Word: appointment
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...deductions should be preserved. Instead, the plan's centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter and simpler tax code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp...
What mattered, however, was the committee's decision to appoint an outside counsel to investigate whether Gingrich improperly used tax-deductible donations to fund the videotaped college course Renewing American Civilization, that he taught until earlier this year. The crowd at the Wednesday fund raiser applauded loudly when Gingrich told them the six charges had finally been resolved. As for the seventh, he said, it was a "technical'' matter. That line was echoed the next day by other members of the G.O.P. leadership. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio faxed around a 1994 letter by a former...
...Gingrich, the potentially more damaging process would be a wide-ranging probe by an independent counsel, which Democrats have urged the Ethics Committee to appoint. The Democrats turned up the pressure last week, citing the fact that four of the five Republicans on the Ethics Committee have ties to GOPAC. Last week the committee's chairman, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, acknowledged that she had participated in at least two GOPAC events, and had talked with individual GOPAC-recruited candidates on at least two other occasions. But Johnson insisted that her past involvement should not disqualify her from heading the committee...
...House Ethics Committee will appoint an independent counsel to investigate ethics charges against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The counsel will take up allegations by Ben Jones, a former Democratic Congressman from Georgia, that the Speaker's "Renewing American Civilization" college course was really a fundraising tool for Gingrich's GOPAC political action committee. TIME's Viveca Novak says the appointment could open the door to a broader investigation of the Speaker: "The outside counsel will not take the assignment without the authority to investigate anything he comes across. If, for instance, the person appointed as counsel is an expert...
Rudenstine also said he agreed with the decision of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to appoint Judith H. Kidd as the new assistant dean for public service last month...