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QUOTE OF NOTE: "We need to take Souder out, and we will. We will take out a lot of freshman incumbents. The handwriting is on the wall...
...meeting last week between Gingrich and a group of House Republicans, Indiana Representative Mark Souder urged the Speaker to consider some measures that aren't found in the texts of party orthodoxy. Last year, for instance, Republicans in Congress backed an effort to make it easier for employers to withdraw excess money from employee pension funds. Souder argued for a gesture in the opposite direction: making pensions portable, so that a worker who has been laid off can take his pension with him. Gingrich gave back "his kind of tilted-chin, inquisitive look," says Souder. To anyone familiar with...
...House Republicans who bucked Newt Gingrich last week by voting against their leader's back-to-work bill for federal workers may pay for it in campaign dollars. Gingrich backed out of two fundraisers for Indiana Reps. John Hostettler and Mark Souder after the two joined 13 other Republicans on Friday opposing a plan to end the federal shutdown, despite the Speaker's emotional appeal for support. The bill passed easily 401-17 but Gingrich isn't forgetting the slight, altering his schedule to favor those who voted with him. Gingrich aide Tony Blankley confirmed that the votes...
...nothing is more important in proving their credibility to voters. A seven-year budget is, after all, merely a promise--a plan that can be rewritten with each new session of Congress or thrown out completely. "Really, what matters is this first year," says Indiana freshman Mark Souder. "That's what we have to run on." This is another way of saying that a first step is better than a stumble...
This time, the pressure to name an outside counsel comes from both sides of the aisle. Even the vice president of the G.O.P. freshman class, Indiana Representative Mark Souder, is pushing the idea. At the same time, Johnson has been under constant pressure to move forward ever since May, when her committee deadlocked on the issue on a 5-to-5 vote along party lines...