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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Support for Newt Gingrich continued to weaken Monday as House Banking Committee Chairman James Leach said that Gingrich should step down as Speaker. Leach argued that the reputation of the Congress and Republican control of the House "are clearly jeopardized by (Gingrich's) continued stewardship of the House," adding that the GOP has to choose between "rejuvenated leadership or an ethically damaged speaker." His surprise statement came just hours after a weakened Gingrich predicted he would win the Tuesday vote. Even with defections by Leach and New York Representative Michael Forbes, most House Republicans are expected to endorse...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a final push just days before the House votes on whether to re-elect Newt Gingrich as Speaker, the Republican political machine has jumped into action to support its once all-powerful, now flailing leader. As TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, "Virtually everyone of any stature was involved" in the campaign waged to save Newt's job. Even Gingrich himself got on the phone to House Republicans to personally plead for votes, says TIME's Jay Carney. On Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Speaker Newt Gingrich has made it through an ethics committee investigation with a punishment that will allow him to keep his job, but not without a few dents. A House ethics subcommittee will recommend that Gingrich be reprimanded for admittedly violating House rules, according to the Associated Press, but will stop short of imposing a more serious punishment such as a censure, which would make him ineligible to serve as Speaker. The recommendation is expected to go to the full ethics committee next Wednesday, a day after the House votes to elect a Speaker. Gingrich must...
Attorney Jan Baran, whose roster of G.O.P. clients has included the Republican National Committee, announced that he would no longer appear before the committee as the Speaker's counsel. "I wish to make clear that my firm did not submit any material information to the ethics committee without Mr. Gingrich's prior review and approval," Baran said. Congressman John Linder, a fellow Georgian apparently deputized to speak for the Speaker, acknowledged that Gingrich had filed a false statement with the committee but fired back that any problem was the fault of the lawyer, who "was hired and paid...
...college course. (Though he later insisted he was spreading his ideas, not his politics, Gingrich once boasted that his course, a lecture series carried on cable TV, would produce "200,000 committed activists nationwide before we're through.") Still, the subcommittee last week stopped short of saying the Speaker had broken tax laws by allowing politics to become tangled with the work of a tax-exempt nonprofit group. Instead, it faulted Gingrich for not taking "appropriate steps" to assure that he was complying with the law. Now it is up to the full committee--and perhaps ultimately the entire House...