Word: speaker
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...sometimes unlovely blur of headlong energy and pinwheeling, roughhouse creativity, the Speaker has transformed both the House of Representatives and the Speakership into unprecedented instruments of personal and political power. It has been an amazing performance and, for all its scattershot quality, a display of discipline that is either impressive or scary, depending on one's sympathies...
Having organized an insurrectionist crew in the House, Gingrich seized the initiative from a temporarily passive President and steered the country onto a heading that the Speaker accurately proclaimed to be revolutionary. His venture is in a stormy mid-passage now. It may ultimately be forced back, or even sunk. Yet Gingrich did the work--crude, forceful, effective--that compelled the voyage in the first place. It is for that reason he is Time's Man of the Year...
...GINGRICH WERE TO RUN for president, of course, he might be applying for a job inferior to the one he has created for himself as Speaker of the House. Whatever his fortunes in the polls and in the hands of a special counsel to the House ethics committee, Gingrich has the American genius for reinventing himself. The Gingrich Republicans, however, may be in danger of exercising their party's perverse talent for throwing away its advantages with both hands. Clinton is a superb campaigner, himself a gambler with a gift for new lives. And Republicans underestimate...
...Speaker of the House finds himself in deep trouble this Christmas, which is no surprise for one whose whole career has been a series of near-death experiences. Between ethics charges and budget tantrums, he has become the greatest liability to the revolution he launched. More than half of all Americans disapprove of him, not least for actually doing what he said he would do if given the chance. Gingrich is suffering not only for what he has done, but also for how he did it. Without so much as a decent burial, he has killed the old order...
...House voted 259-128 Friday to allow its members to receive unlimited book royalties, provided that they receive no advances and have their book contracts approved in advance by the Ethics Committee. The measure, proposed by Republican Gerald Solomon of New York, is good news for Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose potentially $2 million in royalty checks is now subject to a $20,040 annual cap on outside income. Not everyone was happy with the vote. House Democratic Whip David Bonior, referring to the current government shutdown, said afterward: "Veterans are still waiting for their checks, kids are being denied their...