Don't you mean Trent Lott, rather than Phil Gramm?
Everything that I posted is from my memory of what was posted on this forum and as you know this forum covered the Clintons like no other.
Lott was leader of his caucas but Gramm was the senator who was appointed to work out the rules of the trial. Hyde and all those on the impeachment committee that tried the case in the Senate felt that it was Gramm who sold them out by limiting the rules of the trial. They were prepared to try Clinton under a different set of rules and learned late in the process that Gramm had been the one from the Republican Senate who agreed to limiting the rules.