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...said the agency and White House officials are discussingnew ways to regulate tobacco products. But he did not confirm a report in the New York Times that the agency will recommend to President Clinton that nicotine be classified as an addictive drug. Responding to the Times report, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the FDA had "lost its mind." Seeking to diffuse the situation, Clinton would only say that children should be discouraged from smoking...
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been invited to lead the U.S. delegation to United Nations International Woman's Conference in Beijing, has a diplomatic problem now that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group...
Because the five Republicans on the 10-member House ethics committee would not authorize a formal probe, Democrats have had to find another way to investigate Speaker Newt Gingrich's book deal. The committee now plans to ask the principals to testify under oath about the deal. Scheduled to appear in the next few weeks: a Gingrich congressional aide, two lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, owner of HarperCollins, which publishedGingrich's book "To Renew America," and two executives from publishers whose bids on the book were rejected. Democrats hope the testimony will convince committee Republicans to break the deadlock and authorize...
...seemed unbridgeable differences over how and when to balance the federal budget,President Clintonand Republican leaders today predicted thata compromise can be reached this summer. "We have major differences over how the budget ought to be balanced," the President said after meeting withSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic leaders. "But I think it would be an error to delay it and run the risk of having a crisis in government." Dole and Gingrich made no pledge to budge, but Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said both parties "are committed...
...public may be confused when Gingrich shows up at a bookstore near them. Is he a salesman moving product or Speaker of the House? Is he running for President or just using the will-he-or-won't-he-run titillation to sell books? Which is the real Newt? By day he's preaching family values; by night, at his laptop, he's mocking them...