Word: newt
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Politics as usual is not what America voted for last November. Unfortunately, it's what we're getting. Newt Gingrich's House of representatives has had its fifteen minutes in the sun. Now the Senate has the chance to prove whether it really is "the world's greatest deliberative body...
...face a "rendezvous with reality" when voters come to understand the impact of proposed cuts in Medicare and scores of other programs. "I predict they're going to experience a number of conversions within their ranks," he said, "especially among those running for re-election next year." House Speaker Newt Gingrich, noting that Gore offered no alternative budget-balancing plan, accused the White House of "taking a walk" on the issue...
...Oklahoma City an inevitable descent into violence of the American culture wars? Does it mean that critical mass has been reached in the struggle between Newly Feminized America (as represented by Bill Clinton and his Administration) and the Nut-Case Phallocrats (Newt Gingrich, the National Rifle Association and rant radio in unholy collusion...
...Senate returned to work last week as a battle broke out over G.O.P. plans for massive Medicare cuts as part of balancing the budget by 2002. House speaker Newt Gingrich told a seniors' group Friday that Medicare reform would be handled separately from the budget to keep the program from going broke, but G.O.P. sources said the health-care program for the elderly still will play a central role in the party's budget-balancing plans...
...immediate congressional action on his anti-terrorism package, despite GOP warnings that a controversial FBI promotion could stall it. "It needs to pass and pass now," Clinton said. "Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football." He was referring to a suggestion made Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian compound in Waco...