Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and
told my son this voluntarily, �We're going to confirm your
dad by December.� The groups said, �No, not so fast�;
so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,


Charles Pickering

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