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Article: LOTT: SENATE NEARS PLAN FOR LENGTHY TRIAL.(News)

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January 7, 1999
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Byline: Alison Mitchell The New York Times

Sen. Trent Lott, the majority leader, said Wednesday night that the Senate was getting ``closer and closer'' to a plan for an impeachment trial of President Clinton that could last as long as six weeks and end with an actual vote on the two articles of impeachment.

His announcement on the Senate floor, just hours after the 106th Congress convened, appeared to put an end to any hopes by Democrats and the White House for a bipartisan compromise plan that would have dispensed with a trial in little more than a week.

Hours earlier, Lott had conceded to senators that the emerging plan for the first ...

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