[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 48 (Monday, December 3, 2007)]
[Pages 1531-1532]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Senator Trent Lott's Decision Not To Seek Reelection

November 26, 2007

    For more than three decades, Trent Lott has been an outstanding 
advocate in the United States Congress for the people of Mississippi. 
With service in the Republican leadership in both the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, he has skillfully advanced legislation 
and effectively championed key principles of our party, including low 
taxes and a strong national defense.
    Trent has worked to enhance the economic vitality of our Nation and 
his home State throughout his career. By focusing on the important 
defense, transportation, infrastructure, agricultural, and educational 
needs of Mississippi, he has helped bring new development and 
opportunity to his constituents.
    Throughout his service, Trent has always been a leader, someone his 
colleagues have known they could count on to stay true to his principles 
while working cooperatively to achieve results for the American people. 
Trent enjoyed bipartisan respect because of his reverence for the 
institutions of Congress and because Republicans and Democrats knew they 
could count on him to keep his

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commitments and his word. His immense talent will be missed in our 
Nation's Capital. Laura and I wish him and his wife, Tricia, all the 
best.