Word: newt
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This profound struggle for the party's soul was on display last week in Dallas. A group of young Turk conservatives led by Congressmen Jack Kemp of New York and Newt Gingrich of Georgia took control of the party platform committee and installed some of the rightists' favorite planks. Even such respected G.O.P. Senate leaders as Robert Dole of Kansas and Howard Baker of Tennessee were shoved to the side and largely ignored. The two camps sniped at each other in interviews during the convention week, challenging each other's views of the party's future...
That horrified the party's conservative firebrands, led by Congressmen Jack Kemp of New York, Vin Weber of Minnesota and Newt Gingrich of Georgia. They proposed to lock the door tight by inserting a comma after the word taxes...
...Neill had heard enough. Incensed by an attack on Democratic legislators by Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia during a debate last week, the House Speaker dropped his gavel and strode angrily onto the floor, leaving his Massachusetts colleague Democrat Joseph Moakley to take the chair. O'Neill shook a finger at Gingrich and roared, "You challenged their patriotism, and it is the lowest thing that I have ever seen in my 32 years in Congress...
...enfant terrible of the House floor, right-wing Republican Newt Gingrich, 40, of Georgia, scales the rhetorical heights by quoting Winston Churchill about the years before World War II: "The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...
...despite its comforting tone, Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address* last week provoked an immediate chorus of grumbles, not the least of which emanated from leaders of his own party. A cadre of conservatives led by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia argued hat the so-called freeze should be applied more evenly across the board to defense is well as domestic spending. In addition, lamented Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico, "even with a freeze, you've still got a big deficit problem out there." Senate Finance...