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...ironic that the so-called Religious Freedom Amendment proposed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes away the one liberty it promises. Gingrich's House Republicans promised in their last campaign to amend the Constitution to include a moment of silence for prayer in public school by July 1995. We can be thankful that he has missed this deadline and hope that such a move will not come soon. While Gingrich claims that prayer in school would not only preserve America from ruin, but return the country to some glorious past, he misunderstands what America has always been about...
Perhaps the most ridiculous part of the prayer in school issue is the claim that the "moment of silence," proposed by Gingrich, is really something other than a back door in which to return prayer to schools. Its defenders claim that this pause can be used for any voluntary activity on the part of the student, and so it has nothing to do with prayer. Of course, its defenders had never called for it before the Supreme Court decided prayer in school was in violation of the Constitution...
...moment of silence does not reduce the pressure on minorities; indeed, Gingrich revealed his true view several years ago when he spoke before Congress and said, "It's not all that bad to have some pressure to pray...
Hours before the welfare vote, House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed ending the federal entitlement status of Medicaid, the program that provides comprehensive health insurance for 36 million low-income Americans. At a New York press conference, Gingrich proposed funding Medicaid through block grants and insisted the plan would "deliver better care with better services at less cost." Unlike its higher-end cousin, Medicare, Medicaid already depends on vast state involvement, and the bill would likely fail without governors' support. "No one in Washington suggests block-granting Medicare," says TIME's Tumulty. "It would scare to many powerful constituencies. Medicaid...
Maybe Gephardt should send Mayor Giuliani. Gingrich attacked New York City, calling it a corrupt, over-unionized drain on the rest of the country. New York City Mayor Giuliani responded that while his city sends $9 billion more to Washington than it gets back in federal spending, Georgia gets $1 billion more than it pays in taxes. Giuliani added that Gingrich's own congressional district is a leading recipient of federal pork...