"It's time to get back to basics," said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott as he announced that he was restarting the Segregation Party along with Sen. Thurmond and Sen. Byrd. He invited others to join the new Congressional White Caucus. Many Democrats from the Northeast and West coast expressed enthusiastic support for the move, as they had long sought a way to rid their states of the few remaining conservatives. The White Caucus and the Black Caucus are exploring areas of common interest, such as providing a separate area of land as slave reparations. "40 acres and an SUV is sounding pretty good," said Jesse Jackson Jr. The caucuses are holding their meeting in separate rooms via a telephone hookup.

Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., on Capitol Hill speaking to a reporter on his way to the Colored Congressmen's rest room, said he welcomed Senator Lott's do-over try, and also wanted to use the little known and non-existent provision of the Congressional rules to demand a do-over of the recent House Democratic caucus for Minority Leader in which San Francisco Nancy Pelosi. Ford said that it was absolutely imperative that the Democrats have a genuine member of a minority group as its Minority leader.