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...year is based less on the trends at the Kennedy School and more on nationwide political shifts. The Republicans held their own conference in 1994 to ideologically mobilize their freshmen representatives in an attempt to ram the Contract with America through Congress in 100 days. Their legislative failure and Newt Gingrich's political freefall have led the GOP to attempt to adopt a more centrist demeanor...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a final push just days before the House votes on whether to re-elect Newt Gingrich as Speaker, the Republican political machine has jumped into action to support its once all-powerful, now flailing leader. As TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, "Virtually everyone of any stature was involved" in the campaign waged to save Newt's job. Even Gingrich himself got on the phone to House Republicans to personally plead for votes, says TIME's Jay Carney. On Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich has made it through an ethics committee investigation with a punishment that will allow him to keep his job, but not without a few dents. A House ethics subcommittee will recommend that Gingrich be reprimanded for admittedly violating House rules, according to the Associated Press, but will stop short of imposing a more serious punishment such as a censure, which would make him ineligible to serve as Speaker. The recommendation is expected to go to the full ethics committee next Wednesday, a day after the House votes to elect a Speaker. Gingrich must...
...Republicans who were leery of re-electing him while he remained under an ethical cloud. Connecticut's Chris Shays, who had threatened to abstain unless the report was released, and New York's Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What remains, however, is the problem House Republicans feared still more: daily partisan warfare over Gingrich that will make it even more difficult for their diminished majority to accomplish anything meaningful...
...this second Era of Good Feelings, who knew what player might be waiting in the wings? In an interview with pbs's Jim Lehrer, Newt Gingrich, rising from the dead and re-elected House majority leader, compared himself to Jackson...