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...Administration," the New York Times reported. But then, Lott had also been a loyal spear carrier for George W. Bush, shepherding the President's legislative priorities through the Senate in 2001 and 2002. Lott's problem was ancient history. He had been disloyal to Bush's father, siding with Newt Gingrich against the tax increases that President George H.W. Bush proposed in 1990 and dissing Bush the Elder by participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think W. doesn't remember Trent knifing the old man during the Clinton campaign?" a Gingrichite reminded...
...friendly news contact who was always good for a laugh. He once gave me a story-making quote for a scoop in Legal Times about another scandal. It was an account of another G.O.P. congressman saying, at a closed-door January 1997 Republican Conference meeting, that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's own attorney had charged that Gingrich had "lied to him and had deceived the [ethics] committee...
...Hastert has one advantage in the fight to keep his job: most of his House colleagues like the former wrestling coach. His affable personality got him the job in the first place. After Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998 and Louisiana Congressman Bob Livington withdrew after revelations about his marital infidelities, Hastert was plucked out of obscurity to take the reins of the House...
...easy target for President Truman's Democrats, who retook both chambers. Such waves can sneak up. In September 1994 a Congressional Quarterly columnist, voicing the conventional wisdom of the time, wrote that the G.O.P.'s chances of taking the House were "dim." Two months later, Newt Gingrich and company capitalized on disaffection with the Democrats that peaked on Election Day and pulverized the Dems' Capitol Hill majorities...
...idealistic. I want to get back into that environment,” Khazei said. He will lead a study group on “social entrepreneurship” while he writes a book on his City Year experiences. Martin, who was press secretary for then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s, will lead a study group titled “Capitol Hill 101: The Skills Needed to Succeed.” “I’m looking forward to taking in Harvard through the eyes of a Republican,” Martin said. Moose...