Is Trent Lott the most recent victim of an overzealous...history. The big question is not whether Trent Lott is a racist or simply a man who panders...Neither is the big question how a man like Trent Lott can become the second most powerful elected...

Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., was taken to task in a Washington Post editorial reprinted in Wednesday's Dispatch for launching a vendetta against...

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, soon to again be Senate Majority Leader, has long softened his old-fashioned conservatism with a winning smile and glib sociability...

Judging from the way Trent Lott lashed out following the Judiciary Committee's rejection of his...That was followed by the recent ouster of Mike Parker, another Trent Lott friend and Mississippian, as civilian head of the Army Corps of...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott says "there's a chance" campaign finance reform will pass Congress this year, but first he will push lawmakers to focus on...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., Friday blocked a $1.5 million request from the Judiciary Committee for its post-Sept. 11 oversight operations...

ST. PAUL -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott gave Sen. Rod Grams' re-election campaign a boost, stumping for the Minnesota Republican and touting him as a committed tax-cutter...

So there you have it, folks, the defining achievement of the Trent Lott-Denny Hastert Congress: It voted to repeal a tax most Americans never have to worry about paying. Both houses finally voted...

Southern politicians should have learned a valuable lesson from the Trent Lott debacle. But it turns out he wasn't the only one with an oversupply of hot air and a shortage of good sense. The Republican...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott accused Democrats Wednesday of an anti-Hispanic attitude as the fight intensified over proposed safety standards for Mexican...