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...104th Congress, they had better get some rest. For it will be the next 100 days and the 100 after those that will determine the real measure of their success at turning America toward a new course. "We are going to get to a balanced budget in seven years," Gingrich told TIME last week. "It will be so large, so comprehensive and so daring that I don't think anybody is going to say this is business as usual. We are going to eliminate several government departments. This is a scale of change nobody has seen since 1933." The coming...
HENRY HYDE Republican helps bollix Gingrich-blessed term-limits amendment...
Reopening the death penalty debate would have particular resonance in the context of the current Republican agenda in Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about...
...House ethics committee agreed to investigate whether Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) violated his oath of secrecy by identifying aCIA sourceconnected with thedeath of an American citizen in Guatemala. Torricelli, whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...