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...Gore is schmoozing more, and Bush looks sour when he's running behind. The press that panned Gore's convention speech has discovered that the 97-lb. weakling is an Issues Superman, a hunk on the rope line and a good kisser. Stories even ran last week quoting Newt Gingrich to the effect that Gore was "instrumental in creating the Internet." What's next? Will we find out there really is "no controlling legal authority"? In contrast, Bush's verbal tics are suddenly evidence of an addled brain not up to debating. Before, he was a breath of fresh...
...That, in essence, is the concept behind the Medicare plan Texas Governor George W. Bush unveiled last week. But it is also the basic approach behind a bipartisan plan that has been languishing on Capitol Hill for more than a year. And it was the notion Newt Gingrich put forward in 1995 when he was House Speaker, setting up the political standoff that produced that year's infamous government shutdowns...
MARRIED. NEWT GINGRICH, 57, Republican firebrand, former House Speaker, and techie futurist; and CALLISTA BISEK, 34, a congressional aide with whom he had a longtime affair; in Alexandria, Va. It is his third marriage, her first...
...rivalry between the two lawmakers dates back to 1995, when Tauzin, then a Democrat, switched parties and was rewarded with the chairmanship of a key subcommittee--though not before an angry Oxley, whose seniority was being usurped, weighed in and forced House Speaker Newt Gingrich to split the subcommittee in two. Now Oxley oversees the financial industry and hazardous-waste issues, and Tauzin looks after telecommunications and trade...
...Judging by the perpetual scowl on Newt Gingrich's face all week as he scoured the convention corridors looking for cameras to pontificate in front of, a more apt selection from the O'Jays' oeuvre would have been their 1972 hit "Backstabbers...