Honorable Trent Lott
United States Senate, Mississippi, Republican
Senator Lott was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1988. He chairs the Committee on Rules and Administration, and also sits on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on Finance, and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the March 6, 2006, Senate floor debate on S. 2349, the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act. I think one of the important things to note at the very beginning is that this legislation from both the Rules Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental…
