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...majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution prohibits states from imposing qualifications upon candidates beyond minimum age, residency and citizenship --the ones explicitly stated in its text. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the Constitution is simply silent on the issue. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said today's decision demonstrated the need for aconstitutional amendment to limit congressional terms. Such an amendment failed in the House earlier this year, but Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) pledged to bring a Senate version to the floor "at the earliest possible date...
...Union speech, Clinton said he would not allow the Republicans to slash Medicare to pay for tax cuts, a line he took up again in a speech before 2,200 senior citizens attending the decennial White House Conference on Aging -- as it happened, the day after Dole and Gingrich's fiasco. "The Republicans promised they could balance the budget, cut taxes for the wealthy and leave Medicare and Social Security unharmed," Stephanopoulos told TIME. Clinton made the point more finely in his speech: "It is wrong simply to slash Medicare to pay for tax cuts for people who are well...
...late April, Republicans had begun to settle on a strategy of avoiding talking about Medicare as a budget issue and instead offering to reform the system to save it. But they were quickly tripped up by loose talk from Gingrich. In an April 28 speech to a conservative seniors' group, Gingrich offered to put Medicare reform on a separate track from consideration of the budget-a move that left even budget wizard Kasich scratching his head over what Gingrich meant. With Social Security and interest on the debt off the table, the budget simply cannot be balanced by 2002 without...
...family; they'll have to come to us." And so they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite to coordinate the campaign to pass the Contract with America...
...start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough to criticize its friends (Kristol points out he was skeptical of the $4.5 million book deal between U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch) and confident enough to give space to its opponents...