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Symbolic Lynching Resolution Forced Concrete Political Choice

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Trent Lott (R-Miss.)

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

Jack Reed (D-R.I.)

Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)

Gordon Smith (R-Ore.)

John Sununu (R-N.H.)

Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.)

George Voinovich (R-Ohio)

The three Democrats and seven Republicans -- Crapo, Grassley, Hatch, Murkowski, Voinovich, Hutchinson and Smith -- signed on after the resolution was passed.

I was particularly eager to chat with someone from Cochran's office. Cochran told reporters earlier this week that he didn't feel he could apologize "for something I did not do."

"I don't feel that I should apologize for the passage or the failure to pass any legislation by the U.S. Senate," Cochran told the Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Miss. "But I deplore and regret that lynchings occurred and that those committing them were not punished."

As the newspaper pointed out, Cochran had previously co-sponsored measures "apologizing for the U.S. government's mistreatment of American Indians and Japanese Americans" -- neither of which he was directly responsible for.

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