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Meet Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Yesterday morning, House Republicans elected him the new minority whip over Rep. Edward Madigan, a highly respected legislator from Illinois...
...defeat, Cheney returned to Wyoming, where in 1978 he won election to the state's sole congressional seat. His path to the Senate has been blocked -- Wyoming has two entrenched Republicans in Malcolm Wallop and Alan Simpson -- so Cheney has concentrated on climbing the House leadership ladder. Voted minority whip last December, he was considered a likely successor to minority leader Bob Michel. He defended the Reagan Administration during Congress's 1987 Iran-contra investigation and joined several G.O.P. colleagues in a harsh dissent from the panel's final report...
...behind Boyd, whip the Brewers...
August 9, Kansas City. The Sox continue to pistol whip the American League opposition and catapult to second place in the East. Boggs has been missing for 10 days. He was last seen in The Can's hotel room photographing him with a blow-up Cap'n Crunch...
From the start, the House electronic tote board showed the adjournment motion, made by House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-Calif.), was losing...