[Cboldt]

-- Seems Cochran has enormous power in the senate ... --

Yes. Comes with seniority, but for the most part, Cochran has managed to fly under the radar. He was head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, plenty of muscle in the inevitable conference committees that write in all the local pork clauses. Key player in the government-crony management apparatus.

[rodguy911]

Guess Barbour and company would be desperate unless they could control what happens in the Senate. I wonder who the number two man is?

[rodguy911]

Top Senate members in seniority are Leahy,Orrin Hatch—rino,Cochran,and Carl Levin. Not much danger for wannabe lobbyists from the look of it.