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...proceedings. An aide to Gingrich confirmed that her boss had discussed bolstering the Judiciary Committee staff should Starr turn the matter over to them. None of Clinton's enemies are using the "I" word in public -- it's merely being passed off as preparation. "In Washington," said Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.), "you have to be ready for anything...
...some of Paxon's peers, all of whom face re-election next November, the answer is yes--the sooner the better. "When I think of whom I want to see as the face of the Republican Party," says Oklahoma's Steve Largent, "I think of Bill Paxon." Largent is one of the group of disgruntled conservatives who fomented the rebellion that nearly toppled Gingrich. But Largent and others like him say that even if Gingrich has improved as manager of the G.O.P. majority, this hasn't eased the burden imposed on all Republicans by the Speaker's dismal public-approval...
That approach has worked well in Congress, where Paxon, who was first elected in 1988, has as close a bond with moderates like Rick White of Washington as he does with hard-liners of the Largent and Graham variety. Yet it has also opened him up to the charge that he is more committed to winning than to a set of beliefs. Paxon points to his conservative voting record--but quietly casting a vote is different from taking the lead on an ideologically loaded issue. And in his first nine years in Congress, he was never the front...
...July 9 Armey, DeLay, Boehner and Paxon gathered for the first of several secret meetings to discuss the brewing rebellion. The next night, DeLay met with 20 rebels in the offices of Oklahoma's Steve Largent. At first, DeLay was coy. Then he warned that if the rebels were going to act, they had better do so quickly, because their plot was about to leak. "Is everybody prepared to go ahead with this?" he asked. At that point, Indiana's Mark Souder turned the question around. "Are you with us?" According to several participants, DeLay was clearly speaking...
...reform; eventually life would return to its rhythms and routines, things would slow down, chairmen would take more power. But they hadn't counted on the reactions of the newest recruits, whose political lives began with Gingrich's call to arms. Mark Neumann stopped building houses in Wisconsin, Steve Largent quit his business in Oklahoma, Scarborough stopped trying cases in Florida, and they all ran for Congress. With no institutional memory, they showed up on the Capitol steps, promising purification. They don't know how to go back to the old way, because for them there never was such...