Word: speaker
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While the whip's basic job is to count votes, getting a sense of where lawmakers stand on an issue, Gingrich is more likely to use the post as a bully pulpit for his legendary Democrat bashing. In 1984 Gingrich enraged then Speaker Tip O'Neill by vehemently accusing Democratic lawmakers of blindness to the Communist threat. It was Gingrich who fomented the House Ethics Committee's investigation of O'Neill's successor, Jim Wright of Texas. In a characteristically antagonistic oratorical flourish, Gingrich accused Wright, as well as other Democratic leaders, of having a "Mussolini-like...
When a reporter called Board of Overseers member Frances Fitzgerald '62 to confirm the governing board's choice of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 as this year's Commencement speaker, Fitzgerald said with surprise, "I thought that was supposed to be sacrosanct...
...fact, Newt's only claim to fame as a House member is that he brought ethics charges against House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas). He alleged that Wright's staff illegally contributed to a book from which the speaker improperly profited...
Gingrich had this to say last week when questioned about Speaker Wright: "I will be...ruthless when ethics are involved...
...speaker also said he has cooperated fully with the investigation being conducted by Shannon and the State Ethics Commission and has ordered his entire staff to do the same. But Keverian did add that the investigation has proceded slowly and that he has told Shannon...