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After conferring with N.R.A. officials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole decided last week to postpone the vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban, which had been scheduled for next month. The official reason was to give priority to antiterrorism legislation requested by the White House. The real problem was the fear of voters' drawing a connection between the N.R.A. and the probable Oklahoma bombers, who may be affiliated with groups that ferociously oppose gun control...
...Services Administration and scores of government programs. The package also calls for large cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings, and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "Support for passing a balanced budget the week after next is overwhelming," House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today. But "people have already started screaming and yelling," one Republican told TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, adding that House members have been asked to look at the list and "categorize the top three they'll get blasted for." Already, Tumulty says, "rump groups" of disgruntled members...
Pleading that he is pressed for time,House Speaker Newt Gingrichsaid he will step down as chairman of GOPAC, the cash-stuffed political action committee he used to help engineer theRepublican landslide last November. Since the GOP victory, the PAC has come under scrutiny for not disclosing information about donors and has beenthe subject of an ethics complaint. Gingrich's resignation is his latest move to trim his calendar and lower his profile. Earlier this week, he discontinued the Speaker's traditional daily press briefing. He has also stopped teaching a controversial weekend college course...
...members of Congress exhausted their minds, frayed their tempers and strained their family relationships under the relentless prodding of the Speaker of the House. When medieval monks were subjected to an ascetic life of physical and mental strain, they suffered from hallucinations. Perhaps Republicans have come to believe that Newt Gingrich is King...
...Newt Gingrich recently praised incendiary language as a key to winning elections. Use words like "liar'' and "traitor'' to attack Democrats, he said. Should anyone who values honest debate condone such advice? Is it much wonder that the unhinged can't make the distinction between mere name calling and damning opponents as the embodiment of evil...