Word: newt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recently rattled off six current and former legislators who had come to Washington married to a "high school sweetheart type" back home and then found themselves married a second time to someone a little more "in the game"--a staff member or lobbyist, usually. My friend added, for emphasis, "Newt Gingrich has done it at least twice." People don't just want not to be "the wife"--they also don't want to be married...
...Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the House; John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza
...Republicans to McCain's 22 percent, echoing numbers in December's CNN/USA Today/Gallup nationwide poll. The conservative blog, RightWingNews reported last week that while Condoleezza Rice was the top choice of 230 conservative bloggers for the Republican nomination, Giuliani came in second, beating out U.S. Senator George Allen and Newt Gingrich. Nationwide, Rudy earned a 63 percent favorable rating in a Pew Research Center poll in October...
...tumult. He?ll repackage several longstanding ideas-like tort reform and making permanent the tax cuts that are due to expire in the coming years-as essential to the American economy. He?ll also tout health care reform-especially the idea, endorsed by politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Newt Gingrich, to use technology to lower health care costs-but avoid getting mired in details like expanding Health Savings Accounts, which Bush has been talking up in recent days. These accounts, established in 2003, allow Americans to save for health care expenses in a tax free account so long...
...next week, all three candidates will continue campaigning. The conservative Study Committee has a retreat on January 30-31 where each will speak, as well as conservative icons Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich and George Will. And all three already have plans on Feb. 1 to speak to the Tuesday Group, a coalition of GOP moderates. Neither the moderates nor the conservatives, however, are likely to make a single endorsement en masse, since clusters of each have already endorsed different candidates. Which just goes to show that the once unified congressional Republicans, left to their own devices, can be as fractious...