Word: speaker
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...party] that he has brought." Gingrich is scheduled to visit 25 cities around the U.S. this summer to promote his new book, To Renew America, whose publisher, HarperCollins, is printing 500,000 copies on the first run. Dole aides say they aren't worried about Gingrich; the House Speaker has assured them privately that he has no plans...
...anxious advocates for the poor and elderly fight to stave off budget cuts, the Pentagon seems immune. 0ne would never know it, however, from the rhetoric wielded on behalf of Pentagon spending. "You couldn't fight Desert Storm today," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told TIME, despite Pentagon assertions that the U.S. military is now primed to fight two such wars at once. "We're going to get people killed if we downsize much more...
...Dole's new crusade against sex and violence in Hollywoodis broad-minded enough to include the work of fellow Republican Newt Gingrich, whoseupcoming novelincludes a highly-suggestive passage about a "pouting sex kitten." On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, moderator Tim Russert sprung a reading of the House Speaker's book on the presidential aspirant: "Suddenly the pouting sex kitten gave way to Diana the huntress. She rolled onto him, sitting athwart his chest, her knees pinning his shoulders. 'Tell me, or I'll make you do terrible things."' Asked about the language, Dole said: "It's troubling...
Just a week before a much-ballyhooed visit to the key presidential primary state of New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich hasstirred confusion aplenty on the campaign trailby telling Business Week that he might run for president if 7 million voters signed petitions urging him to do so. "Gingrich simply refuses to close the door on a presidential bid," saysMichael Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "If anything, he has opened it a bit with these comments." The immediate effect is tosteal thunder from the nine GOP candidatesalreadytrying to raise money and support. Gingrich maintained today that he was only...
...Speaker Gingrich said today that if President Clinton follows through on his threat to veto key GOP legislation,the House will shut down parts of the federal government by denying appropriations. "You can veto whatever you want to, " he said in a speech before George business leaders. "But as of October 1, there is no government." Gingrich said that withholding funding for programs the Democrats care about would be a more effective tactic than trying simply to override Clinton's veto. "There's a lot of stuff we don't care if it's never funded," Gingrich said. Withholding...