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...million voters signed petitions urging him to do so. "Gingrich simply refuses to close the door on a presidential bid," saysMichael Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "If anything, he has opened it a bit with these comments." The immediate effect is tosteal thunder from the nine GOP candidatesalreadytrying to raise money and support. Gingrich maintained today that he was only half-serious in his comment to Business Week. Maybe so, but the excited reaction among GOP activists to renewed talk of a potential Gingrich candidacy was telling. Duffy notes: "The longer he stays out there playing footsie with...
Speaker Gingrich said today that if President Clinton follows through on his threat to veto key GOP legislation,the House will shut down parts of the federal government by denying appropriations. "You can veto whatever you want to, " he said in a speech before George business leaders. "But as of October 1, there is no government." Gingrich said that withholding funding for programs the Democrats care about would be a more effective tactic than trying simply to override Clinton's veto. "There's a lot of stuff we don't care if it's never funded," Gingrich said. Withholding...
...civics course. The decision, oddly, comes after a political outcry forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today's announcement, press secretary Tony Blankley added perfunctorily: "He is not a candidate and doesn't plan to be a candidate...
...Senate passed theGOP's landmark planto balance the budget by 2002 (by a vote of 57-42), after relentlessly shooting down two dozen Democratic amendments designed to protect Medicare, national parks, education and other GOP targets. "We will finally begin tounpile the deficits," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "We will finally begin to speak for the future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House...
President Clinton's threat toveto a GOP bill dramatically slashing foreign aidhas only emboldened House Republicans. Late Tuesday, just hours after Clinton called the legislation the most isolationist in half a century, the House passed an amendment, by a vote of 276-134, that would cut $478 million more. (Sixty-three Democrats joined the Republican majority.) Today, the House went even further, voting to cut funding to international groups involved with abortions -- even where abortion is legal. A final House vote on the package is expected Thursday...