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...land: who owns it, how to use it and who decides. Translated into Washington terms, that means ever more heated politics of the environment, as Western lawmakers tear through two decades of regulations. They are doing it with such success that many moderate Republicans--and even House Speaker Newt Gingrich--fear they are handing the Democrats a powerful issue. Democrats, including the President, couldn't agree more...
...that the White House accepted his offer for an emergency extension of the government's borrowing authority, Newt Gingrich has changed his mind. The House Speaker today said Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's projection that the federal debt limit would be reached by Oct. 31 could be "a Halloween trick to try to scare people." Instead, Gingrich wants plenty of time to pore over the figures. Rubin's warning Tuesday had scuttled Republican plans to tie the emergency debt-limit increase to their dramatic budget cuts. Who's right? Says TIME's Karen Tumulty: "The people who have the most...
...seems, the protesters will get their way. After months of paralysis, the House Ethics Committee appears ready to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied...
With the appointment almost inevitable, the next fight on the panel will be over what the counsel will be allowed to investigate. Republicans want to keep the focus narrow, perhaps just on the possible tax-law violations involving the funding of the college course Gingrich taught. But the Democrats want a broad investigation of whether Gingrich broke federal laws and House rules as he mounted his long and deliberate campaign to become Speaker. Among the questions raised...
...Gingrich use GOPAC, his political-action committee, to circumvent laws limiting candidate contributions and requiring that they be made public? The Federal Election Commission has already sued GOPAC because it says the group dodged federal disclosure requirements by falsely maintaining that GOPAC was involved only in state races. As a result, the commission contends, GOPAC was able to keep secret the names of its donors and how it spent its money. Last week the Washington Post reported that in 1986 Gingrich wrote to a prospective Tennessee contributor making plain his intent to use the group as the all-purpose engine...