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Politics as usual is not what America voted for last November. Unfortunately, it's what we're getting. Newt Gingrich's House of representatives has had its fifteen minutes in the sun. Now the Senate has the chance to prove whether it really is "the world's greatest deliberative body...
...Dole and Newt Gingrich didn't quite expect the table to be turned. Their prey had been the President, even though they spoke in statesmanlike tones at a press conference last week. "Come to the Capitol, sit down and visit with Republicans and see if we can't work this out," said Dole in an open invitation to Clinton. Such a summit would tackle the volatile subject of Medicare. Shouldn't the President start handling the crisis? Indeed, as Dole spoke, Gingrich pointed to a precipitous slope indicating Medicare insolvency by the year 2002. And then the questions began...
Welcome to the second 100 Days. The confrontation was merely a taste of what Dole and Gingrich can expect as they begin the hardest part of their agenda: facing the enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies...
...rendezvous with reality" when voters come to understand the impact of proposed cuts in Medicare and scores of other programs. "I predict they're going to experience a number of conversions within their ranks," he said, "especially among those running for re-election next year." House Speaker Newt Gingrich, noting that Gore offered no alternative budget-balancing plan, accused the White House of "taking a walk" on the issue...
...congressional action on his anti-terrorism package, despite GOP warnings that a controversial FBI promotion could stall it. "It needs to pass and pass now," Clinton said. "Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football." He was referring to a suggestion made Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian compound in Waco...