Word: gingriched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alabama, which will have two Republican Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, but lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down in a hotel in Atlanta long into the night as his margin slipped away hour by hour...
Nearly half the casualties came from Gingrich's militant class of 1994, who had pushed the Speaker hardest to the right and demanded the deepest cuts in popular domestic programs in their zeal for a balanced budget. Gone are at least six of 71 G.O.P. freshmen, including Dan Frisa of New York, who was defeated by Carolyn McCarthy, the widow of a victim of the Long Island Rail Road shooting, who ran on a single-issue platform: gun control...
However, a spokesperson for House Speaker Newt Gingrich (RGa.) said, "Members are free to make their own decision whether to attend the Harvard program [this year...
...subsequent battles with House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) over Medicare and social security cuts and the closure of the federal government, many voters sided with Clinton, seeing him as a grand compromiser...
...Gingrich said congressional Republicans are ready to work with a cooperative Clinton on cutting taxes and limiting the size of the government...