Word: gavels
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...Carolina admits to drowning her two young sons) and just plain goofy (sponsoring a bill to apply U.S. law to space colonies), Gingrich is providing the energy, imagination and confidence that, at least at this pregnant moment, seem lacking among other leaders of both parties. The new Speaker will gavel the House down to real work three weeks earlier than usual. He will move immediately to slash congressional staff and change the way it operates. He will seek speedy passage of a balanced-budget amendment, tax breaks, spending cuts and other measures the Republicans promised in their "Contract with America...
...different day," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, asNewt Gingrich, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, wielded a large, custom-made walnut gavel to begin the GOP campaign to fulfill the party's "Contract With America" today. In a 43-minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require...
...leader, but committee chairmanships would go to ranking -- and sometimes fang-baring -- Republicans. None other than Jesse Helms would run the foreign relations committee. New York's Alfonse D'Amato, who performed loudly and often during the Senate banking committee hearings on Whitewater in July, would be wielding the gavel next time...
...hearings a few days later). Several high Administration officials will probably face sharp questioning as to whether they have been telling the truth. And there could be some entertaining partisan wrangling in the House Committee between Republicans trying to pose argumentative questions and Democratic chairman Henry Gonzalez trying to gavel such queries into silence...
Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons eased into the plum job of House Ways and Means Committee chair after ex-chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted. But his hold on the gavel may be tenuous. The buzz among Democrats is that a challenge to Gibbons will be mounted in January if he fails to persuade the committee to back a version of Clinton's health-care bill before July 4 or is unable to muster credible influence when and if such a bill comes up in the full House...