Lott to Resign by Year's End

By Erin P. Billings and David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff

Nov. 26, 2007, 8:24 a.m.

Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) will announce at noon today that he will resign his seat by the end of the year, a shocking move sources said was precipitated by a desire to spend more time with his family and a general fatigue of Congress.

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