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...forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today's announcement, press secretary Tony Blankley added perfunctorily: "He is not a candidate and doesn't plan to be a candidate...
...hold because a number of GOP holdouts still want to scale back the tax credit, while another group wants to increase the contributions that federal workers make into their own retirement funds. "We don't yet have 218 votes lined up, but we're making good progress," said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Under the compromise legislation, the tax cuts would not go into effect until after Congress passes a plan to balance the federal budget. The bill also would include a repeal of increased taxes onSocial Security benefitsand cut the capital gains...
...from Glenn Jones, the seventh-largest U.S. cable operator. The three, representatives Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.), Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and Harry Johnston (D-Fla.) filed a complaint with the House ethics committee, claiming that Jones has a vested interest in proposed congressional reforms. Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley tried to turn the tables by claiming Johnston is in a group of lawmakers who meet regularly to dig up dirt on the speaker. Gingrich previously was accused of improperly using tax-deductible donations to fund his politically-oriented college course, which airs free of charge on Jones' cable system. The fresh...
...Tony Blankley, spokesperson for Speaker ofthe House and Contract guru Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)insists the Budget Committee document is not partof the Contract with America...
...head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before those committees," explains Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley. More to the point: the only legislation Moorehead has successfully launched in recent years is a resolution declaring Snow White Week...