Word: newt
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...understand the deep bewilderment that Election Day '98 visited on the Republicans, you had only to look at Senators Al D'Amato and Lauch Faircloth, two of Bill Clinton's sweatiest pursuers, making their baffled concessions. Or to hear Newt Gingrich, who said last April that he would never give another speech without mentioning the White House scandals, complaining about how it was the media that had been obsessed with the whole nasty thing. Or to see Henry Hyde, whose House Judiciary Committee must still find its way down from Mount Monica, as he promised last week to descend...
...When Newt Gingrich and his self-proclaimed revolutionaries took power after the 1994 elections, they passed the so-called gift ban, a deliberately draconian law that prohibits members of Congress and their staffs from accepting gifts of any value -- even a cup of coffee -- from lobbyists, journalists and contributors. Another reform: Gingrich placed six-year term limits on all committee chairmen. But in the days since Newt announced his resignation, his presumptive heir, Bob Livingston of Louisiana, has been peppered with furtive requests from fellow Republicans who want to turn back the reform clock. The total gift ban, they argue...
WASHINGTON: You wouldn't have thought Newt Gingrich was going anywhere. The cries of "Newt, Newt, Newt," the standing ovations, the laminated copy of the Contract With America ?- all accompanied the outgoing speaker Monday night as he addressed his old buddies at GOPAC. It was trademark Gingrich -- calls for tax cuts, vilification of trial lawyers (who are responsible for exacerbating Y2K misery, we were told) and wild new ideas such as giving everyone their own Social Security investment account. The only sign that something had changed came when the outgoing Speaker endorsed, praised and bear-hugged his successor, Bob Livingston...
...going on in his absence. Livingston's position may be secure, but Majority Leader Dick Armey is in the fight of his life -? against a telegenic former pro footballer (Steve Largent) and a sympathetic female figure (Jennifer Dunn). All of which left observers wondering: Is this the way Newt wanted it? Calm before him, chaos after? "His party definitely wants to keep him in the game," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. That would certainly help the Speaker in any presidential bid two years hence -? about which the newly proclaimed "active citizen" was saying nothing...
...time for Gingrich's brand of politics has passed; as House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt said last week, "Whoever succeeds Newt Gingrich as Speaker will immediately begin the process of repairing the damage that was wrought on this institution over the last four years...