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Business bridles as Gingrich pushes back the GATT agreement...
Gady had meat on his mind. The Clinton Administration had visions of 300,000 new jobs at home by 2004. But instead, members of Congress did what they have been doing a lot lately: they obstructed for the sake of obstructing. For months, House Republican whip Newt Gingrich had assured White House officials in private that he would vote for GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which, according to the White House, could mean the equivalent of a $750 billion worldwide tax cut over the next 10 years through the reduction in the prices of imported goods. Sure...
...most dangerous conservative in America? Bob Dole? Newt Gingrich? Perhaps Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan? Well, according to last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it's a man named Charles Murray...
White House officials decried the contract's fiscal prescriptions as "Voodoo II" -- the same witches' brew that during the 1980s swelled the budget deficit and drove up interest rates. Gingrich and his followers disagreed, but at the same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority...
Republicans: Newt Gingrich's eyes are on the prize...