Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEWT GINGRICH LOSING CONTROL OF HIS message, his revolution--and himself...
...sniped that White House spokesman Mike McCurry had suggested that Gingrich and his troops wanted senior citizens to "die." Lurching forward in his seat, Gore reminded Gingrich of his 1994 allegation that Democratic Party values had played a role in Susan Smith's drowning of her two young sons. "Newt," Gore scolded, "I don't remember you apologizing to us for saying we killed those two kids in South Carolina...
...because we're the strongest, then come home," says a Republican congressional staff member only half in jest. European parliamentarians and ministers who go to Capitol Hill for long-scheduled meetings with groups of congressmen are finding that only one or two--sometimes none--show up. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has set up a foreign-policy breakfast series to educate his charges about the world, but attendance has been sporadic...
...Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. The House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would be lost, the war would resume, the slaughter of innocents would begin again, and the conflict that already has claimed so many people could spread like...
...done it again. Speaking before an audience of Republican governors in New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich blamed the welfare, criminal justice and educational systems for a gruesome murderous rampage in which a pregnant woman and two of her children were killed. After the woman was shot to death, her assailants cut open her abdomen with a pair of scissors and pulled out her 8 1/2 month fetus, which survived. "Gingrich appears to have something approaching political Tourette's syndrome," says Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "The list of things he's said and had to apologize for is proving that...