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...hold their support, Gingrich had to sign on to a proposal by Arizona first-termer John Shadegg. At the Thursday-night meeting in his office, the Speaker promised that on April 15 of next year--tax day, and just six months before the election--Republicans will offer the supermajority as a separate constitutional amendment. Though it's not likely to pass then either, a floor vote should provide priceless ammunition for campaign commercials against Democrats who oppose it. Meanwhile, after their preferred version was defeated in an early vote, virtually all the freshmen lined up to pass the budget amendment...
...Congressional District race to GOP newcomer George Nethercutt. Just 2,174 votes (or 1 percent) down, Foley, the first sitting Speaker dumped since the Civil War, chose not to wait days for the final count -- which, half-completed, favored Nethercutt 55 to 45 percent. What sunk the 15-termer? The mostly-conservative voters couldn't forgive him for joining a 1992 court battle challenging a citizen term limits initiative, ramming through President Clinton's gun-control-heavy crime billand hawking the Clinton health care plan.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
...only occupant of the Oval Office since TIME began in 1923 who was not on our cover, although he was portrayed there before and after his presidency. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won an unprecedented four presidential elections, was our cover subject a mere nine times. By contrast, two-termer Ronald Reagan was pictured on 44 of our domestic covers...
When Guy Hunt became Governor of Alabama in 1987, he won a rare distinction: he was the state's first Republican chief executive since Reconstruction. Now Hunt has acquired a status he is surely less eager to embrace: the 59-year-old two-termer is the first Alabama Governor to be removed from office on a felony conviction. A jury decided Hunt was guilty of looting $200,000 for personal use from the very tax-exempt fund raised for his initial installation...
...very psyched Bush is a one-termer," Hess said. "The pizza's okay...