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...another. The soul-searching has ended, and no one sped the change more than Ickes. Last week, backed by Mrs. Clinton, he worked out the arrangement by which Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Don Fowler, a longtime party operative from South Carolina, will take over as co-chairmen of the party this week. Dodd will be the outside man, talking on television, taking on Newt Gingrich and defending the President on Whitewater, as necessary. Fowler, a close friend of Ickes', will try to resurrect the Democratic National Committee, which is a nightmare to manage and is $5 million...
...with the members of the ancien regime was startling. The Republicans of the 104th Congress are largely white, male and strikingly young. The white males among the devastated Democratic ranks are older and tired looking. As Gingrich prepared to give his surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic committee chairmen -- among them former Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton of Indiana -- paced the back aisles, pale ghosts of caucuses past. One chose to look at the bright side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they didn...
...popular new reforms made House members subject to the same employment laws imposed on all other Americans. But other changes in rules, though more arcane, are just as crucial and welcome: among them, eliminating three committees and 25 subcommittees, cutting the size of committee staffs by a third, limiting chairmen to six years on the job and the Speaker to eight. The Democrats were skeptical. "Eliminating the Merchant Marine Committee? Big deal!" scoffed Charles Schumer of New York...
...Gingrich, however, the most significant effect of the new measures is that they have restored to the Speaker much of the power that had made its way into the hands of willful and independent committee chairmen. Under the old system those chairmen seemed destined to rule their baronies for life. Torn between the demands of the Speaker and those of his chairman, a lowly Congressman had no choice but to side with the one who could make his life more miserable -- and that was rarely the Speaker. As Speaker, Gingrich appoints all chairmen, and from the outset he demonstrated that...
...changing how Congress does business, starting with cutting the number of committees and their staffs by one-third. From there, in a series of rapid-fire votes with 20-minute intervals of debate, the House will put new budget procedures into place; put six-year term limits on committee chairmen; ban members from voting by proxy at committee sessions they do not attend; require committees to open their meetings to the public; require a three-fifths majority to approve tax increases; hire an outside auditor to hunt out waste, fraud and abuse; and pass a bill requiring Congress to live...