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Although the BBA and term limits are substantively different, they are logically twinned; the rationale for the former supports enacting the latter. Consider how the case for a BBA is made in Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America": "Congress has shown itself both unwilling and incapable of balancing the budget. A constitutional amendment is necessary to force lawmakers to do what, on their own, they cannot...
...bills were introduced in the past Congress and none was debated, even at the subcommittee level. That's changing now, but artifice is the rule. Some Democrats favor retroactivity: members already at the limit would be forced out immediately. Others of both parties call for exempting sitting members altogether. Gingrich's dance is the most intricate. Newt, himself a 16-year veteran, says he wants a 12-years-and-you're-out provision, whereas most limit supporters favor a six-year cap. What's possible, then, is numerous House votes on varying schemes, with none garnering the 290 yeas needed...
...Speaker Gingrich's choice for House historian, Kennesaw State professor Christina Jeffrey, quickly became a footnote to history when her controversial evaluation of a 1980s Holocaust education program surfaced, triggering a gleeful fusillade of criticism from Democrats. In 1986, Jeffrey had written that the junior high school program in question contained "no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan." Moving quickly to avoid a prolonged, Clintonian embarrassment, Gingrich fired the professor the same day the evaluation came...
Ethics: What Murdoch and Gingrich talked about...
...AFTERNOON THAT MEDIA BARON RUPERT MURDOCH paid his visit to the Speaker-to-be, Newt Gingrich's one-room Capitol office was in chaos. Extra telephone lines were being installed, and aides were camping out on a floor littered with phone messages. Gingrich, arriving late, waved his hand at the mess and invited Murdoch and two of his lobbyists to an ornate reception room down the hall. There, as caterers set up for a Democratic dinner, the two sat on a bench and talked for 10 to 15 minutes. Their chat was mostly about the election that had swept...