Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whenever Florida Republican Joe Scarborough encountered House Speaker Newt Gingrich this winter, he found himself thinking of Richard Nixon as rendered by Oliver Stone. In one scene a vehement Pat Nixon goes over to Dick and grabs him by the lapels. "Dick, you want them to love you, but they never will," she says. The conservative sophomore had wanted to tell this story to Newt for months, to convince him that efforts to make friends with moderates and liberals both in Congress and outside were wrongheaded and ill-fated. Finally Scarborough couldn't help himself: every act of Congress seemed...
...quarters of the Capitol the question is not if Gingrich will fall but when. "This is the night of long knives," says a Republican House member. In the pages of the Weekly Standard, the G.O.P. tip sheet, Representative Pete King, a fed-up New York Republican, calls Gingrich "the most powerful liberal in American politics." He doesn't mean that as a compliment. Once loyal House members have spent the winter complaining that the leadership has no strategy, little vision and few principles anymore. Senior members, including some of Gingrich's princes, like Dick Armey and Bill Paxon, have been...
...potential rival would face the same predicament Gingrich finds himself in: the G.O.P. majority is whisker-thin, the President is far more popular than House Republicans, and the public has expressed a greater appetite for action than ideology. While a President can look useful just by holding summits and improving child car-seat safety, Gingrich's troops have much more to lose if nothing much gets passed this year; in just 19 months they have to face voters again...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is having second thoughts about visiting China this month as part of an Asian tour by members of Congress. Last week a group of prominent conservatives met with Gingrich to insist that he highlight human rights in his discussions with Chinese officials. Gore leaves next week on his long-scheduled China trip. At a press briefing in Beijing last week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Cui Tiankai had to spend much of his time fending off questions about the campaign-finance scandals. Said he: "There have been rumors in the American press that China did this...
...Dunn of Washington responded, "For too long parents have had to choose between work and spending time with their children. That's a tragedy." Although President Clinton previously endorsed extending optional time off to private workers, he made it clear in a pre-vote letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich that he would veto the House bill. "Although I am prepared to support and sign a responsible comp time bill," he wrote, "I intend to veto any legislation that fails to guarantee real choice for employees, real protection against employer abuse and preservation of fair labor standards." He may soon...