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LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year--ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously--he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we'll-get-to-it-someday priority. Other urgent work needed doing: the Clintons' health-care program, for example, which would have installed elaborate new bureaucratic machinery. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when...
...House voted 259-128 Friday to allow its members to receive unlimited book royalties, provided that they receive no advances and have their book contracts approved in advance by the Ethics Committee. The measure, proposed by Republican Gerald Solomon of New York, is good news for Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose potentially $2 million in royalty checks is now subject to a $20,040 annual cap on outside income. Not everyone was happy with the vote. House Democratic Whip David Bonior, referring to the current government shutdown, said afterward: "Veterans are still waiting for their checks, kids are being denied their...
President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Majority Leader Dick Armey will hold a budget summit at the White House Friday. Talks got back on track after White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta met Thursday with Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. John Kasich, the chairmen of the Senate and House Banking Committees. House Republicans have said that they will not pass a continuing resolution to end the partial federal shutdown until the budget deal is completed...
...Richard Holbrooke has announced his intention to resign his post early next year. Says TIME's Mark Thompson: "He's leaving on a high note, and frankly, he's leaving before we run into any real trouble keeping the peace." In other developments, Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military is beginning to dismantle its anti-aircraft radar...
Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. Davis and Blankeley have two small sons, eight-year-old Spencer and six-year-old Trevor. "She's going away for about a year," reports Mark Thompson. "It is not clear yet whether Davis, a military press officer, will be sent to Bosnia. First she will go to Fort Benning, and from there to Germany. This suggests that the military has reached...