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...month strike, the White House tossed the issue to Congress. But many lawmakers are reluctant to intervene in labor-management fights that do not involve national security. "We maintain our view that Congress is ill-suited to resolving private labor disputes," said a statement from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole...
Consider the tortured logic and faux piety behind the G.O.P.'s excuses for inaction. Newt Gingrich, prattling on about free-market sanctity, says ``every other industry'' would seek relief if Congress intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other...
Call me a philistine, a Cambridge Newt-onian. I am upset by the headline in last week's Crimson which announced that applications for creative writing courses...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich was taken by surprise when 24 renegade Republicans teamed up with House Democrats late last night to shoot down a "Contract With America" proposal (by a vote of 218-212) that would have revived work on a "Star Wars"-style missile defense system. But GOP House members stuck together today on the far more significant issue of congressional authority over American foreign policy. By a vote of 241-181, the House passed a measure that would restrict the president''s authority to place U.S. troops under foreign command, would cut United Nations funding and would speed...
...from the poor and give to the rich." Clinton wants to raise the wage by 90 cents over a two-year period, from $4.25 to $5.15. Reich pointed out at a press conference today that the last time the minimum wage was raised, in 1991, both Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich supported the idea...