Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawmakers and House candidates gathered under the Capitol dome for a photo-op signing of a new "Contract with America" -- a 10-point platform they said they'd turn into reality if they tip the electoral scales in six weeks. Among the pledges, courtesy of ringleader and House minority whip Newt Gingrich: a balanced-budget amendment, presidential line-item veto, making the death penalty a more common part of American life, term limits and keeping U.S. troops away from U.N. command abroad. BUT CHANGE WON'T COME CHEAP: This evening, the celebrants tripped off to the traditional pre-campaign feed...
...sanguine. Polls show that their losing fight to stop the crime bill left them with the image of obstructionists on an issue many Americans say is the one most important to them. To fend off the impression that his party knows only how to oppose, House minority whip Newt Gingrich will unveil a national platform later this month to which all G.O.P. congressional candidates will be expected to pledge themselves. It will include a list of bills they would promise to produce within 100 days, including a balanced-budget amendment, welfare reform and George Bush's old standby...
Network's summer reruns whip Fox's first N.F.L. broadcast...
...President for a meeting to discuss ways to rejigger the bill. The White House demurred, still hoping to gather the necessary votes among Democrats who jumped ship. But Republicans think the other party has overplayed its hand. "They have to let us be legislators too," insisted House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia. "If they decide to go down the same narrow, partisan, liberal road, they'll lose health care the same...
...doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation itself...