Word: contract
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich, preparing for hisfirst major "Contract With America" defeatin a term limits vote tonight, blamed Democrats who are refusing to help a divided GOP pass the measure. "Give us 60 more Republicans next year, and we'll passterm limits," Gingrich said. Even as he spoke, prominent Republican opponents of the measure were growing derisive. "If this were a trial, I'd call as my first witnesses the Founding Fathers, who directly and unanimously rejected term limits," Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) told the floor. Democrats, meanwhile, introduced an even tougher version -- knowing the GOP would...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asking national television networks to give him a half hour of free air time for an April 7 speech to outlinehis post-"Contract" agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives...
...arebuff to their colleagues in the hard-charging House, all 100 senators rejected a powerful, one-year freeze on virtually all federal regulations and passed their own moderate bill instead. In lieu of the one-year moratorium House members voted for -- part of the "Contract With America" -- the Senate version would give Congress the power to block regulations on a case-by-case basis, then scuttle rules it doesn't like by majority vote within 45 days. The message was clear: slow down. "This is a classic example of the pattern we've seen this entire session," says TIME congressional...
...House and Senate both gave overwhelming final approval to a bill that would require the Federal Government to pay the tab for many new rules and regulations it imposes upon state and local governments. The legislation will become the second provision of the G.O.P. "Contract with America" to become law if President Clinton signs it, as is expected (the first was a measure requiring Congress to abide by the labor and civil rights laws it has imposed on other employers...
...contrast, the Attorney General had good news for Transportation Secretary Federico Pena. Reno called off an inquiry that had been scrutinizing a contract won by Pena's former investment firm shortly after he became Secretary; the Justice Department had also been looking into whether the city of Denver, during Pena's mayoralty, had misused federal funds intended for the city's new airport. Reno said there was no credible evidence that Pena had violated any federal laws...