Word: newt
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...Newt Gingrich, naturally, lauded the court's decision as "a tremendous court victory." But the great uncounted can be an inscrutable bunch. Take motor-voter laws, which make registering to vote easier and which Republicans opposed on the tenet that the laziest voters were all Democrats. "Those laws have actually helped the GOP, for reasons that demographers still don't understand," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "You never know how it will come out." Certainly Clinton hasn't had much luck lately with the high court, and this time, as before, the law seems to be against...
...congressional fact-finding mission. Tomorrow, Newt Gingrich has his own summer of deliverance as he starts a float trip down the Hanford Reach, the last non-tidal free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River in the U.S., as a precursor to Hill debate on whether to keep it that...
...although Dan Coats wasted no time in airing his suspicion "that we may have a president that is desperately seeking to hold onto his job," Clinton-haters from Newt Gingrich to Orrin Hatch have all put their patriotism above their suspicions -- at least publicly. "Sooner or later, terrorists will realize that America's differences end at the water's edge," said none other than Jesse Helms, "and that the United States' political leadership always has, and always will, stand united in the face of international terrorism." Nice to know bipartisanship is still out there somewhere...
...Republicans' mute response to such putative evidence of Clinton's moral turpitude, Gingrich by April had reverted to form, accusing the President of "lawbreaking" and swearing he'd never deliver another speech without mentioning the Clinton investigations. The G.O.P. base loved the return of the old, attack-happy Newt, but Gingrich, who is considering a run for President in 2000, saw his already low personal-approval ratings take a dive. And so, since mid-July, the Speaker has been dismissing questions about impeachment with feigned indifference. "I won't pay any attention to it," he told the newspaper Roll Call...
...Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich makes points and lays in video footage for his presidential run with a trip to Ireland to visit his ancestors, members of the O'Doherty clan...