkansas. She also served as Deputy Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. Still seeking a comment from the governor on hisÃÂ ...
Hattiesburg American
December 28, 2017
After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work for Trent Lott, first for nine months while he was a congressman and then for three years as he held Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat. "I did have an interest in public service and trying to make your community better," McGee said. "I think everyone has aÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 21, 2017
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said McConnell will have to keep a close eye on Collins next year, when the Senate GOP majority will shrink to 51 because of the election of Doug Jones (D) in Alabama this month. "I used to have to work on her all the time," he said. "You don't wait to talkÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
December 21, 2017
Thad Cochran first went to Congress in 1972, riding on the broad Mississippi coattails of Richard Nixon, alongside fellow Ole Miss cheerleader Trent Lott. Six years later, he became the first statewide Republican winner since Reconstruction, succeeding veteran segregationist Democrat Jim Eastland andÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
December 18, 2017
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, smiles as she is followed by former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, who is visiting the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 14, 2017. Sen. Susan Collins cast her vote in favor of the recent tax reform bill. The decision sparked outrage among some Mainers. A few wentÃÂ ...
Pew Research Center
December 13, 2017
Trent Lott, who had resigned the previous December. When Lott was re-elected in 2006, he took nearly 64% of the vote, but only about 611,000 Mississippians cast ballots that year. In the special election to choose Lott's successor, twice as many people voted; Republican Roger Wicker won with 55% of theÃÂ ...
Southern Miss Now
December 7, 2017
USM created its Small Business Development Center through a partnership with the Small Business Administration, the Mississippi Small Business Development Center Network, the University of Mississippi, the Trent Lott National Center, and the College of Business at USM. The MSBDC includes nine ...
Mental Floss
December 6, 2017
When cheerleading was “born” on November 2, 1898, it looked a lot different than it does today. There were no tiny outfits, no wild stunts and—surprise!—no women. University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell rallied a football crowd with the ad-libbed cheer, "Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah!
Morning Consult
December 6, 2017
Some viewers at the time noted that those names sounded suspiciously like two of the most prominent conservatives during the movie's May 1999 debut – then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and deposed House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). “The prequel trilogy was more overtly political, ...
The Sun Herald
December 4, 2017
Lobbyists are doing a brisk business in South Mississippi, with hundreds of millions in oil spill damages being divided up, and Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich wants the city to be prepared. Gilich will ask the Biloxi Council on Tuesday to hire Keith Heard, former chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran ...
Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat
December 1, 2017
The Lott Institute, established by former United States Senator Trent Lott, was designed to further develop the students' critical thinking skills and knowledge of current events and policies. The aim of the two-week Institute was to cultivate and inspire honest, compassionate, and responsive leaders who ...
The Sun Herald
November 20, 2017
... Trent Lott, Sarah Bailey Thomas and Dr. Calvin Huey. The images are black and white, and they make an impression. “Don't you love them?” Coats asked. “We have really cool people from Pascagoula.” This is just round one of the faces. Coats said, “We want to plaster Pascagoula with famous people.”.
ReporterNews.com
November 15, 2017
It wasn't that long ago that a Republican president (George W. Bush) forced a Senate majority leader (Trent Lott) out of his leadership position ...
The Sun Herald
November 15, 2017
Trent Lott International Airport runway improvements for $6.85 million — to enhance economic development and support existing industry in ...
KSDK
November 14, 2017
It wasn't that long ago that a Republican president (George W. Bush) forced a Senate majority leader (Trent Lott) out of his leadership position ...
WBIR-TV
November 14, 2017
It wasn't that long ago that a Republican president (George W. Bush) forced a Senate majority leader (Trent Lott) out of his leadership position ...
The Hill
November 13, 2017
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) keenly observed that there are “only two rules in the U.S. Senate — exhaustion and ...
CNBC
November 10, 2017
Commentary by Trent Lott, a former Senate Majority Leader and senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and Jason Grumet is president of ...
Lewiston Sun Journal
November 9, 2017
Circumstances have changed since Republican senators elected Sen. Trent Lott as their Majority Leader 10 days after the November ...
Fayetteville Observer
November 7, 2017
Jesse Helms and as counsel and advisor for former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. He previously served in the Navy Reserve and is an ...
Lewiston Sun Journal
November 7, 2017
Trent Lott put his foot in his mouth, but shouldn't be forced to ... Voters in Mississippi first sent Republican Trent Lott to Congress in 1972, where ...
World Trade Online
November 7, 2017
Two former Senate majority leaders, Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Trent Lott (R-MS), will co-chair a “U.S.-Mexico Task Force” launched this week in ...
The Sun Herald
October 31, 2017
A study by the Trent Lott National Center at the University of Southern Mississippi found there are about 8 percent fewer jobs on the Coast now ...
Politico
October 31, 2017
“Firms are going to be even more careful than they have been in the past in the foreign lobbying arena,” said Trent Lott, the former Senate ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 22, 2017
Basically, it boils down to something as easy as herding cats, as former Majority Leader Trent Lott once quipped. Senators sit atop the political ...
Politico
October 18, 2017
Cochran made a career of steering federal dollars back home, working with former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) for years to ...
The Hill
October 18, 2017
... mostly those in the Senate, faced the same type of environment — and anger — from their base as the leadership of Trent Lott began to wear ...
Politico
October 18, 2017
Cochran made a career of steering federal dollars back home, working with former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) for years to ...
Daily Mississippian
October 18, 2017
Peter Hamby, head of news at Snapchat, will speak at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Overby Center. Hamby will meet with Trent Lott ...
Glamour
October 17, 2017
She got her first political experience interning for former U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R–Miss.), but in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, ...
The Hill
October 6, 2017
Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former U.S. senator, serves as a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Tags Nuclear power Energy development ...
UConn Daily Campus
October 4, 2017
Former United States Senate majority leaders Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) spoke Wednesday night at the ...
Jackson Free Press
October 4, 2017
Trent Lott, defeated social worker Kathryn Rehner in Tuesday's runoff in House District 102 in Forrest and Lamar counties. Neither candidate ...
The Intercept
September 28, 2017
Trent Lott as lobbyists to maintain the Jones Act and influence discussions on Puerto Rico reform issues. Asked for comment by The Intercept, ...
POLITICO Magazine
September 27, 2017
He is certainly the best Republican Senate leader in a generation (sorry, Bob Dole, Trent Lott and Bill Frist). The conservative grass roots, ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
December 31, 1999
So, Trent Lott saw to it that the matter was swept, quietly, under the rug. Now we have Roy Moore of Alabama, and his vote may be necessary to push through the Trump agenda on taxes, immigration and health care. Even though Mitch McConnell calls for Moore to give up his candidacy for the Senate, this ...
HottyToddy.com
December 31, 1999
After being accepted to the university's Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and Trent Lott Leadership Institute and receiving a full scholarship, it was a no-brainer. “I didn't have any apprehension, but there were a lot of people who questioned my decision because of the university's history involving ...
Scottsbluff Star Herald
December 31, 1999
2007: Trent Lott. 2007: Trent Lott. Ten years ago: Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott announced his retirement after a 35-year career in Congress. AP. 2012: Chris Christie. 2012: Chris Christie. Five years ago: New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie announced that he would be seeking re-election, so he could ...
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