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Presumptive Speaker Newt Gingrich takes on added gravitas. Tom Foley, meanwhile, proves resistible...
...Washington State, Americans for Limited Terms spent $320,000 on radio and television ads attacking House Speaker Tom Foley for opposing congressional term limits. Foley was defeated by Spokane lawyer George Nethercutt...
...limited peace signal to the Clinton Administration -- "Cooperation, yes; compromise, no," -- and wasted little time in blasting "counterculture McGovernicks" and "left-wing elitists" at the White House. Among the Democratic war-horses sent out to pasture by the electorate: Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, Texas' Jack Brooks and Washington's Tom Foley, the current Speaker...
...There have been a lot of polls before elections; the only one that counts is the one that's taken on Election Day." -- Representative Thomas Foley (D- Wash...
With 14,000 absentee ballots still uncounted -- and his House Speakership down the tubes, in any case -- Tom Foley conceded Washington state's 5th Congressional District race to GOP newcomer George Nethercutt. Just 2,174 votes (or 1 percent) down, Foley, the first sitting Speaker dumped since the Civil War, chose not to wait days for the final count -- which, half-completed, favored Nethercutt 55 to 45 percent. What sunk the 15-termer? The mostly-conservative voters couldn't forgive him for joining a 1992 court battle challenging a citizen term limits initiative, ramming through President Clinton's gun-control...