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...Newt Gingrich's office, decorated with bloody Civil War battle scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them...
Just a week before a much-ballyhooed visit to the key presidential primary state of New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich hasstirred confusion aplenty on the campaign trailby telling Business Week that he might run for president if 7 million voters signed petitions urging him to do so. "Gingrich simply refuses to close the door on a presidential bid," saysMichael Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "If anything, he has opened it a bit with these comments." The immediate effect is tosteal thunder from the nine GOP candidatesalreadytrying to raise money and support. Gingrich maintained today that he was only...
...Speaker Gingrich said today that if President Clinton follows through on his threat to veto key GOP legislation,the House will shut down parts of the federal government by denying appropriations. "You can veto whatever you want to, " he said in a speech before George business leaders. "But as of October 1, there is no government." Gingrich said that withholding funding for programs the Democrats care about would be a more effective tactic than trying simply to override Clinton's veto. "There's a lot of stuff we don't care if it's never funded," Gingrich said. Withholding...
With the blessings of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other leading Republican conservatives, the Christian Coalition unveiled its "Contract with the American Family," a 10-point social and political program that the group wants Congress to enact. Among its controversial provisions: a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in schools and other public places, new limits on abortions, restrictions on computer and cable-TV access to sexually explicit materials and the abolition of federal aid for the arts...
What do Newt Gingrich and Stephen King have in common? Mammoth book tours. Starting this summer, a spokesman revealed today, the House Speaker will hit bookshops and bookstops in 40 U.S. cities to promote "To Renew America," the bound version of his longtime philosophy-and-civics course. The decision, oddly, comes after a political outcry forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today...