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After conferring with N.R.A. officials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole decided last week to postpone the vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban, which had been scheduled for next month. The official reason was to give priority to antiterrorism legislation requested by the White House. The real problem was the fear of voters' drawing a connection between the N.R.A. and the probable Oklahoma bombers, who may be affiliated with groups that ferociously oppose gun control...
...Oklahoma City an inevitable descent into violence of the American culture wars? Does it mean that critical mass has been reached in the struggle between Newly Feminized America (as represented by Bill Clinton and his Administration) and the Nut-Case Phallocrats (Newt Gingrich, the National Rifle Association and rant radio in unholy collusion...
...Senate returned to work last week as a battle broke out over G.O.P. plans for massive Medicare cuts as part of balancing the budget by 2002. House speaker Newt Gingrich told a seniors' group Friday that Medicare reform would be handled separately from the budget to keep the program from going broke, but G.O.P. sources said the health-care program for the elderly still will play a central role in the party's budget-balancing plans...
...Administration and scores of government programs. The package also calls for large cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings, and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "Support for passing a balanced budget the week after next is overwhelming," House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today. But "people have already started screaming and yelling," one Republican told TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, adding that House members have been asked to look at the list and "categorize the top three they'll get blasted for." Already, Tumulty says, "rump groups" of disgruntled members are forming...
...Newt Gingrichsaid he will step down as chairman of GOPAC, the cash-stuffed political action committee he used to help engineer theRepublican landslide last November. Since the GOP victory, the PAC has come under scrutiny for not disclosing information about donors and has beenthe subject of an ethics complaint. Gingrich's resignation is his latest move to trim his calendar and lower his profile. Earlier this week, he discontinued the Speaker's traditional daily press briefing. He has also stopped teaching a controversial weekend college course...