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Senator D'Amato, meanwhile, licked his chops at the prospect of pursuing without hindrance Paula Jones' allegations against the President. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation quoted at length in this week's New Yorker, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Gingrich presented his vision of an America where "a belief in the Creator is once again at the center of defining being an American" and where the "secular anti-religious view[s] of the left" based on a "core vision of a hedonistic, existentialist America" have been stamped...
...divisions were far below their peak readiness levels. That prompted Representative Floyd Spence, the South Carolina Republican in line to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to charge that "U.S. military units are caught in the early stages of a downward readiness spiral that shows no prospect of easing in the foreseeable future...
Public presentation is another area in which Dodd has the edge. Daschle's a genius at stroking the Senate's outsize egos, but the prospect of his holding his own against the new majority leader, Robert Dole, seems remote. "Bob will eat him for lunch on the talk shows," says a Democratic Senator. "At least with Dodd against Dole you'd get a good matchup...
...cigarette-company executives that + they need not fear any further embarrassing hearings or new antismoking laws when he takes over Energy and Commerce's health subcommittee. And at a postelection barbecue at a German beer garden in Austin, oil and gas producers were drooling in their steins at the prospect of Texas Representative Bill Archer's taking charge of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws for the petroleum industry. Barry Williamson, a Texas Republican official at the barbeque, exulted that since last Tuesday, "the air smells sweeter and the sky is bluer...
...gone, certainly drastically diminished was the prospect of William Jefferson Clinton's gaining a second term as President. A "national sea change," he called it, as he struggled to swim back into the ideological center. But he sounded more like a drowning man. Voters were saying they felt misled. "I voted for him, but he's just got it all wrong about where we all stand on gays and guns and taxes. He sold us a bill of goods is what he did," said Jerry Smith, 42, a machinist in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a new convert to the G.O.P...