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While the high cost of drugs is making Americans cross the border, in Washington it's making politicians nervous. Last Friday Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert found his Illinois office besieged by 300 angry protesters wielding prescription-drug bottles. In Washington, Al Gore staged an event at a local pharmacy to denounce the cost of prescription drugs. In Chicago his Democratic opponent, former Senator Bill Bradley, told health-care professionals that he was committed to providing a Medicare benefit for drugs. And in New Hampshire, Republican Senator John McCain, who is moving up in the polls against front runner...
...Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) paid an ultra low-profile visit to Harvard yesterday...
Gingrich helped to create the "U.S. Commission on National Security--21st Century" when he was speaker. The first section of the group's three-part report, titled "New World Coming," was published Sept...
Gingrich's visit caused a stir at the KSG--even among people used to rubbing elbows with newsmakers. The KSG was abuzz as people compared their sightings of the former speaker...
Gingrich resigned as speaker a year ago in the wake of embarrassing election results resulting in the Republican party losing a number of seats in the House...