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WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich created a special panel to investigate the Clinton Administration's role in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia in defiance of an international embargo imposed in 1992. Gingrich's call for an investigation came a day after a State Department official said that the administration tacitly approved the 1994 arms transfers because of the Bosnians' desperate military situation. "President Clinton's policy of virtually inviting Iran into Europe could have disastrous results for America," said Gingrich. "The president undertook this reckless policy hastily and then kept it secret from Congress, the American people...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich created a special panel to investigate the Clinton Administration's role in Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia in defiance of an international embargo imposed in 1992. Gingrich's call for an investigation came a day after a State Department official said that the administration tacitly approved the 1994 arms transfers because of the Bosnians' desperate military situation. "President Clinton's policy of virtually inviting Iran into Europe could have disastrous results for America," said Gingrich. "The president undertook this reckless policy hastily and then kept it secret from Congress, the American people...
From the perspective of today's budgetary quandaries, we might see the funneling of federal funds into The Hub as an abuse of power. Indeed, it seems to fit the stereotype of the entrenched pre-Gingrich liberal regime. But despite the new national distant for such political practice, it is almost a fact of life in Boston...
Republicans like Blute and Weld have also consistently supported political reform. Weld boasts of his strict fiscal discipline and his comprehensive campaign to streamline state government. Blute, often seen as the lone Gingrich disciple in the Bay State, has helped push many of the new Republican reforms through the House. Yet while both echo conservative principles, each is grounded by the state's inherently liberal nature. Both distance themselves from Republican party's extreme right wing...
...gimmick, something to bring up in a reelection speech," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "Republicans are not actually trying to amend the Constitution. They want to drive home the point that they are serious about not raising taxes and that under the Democrats, taxes have grown." House Speaker Newt Gingrich promised House Republicans the April 15 vote after he stripped the tax measure from the balance-balanced budget amendment because he feared it would not pass. Nobody believes it will pass today either, says Tumulty. What is truly significant about the tax-day stunt, she says, is that the Republican...