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...Gingrich, newly anointed Speaker of the House and slayer of the Old Order, was naturally pleased by this adulation, but also somewhat shaken. True, he had presumed to plan months before the Nov. 8 election exactly how he would lead the Republican House that begins its work this week. But he hadn't planned on having strangers paw at his garments, nor on the intense public and press interest in his every casual utterance, nor on the spectacle of the President scrambling to pull himself aboard the Republican tax-cut bandwagon. Gingrich, who classifies most experiences as either neat...
Right now Americans are divided three ways on Gingrich: they love him, loathe him or can't figure out who he is. But what Gingrich is becoming is this: the pre-eminent political leader in America. As the new Republican * rulers of Congress converge on Washington to begin their reign this week, they will find the Democrats still in shock from their repudiation in the November elections -- and grumbling that they are leaderless to boot. President Clinton, they complain, has yet to frame any coherent strategy for dealing with a Republican-controlled Congress. Said a senior Administration official: "Part...
Though he can be meanspirited (suggesting that Democrats are somehow responsible when a woman in South Carolina admits to drowning her two young sons) and just plain goofy (sponsoring a bill to apply U.S. law to space colonies), Gingrich is providing the energy, imagination and confidence that, at least at this pregnant moment, seem lacking among other leaders of both parties. The new Speaker will gavel the House down to real work three weeks earlier than usual. He will move immediately to slash congressional staff and change the way it operates. He will seek speedy passage of a balanced-budget...
This week the real work starts. From the moment the House convenes on Wednesday, Jan. 4, and through the next 99 days, Gingrich and his new Republican majority will be rushing to pass the 10 major initiatives they spelled out in the contract. "We're going to do marvelous things in '95," Gingrich promised last week. "Come watch us on the fourth; it will be the longest, most working opening day in the history of the U.S. House, and you're going to love it." First on their agenda -- indeed, within minutes of taking their oaths of office -- they will...
...trickiest business in either house could be dealing with the contract's promised tax cuts, which Gingrich hopes to have approved in the House by the end of April. First, Gingrich will have to confront hordes of tax lawyers and lobbyists awakened to the exhilarating smell of a major tax bill brewing. With no new spending programs in the works, the tax bill will be the only game in town for those who make their millions winning special breaks for special interests. Even if Gingrich uses the formidable power of the Speaker's office to assure that a coherent piece...