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...The 11-man piece is set to an episodic score by Ryan Lott and performed on a bare stage adorned with parchment lanterns....
...Many experts expected Mr Trump to blame others, including Mr Ryan for the failure to pass the measure — which has been dubbed both Trumpcare and Ryancare....
...“The number one thing that people care about is growing the economy and jobs,” said Mr Lott. “Healthcare doesn’t do that.”...
...But Mr Ryan said he had been reassured by a private conversation on Monday with John Kelly, secretary for homeland security....
...Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate majority leader, said the defeat was a “blow to governing” that would complicate efforts to push ahead with tax reform....
...Trent Lott, former Republican Senate leader who is now at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, has warned that a major shift in attitudes is needed among politicians....
...Speculation is growing that Mr Ryan may not stay on after the election....
...Trent Lott, the former Republican senator and majority leader who served as whip in both houses of Congress, argues that Trump and Ryan made a mistake....
...More and more politicians, including Paul Ryan, the new Republican Speaker of the House, and Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, sleep in their offices partly to avoid putting down roots in Washington...
...But the US trio — originally a solo vehicle for frontman Ryan Lott, soundtrack composer and occasional collaborator with Sufjan Stevens — prove too bombastic over the long haul....
...“We’re not in a tech hub, in London, or Bristol or Exeter for that matter,” says Ryan Anderson, one of Magicseaweed’s three founders. “We’re just in this sleepy little town....
...“I identify with the ancient nation of Shakespeare and Dickens and Orwell and, for that matter, Linton Kwesi Johnson, the Specials, Zadie Smith and Steve McQueen,” writes the novelist Tim Lott....
...Last weekend on MSNBC Trent Lott was one of the first Republican senators to ask: “The question is should he be the deputy chief of staff under the current circumstances?”...
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