Word: newt
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...Speaker of the House] Newt [Gingrich] and Rush allow these people to achieve a level of comfort that shouldn't be provided," he said...
House Republicans are contemplating a stunning$305 billion cut in projected Medicare spendingto help balance the budget, but that hasn't stopped Speaker Newt Gingrich from rolling the hot potato down Pennsyvlania Avenue. Today, he challenged the Clinton administration, which has accused the GOP of cutting Medicare togive tax breaks to the rich, to come up with its own proposal to reform the ailing Medicare system by May 15. "Our goal will be, by September, to bring in a bill that will save the Medicare system for a generation," Gingrich told a group of seniors. He added: "We are going...
...long can environmentalism survive the heisse luft from industry lobbyists? Theresa Woody, a Miami-based representative of the Sierra Club, thinks that the movement isn't dying, just lazy; people thought environmental laws were established and permanent, and they weren't paying attention. She guesses Newt Gingrich will turn out to be the best membership raiser the green brigade has had since James Watt's alarming career as Interior Secretary. These days, she says, people like to see wading herons, but they really care about clean water in the aquifer when they understand that their own bodies need it every...
...rely on the BBC to relay the increasingly distressing news of our world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...
Hours before the Oklahoma City bombing dwarfed partisan politics, President Clinton launched an attack on the GOP, insisting he would not be "blackmailed" by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's threat to attach GOP bills to budgetary measures that Clinton would have difficulty vetoing. "A strategy to sort of put me in a box would be an error because I will still exercise the power of the presidency in the interest of the American people," Clinton said at an Oval Office photo-op, reprising his Wednesday press conference theme that the president is "relevant." If Gingrich tied controversial "Contract With America...