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That could well be a violation of irs rules that prohibit tax-exempt organizations from transferring assets to private individuals. It also calls into question Gingrich's claim that he's no Jim Wright--the Democratic Speaker whose ouster he spearheaded--because he never sought to line his own pockets. After taxes, his royalties would have stuffed his pockets with something like $300,000--the amount of his fine. Maybe he should hand it over. If nothing else, it would prove that even when you can't count on the rule of law in Washington, there's always poetic justice...
...fact, a new FDA rule scheduled to go into effect in August will prohibit tobacco companies from selling or giving away products with their brand names or logos on them. Philip Morris is challenging the rule in court. A hearing has been set for February, but appeals could drag on for more than a year...
...Young Turks of the Republican Revolution, Salmon, in his first term, sponsored bills to pay the legal expenses of the seven travel-office employees fired by the White House in 1993, to give the families of murder victims the option of attending the murderer's execution and to prohibit executive-branch employees from accepting gifts...
Kingston won his last election in a landslide and, in this conservative district, is favored to do it again. In Washington he represents his constituents' desire for lower taxes and less government spending. Last June he sponsored an amendment to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from funding any activity it is not directly authorized to perform. And in his district, he holds town meetings almost every weekend to talk with voters and strengthen his consensus...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On the partial-birth-abortion ban] "Some have argued that it is necessary to outlaw a procedure they consider inhumane. But to prohibit its use even in those rare and unfortunate circumstances when it is necessary is even more inhumane...