Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Bush attacked the federal government's legislative branch, about 40 percent of its members showed no signs of opposition. In fact, Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, who normally hits the roof when responding to critics, joined the president in abusing the body that pays his salary...
...Democrats are out to get NEWT GINGRICH, and they've got some unexpected allies across the aisle as the conservative House minority whip campaigns for re-election. Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics. Case in point: House minority leader Robert Michel. Says a Michel aide: "Maybe the Democrats can't get Clinton elected, but at least they should be able to get rid of Newt. It would make our lives up here so much easier...
...reaction generally amongBlacks," says Woods, assistant whip of theCalifornia delegation. "Most of them areDemocrats, and find it difficult to accept adifferent point of view...
...voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980 votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat. Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to win the general election this fall...
...post in a Clinton Administration. But which one? A source close to both Brown and Clinton maintains that Brown wants to start at the top, as Secretary of State, though that might be aiming a bit high. Among his possible successors at the D.N.C.: Tony Coelho, the former House whip who resigned from Congress in 1989 amid questions regarding his use of campaign funds, has reportedly been hinting around about the job for months...