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Both candidates embraced by the President and even those only marginally connected to Clinton lost elections to Republicans committed to the Contract with America proposed by U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), likely the next Speaker of the House...
...Even Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-Wash.), who rejected an invitation to appear with Clinton in his home state last month, couldn't move far enough away from the administration and lost to another unknown, George Nethercutt...
Foley is also betting that self-interest will win out in the end. "The majority of people in my district think the job of a member of Congress is to constructively support local education, local transportation and law enforcement," he told TIME. The Speaker announced a blizzard of new federal projects for Spokane, including doubling the size of the survival-training school at Fairchild Air Force Base -- a facility, Foley added, that he had helped save from closure. He also noted that Spokane, a city where violent crime already runs well below the national average, will get more new cops...
...first of half a dozen scheduled debates with Nethercutt, Foley even managed to muster something that resembled a sneer as he suggested that his opponent would help "move the speakership of the House from eastern Washington to Georgia," an allusion to would-be Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, in exchange for "the lowest position on the House Agriculture Committee," Nethercutt's presumed assignment. His face deeply flushed, Foley shouted, "I fight every day with greater influence on issue after issue for the people of this district...
...Foley: At home, the Speaker is in an uphill battle...