Word: newt
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...spent building every car, truck and van in the U.S. Rather than upgrade the computer system to deal with a complicated tax structure, the GOP says that the government should simplify the existing code. "We have as an objective ending the Internal Revenue Service as we know it," Newt Gingrich said in Congress Monday. Whether the reforms come at the margins or at the fundamental structural level of the tax code, the Speaker's objective may be realized...
...investigation of campaign finance would wind up biting them too. After all, the Republicans raised $200 million more than the Democrats last year without Air Force One or any presidential bedrooms to proffer. And while Bill Clinton may have sold tickets to his radio address, a minority whip called Newt Gingrich in 1990 offered Republican donors special briefings at the Bush White House and a chance to consult on policy...
...Gray hosted a fund-raising dinner at his Georgetown house where, for $20,000, you could get face time with Speaker Newt Gingrich (back when that was considered an appealing opportunity). Gray himself gave $143,910 to political candidates and committees in 1995--more than any other Washington lobbyist. These transactions didn't occur on government real estate, but are they any purer for that? Republican Senator Don Nickles signed a 1990 letter promising G.O.P. donors of $10,000 or more an invitation to the Bush White House and a chance to meet with U.S. trade officials and foreign ambassadors...
...after he got his teeth fixed, Lott has advanced himself by assembling such snaggletoothed majorities. As the House Republican whip, or chief vote counter, during the early 1980s, Lott helped forge alliances with both the Boll Weevil Democrats, who were ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass of the Capitol's barbershop...
...exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...