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Some lawmakers, including Congressmen Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Vin Weber, responded positively to Sununu's appeal. But the chief of staff's many enemies in Washington saw an opportunity to take revenge. Republican leader Robert Dole, who has seethed since Sununu helped Bush win the 1988 New Hampshire primary by suggesting that Dole was a closet advocate of higher taxes, coldly spurned him. Then Dole twisted the knife by describing Sununu's phone call to a television interviewer. Some White House officials and G.O.P. political strategists were miffed that Sununu was trying to end run the President. Bush himself...
...rushed forward with nearly a dozen rival plans, including a move by Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York to revive his long- standing proposal to cut Social Security taxes. Not to be outdone by the Democrats, Senate Republican Phil Gramm of Texas and House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia introduced wide-ranging legislation that repeated the Bush Administration's cherished call for reduced capital gains taxes. But a skeptical public remained unimpressed by all the ballyhoo and maneuvering. In a TIME/CNN poll by the firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week, 77% of the 500 adults surveyed said...
...that in one year alone, members of Congress bounced 8,331 checks -- 581 for $1,000 or more -- giving themselves, in effect, interest-free loans. Millionaire lawmakers, said investigators, were among the worst offenders, but the habit was shared by Foley, majority leader Richard Gephardt and minority whip Newt Gingrich, which may help explain the lack of enthusiasm for an investigation among any but the most novice Congressmen. "I wrote one check for insufficient funds," said Gingrich, "and deposited funds to cover it within 48 hours." Period...
Republican House whip Newt Gingrich has praised Thompson as an "activist conservative," and some tout the Governor as a rising G.O.P. star. There are even those Wisconsinites who, having watched ex-second baseman Thompson (he played for the Royall High School Hilltoppers) standing next to ex-first baseman George Bush at last month's major league All-Star game in Toronto, see their Governor as a possible future President. That may seem farfetched. But to many of those who elected Reagan and Bush, a man who tells welfare recipients to get off their rear ends and work for a living...
...House Democratic leaders scrambled to find the votes they need to override a possible presidential veto. It was a spectacle the Republicans enjoyed. "The Democrats are not going to get the votes they need, and that will finish off civil rights for this year," crowed G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich. Privately, civil rights lobbyists acknowledged that Gingrich was right...