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...Congresswoman has blamed her estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz, for funneling nearly $2 million in illegal funds into her campaign through an alleged check-kiting scheme. According to TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty, "Her version of events was not really selling." The former corporate lawyer and Gingrich favorite had little chance of reelection anyway, said Tumulty. "We some amazing resurrections but this would have to be a doozy," she said. "If you look at polls, the voters of Utah thought she was at least partially to blame." According to a survey published Dec. 17 by The Salt Lake...
Think back. The singular achievement of the '94 Gingrich revolution was that it swept into power united behind one comprehensive ideological goal: dismantling the welfare state. Just about everything in the Contract with America and the legislative agenda of the 104th Congress is a mere subheading: welfare reform, tax cuts, entitlement reform, returning power to the states, the balanced budget (a supremely powerful means for keeping the growth of government in check...
...Republicans--they won philosophically. Clinton conceded all their principles. He finally embraced their seven-year balanced budget. Then, in a State of the Union speech that might have been delivered by a moderate Republican, he declared, "The era of Big Government is over," the dominant theme of the Gingrich revolution...
...water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach to the environment; he says the party "mishandled" the matter last year...
...such a case, explained Edwards, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and several powerful GOP governors would begin working out deals to choose a candidate who could beat President Clinton in November...