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...Senate. They can now claim a majority in each house on many abortion-related questions. And at least five of the most ardent of the newly elected abortion foes are women, blurring the battle lines of gender for the first time. "Their agenda is very clear. First, Newt Gingrich's hundred days; now, it's Pat Robertson's hundred days," said Democrat Nita Lowey of New York, who heads the House women's caucus. "We don't have the votes to stop any of this in the House...
...week's end the balance between protecting speech and curbing pornography seemed to be tipping back toward the libertarians. In a move that surprised conservative supporters, House Speaker Newt Gingrich denounced the Exon amendment. "It is clearly a violation of free speech, and it's a violation of the right of adults to communicate with each other," he told a caller on a cable-TV show. It was a key defection, because Gingrich will preside over the computer-decency debate when it moves to the House in July. Meanwhile, two U.S. Representatives, Republican Christopher Cox of California and Democrat...
...JUST AS WELL SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH HASN'T given up his day job. His brief life as an author has been one setback after another. First he saw his $4.5 million advance drop to one buck to avoid the appearance of impropriety, though his agent is still due her $675,000 commission from his royalties. And now, thanks to last week's warning from the House ethics committee,he has to pay for the book tour out of his own pocket...
...weren't for the fact that Gingrich stands to become a multimillionaire in the long run, you would feel sorry for the guy. After all, the best thing about a book tour is suites in nice hotels with unlimited room service, the $5 Coke on a silver tray that drops down from publishing heaven. On HarperCollins' tab (backed by an advertising, marketing and promotion budget of $500,000), Gingrich was looking at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton, according to publicist Steve Sorrentino. On his own nickel, the Speaker may be using up his frequent-flyer miles and wolfing...
Indeed, the Speaker is not wealthy by congressional standards. (According to his financial-disclosure statement released last month, Gingrich's assets are worth somewhere between $84,000 and $373,000.) But he is certainly moving quickly to become so. Gingrich is the first member of Congress, if not the first author, to have a fiction and a nonfiction book published within days of each other. Meanwhile, he has an agent shopping 1945 around Hollywood, where screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) facetiously rejected it as having too much of the loveless sex and mindless violence that Bob Dole deplores...