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...fact, Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," compared with Perot's manifesto, is timid in attacking the deficit and ignores other major items on Perot's priority list as well. Even legislators who have enjoyed explicit support from Perot have stiffed him on such critical issues as nafta, gatt and the Administration's effort to nourish Mexico's anemic currency. When Congress was considering gatt last November, Perot warned that if the trade agreement was approved, which it was, United We Stand would consider forming a new party. Local chapters all over the country-prodded by national headquarters in Dallas...
...will have to cut line by line. In the House, Republicans on the Appropriations committee last week sent to the floor a record $17.3 billion in cuts from this year's $1.5 trillion budget. It meant reductions in job training, housing, education and public broadcasting. Last week House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent Clinton a letter urging him to submit within a month a plan outlining the cuts he would make to balance the budget in seven years. That would have the President putting his numbers out several weeks before House Republicans. After you, said Clinton. At his news conference last...
Markedly out of step with Newt Gingrich's headlong march to the future, Dole's campaign evokes a more heroic era. Dole first started giving new thought to running during last summer's D-day anniversary celebrations, where other veterans greeted him as a hero, bringing their children and grandchildren to meet him. Until then, he had agreed with the idea that Bill Clinton's election marked a new generation. Now, he believes he has been given another chance: "Maybe there is one more mission. Maybe there is one more call to serve...
Citizens, counter-culture McGoverniks have taken over our universities and threaten our national defense. But the fight is not lost. Speaker Newt is on our side...
Hearteningly, many Americans aren't willing to let the Republicans take that risk. On Monday, hundreds of protesters from 31 states brandished lunch trays and forced House Speaker Newt Gingrich to cancel an appearance before 2,500 Washington, D.C. executives. On an even more grass-roots level, nine-year-old Jennifer Halton of Northern California wrote a letter to her Congressional representative asking him to stop the federal cuts proposed in her school lunch program. And President Clinton has said that if the bill gets to him, he will veto...