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Lott blocks funding over failed Pickering nomination
Senate Republican leader Trent Lott blocked a $1.5 million Judiciary Committee funding request in retaliation for Democrats killing the Pickering nomination to the Fifth Circuit. He also moved to block FCC aide Adelstein, signaling a partisan escalation in the fight over Bush judicial nominees.
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Washington
Senate
Trent Lott
R-Miss
Judiciary Committee
Lott
Federal Communications Commission
GOP
Bush
Tom Daschle
D-S.d
Latt
U.S
Charles Pickering
Court of Appeals
Pickering
Daschle
Jonathan Adelstein
FCC
Adelstein
Michael Powell
Senate Rules and Administration Committee
Mitch McConnell
House
Senate Intelligence
Patrick Leahy
Orrin Hatch
Utah
FBI
INS
Intelligence Committee
Leahy
Zell Miller
D-Ga
South
Mississippi
Miller