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Mississippi GOP Sen. Trent Lott, an ideological ally of future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, a moderate peacemaker, won election to key Senate posts today, each by a one- vote margin. Lott became Senate GOP Whip, unseating veteran Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), incoming Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard...
...elevation of Lott is "Newt Gingrich winning another election," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, who sees presidential politics at play: Lott is a "stalking horse" for Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who's expected to be a Dole rival for the 1996 GOP presidential nomination. "As long as he has to turn over the keys to Lott, it's going to be difficult for (Dole) to leave (D.C.) while he runs for president," she says. As for the Dems: "Dodd was definitely going to put a harder edge on their message." But the more moderate Daschle has a problem...
Senator D'Amato, meanwhile, licked his chops at the prospect of pursuing without hindrance Paula Jones' allegations against the President. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation quoted at length in this week's New Yorker, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Gingrich presented his vision of an America where "a belief in the Creator is once again at the center of defining being an American" and where the "secular anti-religious view[s] of the left" based on a "core vision of a hedonistic, existentialist America" have been stamped...
...Newt Gingrich, for all his talk of a Creator, refused to demonstrate the basic human compassion that a belief in any Creator demands. He talked of prayer in schools, but did not mention the homeless people who we see every day walking the streets of Boston and New York. He could not address the xenophobia and racism that spawned Proposition 187 in California, or the proliferation of guns on our streets that even a few weeks ago allowed a deranged man to fire 15 shots from an automatic weapon into the White House...
...House ethics committee -- whichincoming Speaker Newt Gingrichrecently considered folding -- today took up a festering mini-scandal concerning Gingrich himself. A new complaint from the candidate Gingrich recently defeated, Democratic Rep. Ben Jones, alleges newly obtained phone records show there were frequent calls about a college course taught by Gingrich, involving the Georgia Republican's congressional staff and his political action committee (known as GOPAC). A committee letter said the documents raise questions about whether the activity was, in fact, partisan. But some on the bipartisan panel are angry the letter was leaked to the press, saying it's unclear that...