Word: speaker
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...give up on a part of the legislation that would require a super majority (3/5) vote in both the House and Senate on any bill that raises income taxes. The amendment bill won't be voted on until work is finished on legislation blocking unfunded mandates -- something House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said is priority one. Work on that measure is temporarily stalled in the House and Senate...
...from the sidelines. He quickly exited after the festivities were over. Asked by TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...
...broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual, too nasty to invoke outside gangsta rap and the barracks. "Remember," says language expert and New York Times columnist William Safire, "it's so offensive that Barbara Bush didn't use it but said...
...first time in 40 years, Republicans took control of both chambers of Congress. Pledging to strive for bipartisan cooperation, Newt Gingrich took up the Speaker's gavel and, as promised, immediately plunged the House into a marathon session devoted to enacting sweeping rule changes. Among the many provisions adopted (with Democratic support): committee staff reductions and the elimination of some committees and subcommittees; the opening of more committee meetings to the public and TV; and the imposition of limits on how long a member may serve as Speaker or committee chairman. The Representatives also voted to require a three-fifths...
...Speaker's agenda defies his rhetoric...