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Meet the New Boss

One of the Senates quirkier traditions was inaugurated in the late 1990s by then-Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). On certain summer Thursdays, Lott decreed, members should leave their customary dark blue and gray suits at home and, as a tribute to southern fashion, instead conduct the peoples business in pale blue seersucker. Sen. Bill Frist […]