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Hearteningly, many Americans aren't willing to let the Republicans take that risk. On Monday, hundreds of protesters from 31 states brandished lunch trays and forced House Speaker Newt Gingrich to cancel an appearance before 2,500 Washington, D.C. executives. On an even more grass-roots level, nine-year-old Jennifer Halton of Northern California wrote a letter to her Congressional representative asking him to stop the federal cuts proposed in her school lunch program. And President Clinton has said that if the bill gets to him, he will veto...
...agree that jumping George in public may not be all that great an idea. Of course, this could be cool, but otherwise wait to get home. If you're having trouble controlling your urges there are ways to lose the mood. Try thinking about dead puppies. Or Newt Gingrich...
...after his lesbian half-sister Candace visited Capitol Hill to lobby for gay rights, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said workers who are fired because they are homosexual should have no right to sue in federal court. During his daily press conference, the Speaker applied a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" principle to the issue, saying that while employers shouldn't ask, employees should have no recourse. The head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political group represented by Candace Gingrich, speculated that the Speaker is "under pressure from extremists" to make such comments...
...that it will save $6.7 billion over five years by reducing administrative costs. The states, they add, will be better able to ensure that the food goes only to those who qualify. "The argument is not over whether you should have a school-lunch program," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "It's whether you trust the states to have a school-lunch program, or you think the only agency worthy of trust in America is Washington...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich today predicted that the move for a "flat tax" or "consumption tax" that would replace the progressive federal income tax will be a major campaign issue in the 1996 presidential race...