Word: gop
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WASHINGTON: As if the grueling 12-hour session with Ken Starr weren't punishment enough, House Judiciary Committee members had to stay behind after class Thursday night while the two sides bitterly debated over whether to call new witnesses to the impeachment inquiry. Offering no explanation, the GOP majority railroaded four new subpoenas -? for Kathleen Willey's attorney, Daniel Gecker; Democratic donor Nathan Landow; Clinton attorney Bob Bennett and White House lawyer Bruce Lindsey. "What's interesting," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney, "is that we still don't know what the Republicans have in mind by deposing them...
Most of the nation's 31 Republican governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma?s Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is Jim Nicholson, the GOP party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the governors, including Michigan's John Engler, have said in public that it?s time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...seeing the value in accruing the wisdom and effectiveness that only a long tenure can provide. They want the term limits revoked. Another idea being floated: a pay raise for House members, something Livingston has supported in the past. But lawmakers shouldn?t get their hopes up. Said a GOP official on Capitol Hill, referring to the idea of revoking term limits for committee chairmen: "That'll fly like a lead zeppelin...
...accuser Kathleen Willey. But unlike the Lewinsky report, the latest data dump contains no official accusation of wrongdoing. Starr is merely offering documents that suggest Clinton may have committed (you guessed it) perjury when asked about his relationship with Willey. And right now, that's the last thing the GOP needs. "Republicans on the Hill look on the Willey charges as a poison chalice," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a strong desire to get impeachment over with quickly -? yet if they look like they're not considering it carefully, it hurts them with the core supporters...
...admit the senator was "ahead of the curve," although he added that nothing would halt his committee's impeachment probe before Ken Starr has a chance to speak on November 19. Still, with at least five Republican representatives having come out publicly against impeachment over the past few days, GOP lawmakers no longer have the votes in the House -- let alone the Senate -- to impeach Clinton. In the face of a humiliating defeat on the floor, building a bridge to some 21st century jail time may be their only option...