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Trent Lott to Resign

Posted Nov 26, 07 8:17 AM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – Trent Lott, the Senate's second-highest-ranking Republican, is resigning before the end of the year, the AP has learned. He will announce the decision later today in his home state of Mississippi. The reason for the resignation is unknown. There is nothing wrong with Lott’s health, a congressional official confirmed, saying the Republican whip had unspecified “other opportunities” to pursue.

Lott was re-elected just last year and given the whip post, completing a comeback from his ignominious ouster as majority leader five years ago over racially insensitive remarks. Mississippi’s GOP governor, Haley Barbour, will appoint an interim successor to Lott, until the 2008 elections, when voters will decide who serves the balance of the term. Lott is the sixth Republican Senator to retire this year.
Source: Associated Press

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Senate Minority Trent Lott of Miss., center, accompanied by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., gestures...   (Associated Press)
Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott of Miss., right, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., meet with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct....   (Associated Press)
Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott of Miss., becomes teary-eyed on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007, after speaking to reporters after the Senate confirmed Judge Leslie Southwick to the...   (Associated Press)
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