Lott to lobby for Delta deal
Two high-profile former U.S. senators — Republican Trent Lott of Mississippi and Democrat John Breaux of Louisiana — have been enlisted to push the merger of Delta and Northwest Airlines. Delta also has signed up government affairs firm Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc., packed with former Capitol Hill senior staffers, and a law firm that employs R. Hewitt Pate, who ran the antitrust division at the U.S. Justice Department from 2003 to 2005.