Honorable Trent Lott
United States Senator, Mississippi, Republican
Senator Lott was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988. He served as Administrative Assistant to U.S. Representative William Colmer (MI-D) from 1968 to 1972 and as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1988. He served as Senate Majority Leader from 1996 to 2001. He is the current Senate Minority Leader and a member of the Commerce Committee, the Finance Committee, and the Rules Committee. The following is from the March 13, 2002, Senate floor debate on amendments to S. 517, the National Laboratories Improvement Act.I rise in very passionate support of the Levin-Bond…
