Word: speaker
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...Republicans," says TIME's Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. The House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would be lost, the war would resume, the slaughter of innocents would begin again, and the conflict that already has claimed so many...
...done it again. Speaking before an audience of Republican governors in New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich blamed the welfare, criminal justice and educational systems for a gruesome murderous rampage in which a pregnant woman and two of her children were killed. After the woman was shot to death, her assailants cut open her abdomen with a pair of scissors and pulled out her 8 1/2 month fetus, which survived. "Gingrich appears to have something approaching political Tourette's syndrome," says Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "The list of things he's said and had to apologize for is proving that...
Cantabrigian Arthur Santoro, a speaker on an unrelated topic after the PBHA vote, spontaneously thanked the students "from an old man listening to young people doing great things...
...This is truly one of the historic days of American governmental history." --Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in an attempt to make an otherwise tedious budget debate actually sound interesting...
...Republicans," says TIME's Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. The House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Today, in announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would be lost, the war would resume, the slaughter of innocents would begin again, and the conflict that already has claimed...