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King of the Hill Newt Gingrich brings an open mind and needed enthusiasm to Congress [Cover Stories, Jan. 9], which was in a coma for years until Election Day results woke it up. Most citizens are simply asking our legislators to listen to the heartbeat of middle-class America. Give 'em hell, Newt...
...hope Gingrich will come to realize that he was elected by a simple majority of people in his small congressional district in Georgia. He does not speak for all America, and he does not speak for me. His talk about bipartisanship and working for the American people is overshadowed by his continued references to socialists and the counterculture. I desperately hope that Gingrich is not what America decided it wanted when it voted in November...
...weeks despite the narrow majority of its support there. "I believe we are going to do the same thing in the Senate," Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.), a leading Democratic proponent, said today, but added: "It's by no means certain." Similar hedging came from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who nonetheless crowed after Thursday's bipartisan vote: "This is a historic moment for our country." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says the Senate GOP leadership will have to campaign hard to overcome an expected challenge from the body's most formidable Democratic obstructionist, West Virginia's Sen. Robert Byrd...
...contingent of 26 House Democrats, under heavy lobbying by the National Rifle association, sent Speaker Newt Gingrich a letter Wednesday pledging to help him repeal the assault weapons ban passed last summer as part of President Clinton's hard-won crime bill. The letter, delivered the morning after Clinton vowed during his State of the Union address to fight to turn back any attempts to repeal the ban, says the conservative Democrats are "resolute in our commitment to repealing this ill-conceived measure at the first opportunity." Gingrich has called the repeal "inevitable." But the Speaker "doesn't want...
...will be forced to take "drastic steps": all 10 remaining active-duty Army divisions would lose their top readiness ratings, and the Air Force, Navy and Marines would drastically cut flying time and training exercises. Some worried House Approriations subcommittee members reportedly dashed off to lobby House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said, "I'm a hawk, but I'm a cheap hawk...