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House Speaker Newt Gingrich found himself in the middle of a new ethics controversy after the Federal Election Commission released internal papers from GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich once headed. The FEC charged that the documents--filed in a lawsuit against GOPAC--indicate the group improperly subsidized Gingrich's 1990 campaign, in which he narrowly won re-election. One document, a transcript of a gopac meeting, refers to ''a quarter of a million dollars in 'Newt support.'" The Speaker denounced the accusations as "totally phony...
...12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would not seek the Oval Office...
...NEWT GINGRICH The Speaker's formerly best-selling book is marked down 38%--remainder table looms...
...NEWT GINGRICH RETURNED FROM HIS Thanksgiving break not refreshed but chastened. Over the holiday, he had worried aloud with his wife and grown children about what he had done to himself and the Republicans. His plan to balance the budget was a month behind schedule. He had thrown a childish fit about his treatment aboard Air Force One, then connected a grisly triple murder in suburban Chicago to "the welfare state." His popularity had been dropping, taking his party's down with it. On Monday he announced he would not run for President...
...Gingrich soon realized that his symbolic retreat wasn't going to be enough. The party faithful had complained to his aides over the holiday break that the Speaker's erratic behavior was jeopardizing the revolution. By Tuesday Gingrich's top lieutenants had delivered the news: unless he lowered his profile, the balanced budget would be defeated, and more voters would grow disenchanted. "All the members [had gone] home," says a House Republican leader, "and heard the same thing: 'Keep it up, don't back down and tell Newt to shut up.'" So, on Wednesday, Gingrich went before a closed session...