Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tall that White House aides are playing it down because it only invites future headlines about Clinton's approval rating dropping. What it means for Republicans is that any impeachment proceeding would be a complicated gift. A vote in the full House would be presided over by Speaker Newt Gingrich, a man with some of the lowest approval ratings in America. "The Republicans don't have a lot of credibility on this stuff," says a cautiously confident aide to the President. "Everyone thinks they're partisan." The prospect of a conviction in the Senate, where the trial stage...
...much and deserved surprise, heterodox Harvard students scored political victories last semester. Beth A. Stewart '00, a reported, ahem, conservative students run for the Undergraduate Council presidency often enough, but rarely do they win. And certainly not if they once worked for...Newt Gingrich...
Rossello said that the bill has many co-sponsors from both political parties, including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Democratic House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...
...that the Republican majorities in Congress actually helped Clinton. He was able to distinguish himself as the sensible, centrist alternative to both the liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress and cruise to re-election. Similarly, when the story of this scandal is ultimately written, Monica and Ken--like Newt and his Revolutionaries before them--may come to be remembered as the unwitting supporting cast in the Comeback Kid's final...
...cruel joke, the Republicans' dream is quickly becoming a nightmare. When the scandal broke and rapidly attracted O.J.-like levels of media attention, Newt, Trent and the other GOP power players smugly believed they could just sit back and let the President destroy himself. There didn't seem to be much sense in sullying oneself in the mud of dirty allegations when the job was already being done by a pack of loose-lipped lawyers and reporters who smelled blood...