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Clinton and his new team--a competent, bland bunch of centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether...
...saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. About the only certainty is that Gingrich's narrow re-election as Speaker of the House last Tuesday...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As President Clinton prepares to present a balanced budget plan to Congress on February 6, he finds himself treading on ground that turned to quicksand for Newt Gingrich a year ago. Aides confirmed today that the President proposes to pare $100 billion over five years from Medicare and Medicaid by cutting reimbursements to hospitals, HMOs and doctors. Under the President's plan, spending for the two giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Republicans are sending a letter to Janet Reno asking for an investigation into who taped an embarrassing phone call in which Newt Gingrich appears to have violated an agreement with the House ethics committee, and released a transcript of the conversation to the New York Times. According to the Times, the call was taped by a Florida couple who picked up the call on a police scanner, apparently because at least one of the parties in the conversation was using a cell phone. The Times story showed that on December 21, the same day he admitted to making...
...House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-Mich.), after Newt Gingrich's re-election yesterday as Speaker of the House...