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...What has two legs and is attracted to light?" Roberts asked. "Newt Gingrich...
...propelled grenades and train the Bosnian military. The price tag brought gasps of bipartisan congressional shock. "This is quite an eye-opener," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J.), while House Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) warned that the strategy could "Americanize the war." And Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House Speaker, said there was no way the Administration could spend that amount of money, "given the current budget constraints."Congress is simply playing right into Clinton's hand, explainsTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. Clinton has long been uneasy about U.S. military involvement in Bosnia...
...moment of silence in school, but not a constitutional amendment, which President Clinton on Tuesday had indicated he'd discuss with incoming GOP leaders. "We think we can get it done legislatively without going down the constitutional path," Deputy White House Counsel Joel Klein said. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich, nonetheless, plans to force a House floor vote on an amendment. But the tide may be turning against him. Rep. Bill Goodling (R-Pa.), incoming head of the House Education and Labor Committee, today indicated that he might oppose a plan to introduce prayer in schools: "I would oppose personally...
...discuss it with (the Republicans). . . . I certainly wouldn't rule it out. It depends on what it says." White House advisers downplayed the statement, but it was the first time Clinton ever signaled willingness to play ball on the issue, and GOP leaders, including future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, praised him. But Arthur J. Kropp, president of the progressive People for the American Way, weighed in: "Instead of taking his cues from Newt Gingrich, President Clinton should be standing for the constitutional rights of all schoolchildren."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrichmade an effort to be more statesmanlike in an interview aired last night, apologizing for calling the Clinton White House staff a bunch of "McGoverniks" after Election Day and ruin his "enemies of normal people" remark. "The truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have...