Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stabenow defeated current first-term Republican Rep. Dick Crysler--a member of the "Gingrich Posse"--by opposing Republican budget cuts...
Asked about the case today, Burton says it "wouldn't be appropriate" for him to comment while special prosecutor Kenneth Starr is still investigating. Burton's promise to tone down his rhetoric was enough to overcome rumblings among some Republicans, who wanted Speaker Newt Gingrich to disregard Burton's seniority and choose someone else to replace William Clinger, the retiring moderate from Pennsylvania who in the past two years has presided over hearings into Travelgate and Filegate. Burton passed an important test last week. When word got out that his new chief investigator, David Bossie, had procured the Commerce Department...
Like him or not, the "Comeback Kid," William Jefferson Clinton, is undoubtedly one of the century's greatest politicians. Many were prepared to write his political obituary after the Gingrich Revolution. But Clinton has handled himself with grace and dignity despite constant criticism during his tenure as President. He is proof that character can be shaped not only on a wartime battlefield but in political wars as well. BETH E. CECIL Fort Pierce, Florida...
...women stood up for a pro-labor Senator, John Kerry, and defeated a formidable Republican candidate in Gov. Bill Weld. Labor was also crucial in the defeats of Republican incumbents Reps. Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen in the third and sixth districts. Spurred into action by the Gingrich agenda but also by broader social forces such as the growing income disparity, wage stagnation and downsizing, the American labor movement is on the rise once again...
Finally, the American people want the political parties to quit the petty fights and to lead for a change. They do not want to see one party steamroll the other as the Democrats tried to do in the early Clinton years or the Gingrich Republicans tried to do in the last two years. They want to see cooperation and people working together for the good of the country--not for improvement in the next Gallup poll's numbers...