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...rise in turn from their desks to announce their votes aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members, including Speaker Newt Gingrich, who made a rare visit to the Senate chamber. Moynihan sat there with the pinched expression of a man watching the old certainties of his party expire without so much as a moment of silence...
When Bill Clinton met with Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and the rest of the congressional leadership last week, the mood was cordial, the atmosphere so thick with promises to work together you could almost forget that not long ago the G.O.P. revolutionaries were ready to set up guillotines on the Capitol Mall. The impulse to cooperate was not entirely contrived, as Senate Republicans and Democrats proved last week when they made real progress toward a final version of welfare reform. Clinton even praised the Senate in his Saturday radio address for "wisdom and courage" in crafting the bill that...
Still, most Republicans who might have been offended by Powell's opinions remain complimentary. Words of praise came last week from Jack Kemp and William Kristol. Even House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is toying with the idea of entering the race, says that Powell could be a strong contender in the Republican primaries because of his standing as a war hero, an economic conservative and a person with strong family values. Says Gingrich: "I don't think a social moderate will necessarily lose the Republican primaries. [Powell] could put together a very interesting coalition...
...what? The Crimson is, most importantly, an open institution. You don't have to have any particular ideological persuasion to join. You don't have to agree with the pro-business, anti-public health and safety agenda of Newt Gingrich and his shameless minions in the new Republican Congress...
Hours before the welfare vote, House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed ending the federal entitlement status of Medicaid, the program that provides comprehensive health insurance for 36 million low-income Americans. At a New York press conference, Gingrich proposed funding Medicaid through block grants and insisted the plan would "deliver better care with better services at less cost." Unlike its higher-end cousin, Medicare, Medicaid already depends on vast state involvement, and the bill would likely fail without governors' support. "No one in Washington suggests block-granting Medicare," says TIME's Tumulty. "It would scare to many powerful constituencies. Medicaid...