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Does he really mean it? After promising a New Hampshire voter five months ago that he would help form a panel on campaign finance reform, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has finally asked President Clinton to collaborate on a 16-member, bipartisan commission to address the issue. "Gingrich has no choice but to be serious," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Not only is it a top priority of the powerful Republican freshman class, it's become a hot campaign issue." Among the early Gingrich proposals: that PACs be limited to $1,000 contributions while raising the individual giving ceiling...
Leif Utne and Mike Nolan, two UMass-Amherst students, opened the rally donning masks of Dole and Gingrich, respectively, and delivering a sarcastic speech about why cuts to student aid were good for the country. the crowd booed resoundingly and eventually broke out into a "Bob Dole sucks" chant...
...afternoon, Utne had scrawled "I suck" on the face of the Gingrich mask and "Fuck Newt" on the backside...
...other students pointed to a renewed interest in activism on the part of student in general. PAN cofounder Eric D. Albert '98 pointed to the contrast between yesterday's protest and a similar rally held in Boston last spring to protest Gingrich's "Contract with America...
Senator Bob Dole and Representative Newt Gingrich emerged from a two-hour White House meeting today without an agreement about whether to temporarily extend the federal government's debt in the absence of a budget. The issue of "linkage," once a term of art in the State Department, is now the hot button on the budget. Even as the House and Senate prepare to reconcile their respective GOP-proposed budget bills, President Clinton is threatening to veto the result. Gingrich nevertheless sounded an optimistic note after the meeting with the President. "We discussed budget issues in general terms," said...