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President Clinton used the fourth prime-time news conference of his presidency in an attempt to retake the initiative in a political scene that has increasingly been dominated by Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America. When asked about the troubled nomination of Dr. Henry Foster, the President said he would "go to the mat" for his nominee for Surgeon General. Clinton downplayed the fact that his press conference was only picked up by one major network, saying "I am relevant. The Constitution gives me relevance. A president, especially an activist president has relevance." Clinton sought to paint himself...
...Newt Gingrich kept his promise: the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives capped its first 100 days of power by passing the final bill in its "Contract with America": a five-year, $189 billion corporate- and personal- income-tax cut that Speaker Gingrich called the "crowning jewel" of the party's agenda. Democrats unsuccessfully assaulted the package as a budget-busting giveaway to the rich. The parties' volleys set the front lines for the upcoming battle in the more fiscally conservative Senate, where the fate of the tax cuts-and the rest of the House's nearly unprecedented...
...outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that the Capitol now had "the outer circus and the inner circus...
...DeLay's office there was little cause for celebration. The first vote on $189 billion in tax cuts was less than five hours away, and the G.O.P.'s chief vote counter was still 10 short of what he needed even to get the bill to the floor. What Gingrich dubbed the "crowning jewel" of the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America" was in jeopardy...
...Gingrich the political stakes couldn't have been higher. "It's irrational to think you can hold together a center-right coalition if you don't increase the take-home pay of the workers who are part of your coalition," Gingrich told Time. And while polls generally show that less than 40% of the public would prefer tax cuts to deficit reduction, the Speaker noted that those who do "are all in our coalition...