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...Democrat, I find it hard to fathom the recent elections that left both Houses of Congress in Republican hands and made a man named "Newt" Speaker of the House. That man plans to have a political tract he wrote, entitled "Contract With America," read at the start of every business day in Congress for the first 100 days of the next session...
...great challenge for the Democrats, still reeling from their drubbing at the polls, is to keep their footing as the G.O.P. pulls the rug out from under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything but surefooted. Right after the election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where...
Washington's new power couple, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would...
...substantive divide may be even greater than the stylistic one. Gramm and Newt Gingrich, who may run for President even though he's just won the House speakership, will push the House Republicans' "Contract with America," which has a heavy emphasis on supply-side economics. Dole disdained Reaganomics and seems equally unenthusiastic about the contract. "If ((its central features)) come to the Senate," he said last week, "I assume we'd end up voting on them." As for the contract's insistence that the budget can be balanced in five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending...
Republicans have their first shot at running the House of Representatives since 1954. The shift is expected to produce a series of political tremors for the next two years as the Speaker's chair is transferred to the often corrosively partisan Newt Gingrich. The Speaker-in-waiting sent only a limited peace signal to the Clinton Administration -- "Cooperation, yes; compromise, no," -- and wasted little time in blasting "counterculture McGovernicks" and "left-wing elitists" at the White House. Among the Democratic war-horses sent out to pasture by the electorate: Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, Texas' Jack Brooks and Washington's Tom Foley...