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...Gingrich, the potentially more damaging process would be a wide-ranging probe by an independent counsel, which Democrats have urged the Ethics Committee to appoint. The Democrats turned up the pressure last week, citing the fact that four of the five Republicans on the Ethics Committee have ties to GOPAC. Last week the committee's chairman, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, acknowledged that she had participated in at least two GOPAC events, and had talked with individual GOPAC-recruited candidates on at least two other occasions. But Johnson insisted that her past involvement should not disqualify her from heading the committee...
Privately, Clinton Administration officials were ecstatic about Gingrich's comeuppance. The heart of the White House objection to the Republican budget plan is that it favors the rich, as well as "checkbook lobbying," all of which the FEC's charges against Gingrich seemed to buttress. Last week, after three days of negotiation, neither side was making any concessions to reach agreement on a seven-year budget deal. Said Armey: "We have not gotten the President to talk to us in any substantive way. They are still pursuing a strategy of failure." Responded Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff...
...best way to highlight the President's stalwart positions in defense of Medicare, education and the environment. The opposite camp, led by moderate adviser Dick Morris, does not want to see Clinton campaign for re-election having blocked a congressional majority from passing a balanced budget. For Gingrich and his Republicans, however, entering the same campaign without that long-promised achievement could be a worse fate...
...Republicans are offering an array of enticements, according to the letter obtained by TIME. A person who gives $250,000 or solicits others to give that much is designated a gala co-chairman, gets lunch with Senate majority leader Bob Dole as well as Speaker Gingrich, priority seating at the gala, and four priority tickets to the convention. For $150,000, a donor becomes a vice chairman but gets only two convention tickets. The $45,000 donor is a deputy chairman, eats breakfast with Gingrich, but gets no tickets and no lunch. A $15,000 dinner-committee member...
Will that rationale resonate in the House? Early indications are that Speaker Newt Gingrich will declare a "conscience vote," which means members can do as they please without regard to party loyalty. "The problem with that," says Holbrooke, "is that many Representatives are so new that they've never had to cast a pure national security vote." Indeed, 210 of the House's 435 members (including 134 Republicans) weren't in Congress in 1991, when it narrowly voted to support George Bush's war against Iraq. "Most of them," says Holbrooke, "don't like spending money on anything, view...