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Overheard: A Lott of Moderates

By Roll Call Staff
Posted September 29, 2015 at 4:39pm

“I am an establishment moderate. When the hell did that happen?”  

— Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., on Tuesday at the Capitol .


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