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...FANTASY THAT PRIVATE CHARITIES will take up the slack left by federal cutbacks in programs for the poor and elderly [SOCIETY, Dec. 4]. Newt Gingrich's campaign to lower taxes for the wealthy will result in even greater burdens being imposed on those least able to fend for themselves. Consider New Hampshire. Despite being among the 10 wealthiest states according to income and having a relatively low overall tax burden, the state also ranks dead last among all states in per-capita charitable giving. Even more telling is that 16% of New Hampshire families who report adjusted gross income...
...House ethics committee, which has been investigating the finances of Speaker Newt Gingrich, proposed altering the chamber's rules to bring book royalties under the $20,040-a-year limit on members' outside income. The G.O.P. leadership wants the change vetted in hearings, which will give Gingrich more time to collect possible multimillion-dollar revenues from his 1995 book To Renew America...
...expected, Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil rights activist, handily beat his G.O.P. opponent for the Chicago-area House seat vacated by scandal-tainted Mel Reynolds. In California, Republican Tom Campbell turned back a Democratic attempt to link him to Speaker Newt Gingrich and won a San Jose House seat, and former Democratic state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco...
...Gingrich's first legislative victory this year was passing a law that subjects the Speaker and his colleagues to the same labor and civil-rights laws that apply to private-sector employers. Clinton signed the bill in January...
...GINGRICH GOES STRATOSPHERIC: The loud Speaker threw a tantrum about being seated in the rear of Air Force One on the way home from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. David Letterman said Clinton tried to explain to Gingrich that it "was just to balance the weight." A Republican asked on the House floor, "Is it parliamentary to call the Speaker of the House a crybaby?" To appease Gingrich, White House press secretary Mike McCurry offered him the special M&Ms from the presidential plane...