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Because the five Republicans on the 10-member House ethics committee would not authorize a formal probe, Democrats have had to find another way to investigate Speaker Newt Gingrich's book deal. The committee now plans to ask the principals to testify under oath about the deal. Scheduled to appear in the next few weeks: a Gingrich congressional aide, two lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, owner of HarperCollins, which publishedGingrich's book "To Renew America," and two executives from publishers whose bids on the book were rejected. Democrats hope the testimony will convince committee Republicans to break the deadlock and authorize...
...unbridgeable differences over how and when to balance the federal budget,President Clintonand Republican leaders today predicted thata compromise can be reached this summer. "We have major differences over how the budget ought to be balanced," the President said after meeting withSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic leaders. "But I think it would be an error to delay it and run the risk of having a crisis in government." Dole and Gingrich made no pledge to budge, but Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said both parties "are committed...
Amazing even book store owners, Gingrich signed 850 books in 75 minutes in a sneak-peak event Saturday in Marietta...
...this might be amusing--look at that wild and crazy Speaker of ours--if Gingrich weren't the second most powerful person in the country. Attention-deficit disorder and franchising your name while it's hot are troubling characteristics in someone who is speed-cutting $200 billion from such programs as Medicaid, Head Start, Amtrak, public television, water quality and air-traffic control. Many citizens don't think these cuts make sense at all, but all citizens should wonder whether it isn't reckless to make them while making a personal fortune at the same time. Being Speaker used...
Newtie isn't the only one in the Gingrich family with literary aspirations. Gay activist CANDACE GINGRICH, his half-sister, has retained a literary agent and plans to write her "kind of unique" life story. As for her half-brother's books, she says she doesn't plan to read them...