Word: newt
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...election did not, as many Democrats had hoped, put the Democrats back in the majority in Congress. Newt Gingrich and his allies in Congress realized the unpopularity of their ideas well before the election. Republicans often accuse Bill Clinton of talking like a Republican, but this year it was Republicans who were talking like Democrats. Republicans took credit for the increase in the minimum wage and the health insurance reform bill that came out of the 104th Congress only after a tremendous fight by Democrats and massive resistance from Republicans. Republicans tried to excuse their inexcusable raids on Medicare while...
...party was Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Lott, who took over the Senate leadership after Bob Dole resigned to focus on his presidential bid, was re-elected Tuesday by his colleagues to lead the 105th Congress. While the 104th Congress was defined by the aggressive, sometimes bellicose, style of Newt Gingrich, this legislative session should be shaped by Lott's more conciliatory, though still conservative, approach. Shortly after being chosen without opposition, Lott said the GOP and Clinton could work together on balancing the budget, cutting taxes and other issues. "We look forward to working with the President...
DIED. ROBERT GINGRICH, 71, adoptive father of Newt Gingrich; hours before his son was renominated as House Speaker; of lung cancer; in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
...Member ho-down have RSVP'd in the affirmative, though she declined to cite party breakdown. Campion and other K-School administrators will point out that Congress endorsed no official initiation program in 1994, but it was widely reported at the time that the new speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, instructed his newfound acolytes to attend a conference at the ultra-conservative Brookings Institution in Baltimore instead. The dozen or so newly-elected Democrats--too paltry for their gathering to be called a convention--simply went without the usual K-School information session as Harvard decided to cancel...
When House Republicans convene this week to elect their leaders, Newt Gingrich's will be the only name put in nomination for Speaker. But such a show of confidence would have been much sweeter had Gingrich not spent last week beating back a minirevolt among former loyalists...