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...these Beltway honchos could identify it. One person--an actual Time Warner employee--volunteered, "Oh, I know! It's just like Netscape!" Netscape Navigator is the leading browser software that allows your computer to use the Web. This would be like someone from the Other Beltway saying, "Newt Gingrich--isn't he a member of the President's Cabinet...
...embattled House Speaker is always claiming to be happy when he looks just miserable. But last week, when Newt Gingrich said, "It feels very good to be here," he actually seemed to mean it. Congress had just passed bills to balance the budget for the first time in 29 years and cut taxes significantly for the first time in 16. In celebration, Gingrich wore a yellow happy-face sticker on his lapel...
...familiar statistical duel has erupted over who would benefit from the relief. Republicans insist that 75% of the House cuts go to families making less than $75,000; Democrats say 70% of the cuts go to the richest 20% of Americans. (Both sides use self-serving methodology.) Gingrich wants a deal. "We are going to do everything we can to get the bill signed," he says. But a concession to Clinton on, say, capital gains could cost Newt conservative support. And getting a good deal from Clinton is never easy. "If [Republicans] think Lucy's going to keep the football...
That same evening--the Speaker's 54th birthday, as it happened--about 35 Republicans, largely drawn from the Gingrich- inspired Class of '94, met in Armey's suite, ostensibly to talk about upcoming legislation. But their session opened instead with outbursts against Gingrich, some even asserting that it was time to dump him. For the first time, a participant recalled, Gingrich's fellow Republicans were saying they no longer could trust...
...Archer, looking for ways to overcome presidential reservations about what a radical tax bill would mean for the fate of the balanced budget deal. Both measures represent the biggest tax break since the Reagan administration. "We're going to work with the president and his team," a jubilant Newt Gingrich said. "We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have every reason to believe it'll be signed." The House bill features a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes...