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...would appear that Israel has selected a Newt Gingrich of its own. BILL BLATZ Old Brookville, New York...
...like the one held last Monday at the Washington convention center. The Republican House-Senate dinner raised $8 million by offering guests different levels of access for donations of $10,000 to $100,000; benefits ranged from a photo with G.O.P. congressional leaders to lunch with House Speaker Newt Gingrich to having "a member of Congress or a Senator seated at your table" during the dinner...
...vote counter, for 10 of the past 15 years, first in the House and then in the Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home state...
...farewell, Dole urged his successor to practice the art of compromise. Heeding the advice, Lott held two meetings with Democratic leader Tom Daschle, who, in turn, refrained from attacking Lott as a Gingrich clone. But some colleagues warn that in a campaign season, Lott's pugnacious side would rather play up partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call...
...insists he was never really a friend of the President's and did not actually enjoy "putting on a tuxedo to go to the White House." It is "part of my job," he says blandly, to win the goodwill of powerful politicians, and he would gladly meet with Newt Gingrich "if I could." That would take some doing, since the Speaker of the House has named Coia as a figure in "a scandal that's about to break." Well, maybe not right away. As Luskin notes, the union has until Feb. 11, 1998, "to prove the deal was sound...