The Week That Was: The Republican Implosion

SENATOR TRENT LOTT, the former Republican leader, was headed out of the Capitol on Friday when he was asked to sum up a week in which Tom Delay said he would quit Congress, the House budget unraveled, the Senate immigration bill crumbled and President Bush became embroiled in the city's most famous leak probe.

Mr. Lott hopped into an elevator and gestured toward Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, a member of the current Republican leadership. "Our spokesperson will handle this response," he said, evoking laughter from reporters as the elevator doors shut.

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