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...soirees like the one held last Monday at the Washington convention center. The Republican House-Senate dinner raised $8 million by offering guests different levels of access for donations of $10,000 to $100,000; benefits ranged from a photo with G.O.P. congressional leaders to lunch with House Speaker Newt Gingrich to having "a member of Congress or a Senator seated at your table" during the dinner...
...Newt Gingrich has been learning that bitter lesson this year. The Republican House majority he led into Washington two years ago was the most impressive phalanx to enter the capital since the British came to burn it in 1814. As spearhead of the revolution his party was supposed to effect, Gingrich equipped himself heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker...
...sooner had the two candidates recorded their opposition than Newt Gingrich, who has lately been making some Republicans nostalgic for that all too brief period when his policy was to remain in the background, said that if his half-sister, a lesbian, married another woman he would not attend the ceremony. In other words, he publicly turned down an invitation he hadn't been sent to a hypothetical event that could not, at this point, legally take place...
...Dole laid out for us." Lott, whose manner is tougher than Dole's, reassured reporters after the Senate vote that he will not set a more combative tone in his chamber. TIME's James Carney reports: "Even though Lott retains close ties to the House, especially to Newt Gingrich who studied at his knee, he has become wise to the ways of the Senate." Following today's vote, Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles will succeed Lott as the majority whip. Carney notes that Lott's election to the position of majority leader will not significantly affect Senate legislation until after...
...Dole laid out for us." Lott, whose manner is tougher than Dole's, reassured reporters after the Senate vote that he will not set a more combative tone in his chamber. TIME's James Carney reports: "Even though Lott retains close ties to the House, especially to Newt Gingrich who studied at his knee, he has become wise to the ways of the Senate." Following today's vote, Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles will succeed Lott as the majority whip. Carney notes that Lott's election to the position of majority leader will not significantly affect Senate legislation until after...