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...task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass-roots lobbying, fund raising and recruitment of additional members. Its meeting last Thursday-convened four hours after the Boehner confab-was held in a G.O.P.-provided room in the West Front of the Capitol and featured an exhortation by Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...significantly, had not been informed of the deal earlier. As political contributors and officers of the World Jewish Congress, which vehemently opposes U.S. trade with Iran, the Bronfmans have voices that are heard in Washington. Edgar Bronfman Sr. used prearranged meetings with top lawmakers such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole to argue against the deal...
...Newt Gingrich says he's sick of "despicable demagoguery" by the press that depicts Republican reforms ascruel to poor women and children-- the same line Democrats have taken on the House floor this week. "It is shameful when the major newspapers of this country repeat routinely the lies of liberals who are saving the bureaucrats by using the children," Gingrich told 1,000 New York City government, business and civic leaders today. The truth, he said, is that Congress is increasing the school lunch program by 4.5 percent and increasing aid to women and children above Clinton Administration projections. Outside...
President Clinton says that House Speaker Newt Gingrich should have stuck to his guns on a plan to give each poor child in the nation a laptop computer. "I don't think that's a bad idea at all," Clinton told a group of 50 college reporters in Washington today. Gingrich set the idea aside in the face of objections that the program would be too costly. Said the president: "I think that if we had enough resources to teach every poor child in this country how to interact with the whole world of information that's available...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich sternly reminded rebellious House Republicans who are balking on promised GOP tax cuts that President Bush lost his 1992 re-election bid because he reneged on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher...