Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newt Gingrich wants to keep it that way. The small eight-person select committee he assembled Wednesday to address the issue is built for discretion and dignity, and its Republican chairman, Christopher Cox, has already achieved in his first round of interviews a credibility level of which Dan Burton never dreamed. In the GOP, the word is out: This is a big one. Let's not fumble the ball...
Unable to get another special prosecutor to investigate President Clinton, Newt Gingrich will settle for the next best thing: A House committee. The Speaker said he'd seek (and likely get) a bipartisan panel to look into whether the President's insatiable need for cash prompted the White House to promote the export of classified missile technology to China. Both the White House and Loral, the U.S. aerospace contractor that worked with China, say they didn't give the Chinese any information they couldn't obtain by reading the latest edition of Janes...
...Burned by the embarrassing performance of Dan Burton, Gingrich is opting for California Republican Christopher Cox to head up this latest Clinton inquiry. "He's a guy who's got strong conservative credentials but is not as wild as Burton," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "Cox had been tapped last year by Gingrich to watch over Burton on the committee investigating campaign finance. So he's somebody who Gingrich trusts, though he doesn't have the stature of somebody like Henry Hyde, who's seen as a sort of sober, fair-minded judge." Nevertheless, without the unpredictable Burton...
...last week Webster Hubbell--a man who admits to having stolen from the law partners and clients who put their trust in him--was beginning to look like a victim, and Dan Burton had tossed David Bossie, his pet viper, overboard in an effort to save himself. Newt Gingrich, trying to figure out how the campaign-finance investigation could be done anywhere other than Burton's committee, may have been wondering if declaring the subject within the purview of, say, the Agriculture subcommittee on livestock, dairy and poultry would be seen as too much of a stretch. The Clinton...
...storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom Chairman Dan believes possess key knowledge of illegal foreign donations to the Clinton campaign. Now Newt Gingrich will transfer the immunity issue to a GOP-dominated committee -- and Burton lives to shoot pumpkins another...