The Senate leader said legislators would rush through a bill to allow a referendum to be held this autumn.
Lindsey also said the alternative economic stimulus plan unveiled by Daschle in his speech is further evidence that the Senate leader wants to raise taxes.
You've got the Democratic leader in the Senate, the Minority Leader Harry Reid, saying that he'll filibuster any bill that Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader who we talked about earlier, introduces that would focus only on enforcement.
Over at the Senate leader's office, where polls are watched very closely, they knew something was up when the July polls were tallied: For the first time, the president had negative responses of 40 percent or more on his job approval, his handling of health care, the economy and the stimulus package.
Now, there are others, though, in the party who think that the way to handle this issue to play to the most conservative elements in the party, and that includes the Senate leader, Bill Frist, who is running for president, and he is opposing the president and going with the harshest immigration bill here.
And we've heard recently some intimations from the Senate Majority Leader and from the Speaker of the House -- or the Senate Minority Leader and the Speaker of the House that they think we should do a payroll tax, but the question is what price will they extract from the President in order to get it done.
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You should ask the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, do they believe President Reagan was wrong when he said that back in 1985, saying essentially word for word what the President said today?
For those of us who were reporters in the 1990s, during the health care debates then, we keenly remember the fact that there was a bill put forward by a Republican member of the Senate, endorsed by the Republican leader of the Senate and numerous other Republicans in the Senate that contained within it this individual mandate.
He won a Senate seat in 1986 and was the party's leader in the Senate from 1994 to 2004, serving as majority leader when the Democrats were in control of the Senate from 2001 to 2003.
The unheralded conversation between the Senate majority leader and the corporate executive with close Democratic ties demonstrated the bipartisan reach and the behind-the-scenes lobbying tactics of the nation's biggest entertainment company.
And I think -- again, I would point you to comments made by the House and Senate leaders, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader, about their desire to avoid a shutdown.
But if those who want a little sun to shine into the crannies of these secretive groups could get around Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader who opposed the provision, they couldn't maneuver around Tom DeLay, the House Republican whip who has close ties to three such outfits.
So I hope that that's just the sign that the Senate majority leader is still learning the ropes of his new job.
And I think that, as we said in the past, that the markets would react badly, as Ronald Reagan said in 1983 to the Senate majority leader, that even the prospect of default would be viewed very negatively by the markets.
This week, the Senate majority leader hopes to bring some kind of an immigration bill to the floor in the Senate, but we don't know that they really have a package deal yet.
He's got some real topics on his plate that both begin - immigration and Iraq -as the senate minority leader, and he is now serving two different constituencies - his fellow Republicans in the Senate and his voters in Kentucky.
Mr. DIONNE: Well, I think you already saw some of that today with Nancy Pelosi - Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, now the majority leader, writing this letter to President Bush.
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Mr Clinton himself is wooing influential congressmen, such as Trent Lott, the Republican Senate leader, with reassurances that he is pushing hard for the China bill.
In the civil rights debate, President Lyndon Johnson depended on the Senate minority leader, Republican Everett Dirksen of Illinois, to deliver the votes needed to end a filibuster in 1964.
Political wrangling guaranteed a diversity of strongly held opinions. (The president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader were each asked to appoint three members.) In the end, the group had four members with direct or indirect ties to the gambling industry and five members with no such ties.
Yet the president has an important ally in Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, who was in Mexico this week to drum up support for the plan.
As for scandal, the Republican leader in the Senate, Bill Frist, is under investigation for insider dealing and the House leader, Tom DeLay, has been indicted on charges to do with campaign fraud.
The new leader of the Senate, Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), said that Congress will eventually be forced to revisit the bill, which he argues is too large, too generous to the rich and too expensive.
But the Senate Republican leader made a point of refusing to rule it out.
Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, tried to force an immediate vote on the motion.
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If the Democrats pick up six seats, Mr Daschle will become the Senate majority leader.
But just last month, the Senate Republican leader objected to a vote on his confirmation yet again.
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But Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader and so the master of its agenda, has a different answer.
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