Word: newt
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AFTER LOOKING AT THE IMAGES OF THE universe, I began to wonder: Are we really significant? John Kennedy definitely got the picture and could see the importance of going into space with the goal of man's landing on the moon. Apparently House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Bob Dole don't get the picture, as evidenced by their efforts to make cuts in the meager NASA budget in the Contract with America. A picture in the book The Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan, shows the earth as a tiny point of light that is barely visible among...
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...
...become the 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...
...reductions to Medicare and Medicaid and fewer tax cuts. Still, Clinton's budget hits welfare, transportation and housing the hardest to save $141 billion more than his June budget proposal. While congressional Republicans complained throughout the day that the Administration was relying on overly optimistic economic forecasts, House Speaker Newt Gingrich nonetheless allowed: "It's a start." After briefing Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta told reporters the President is considering mechanisms to rescind tax breaks and to impose automatic spending cuts if deficit reduction targets...