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House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich is expected to demand tomorrow that Democrats strip between $2 billion and $4 billion from the proposed $33 billion crime bill, sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Julie Johnson. But negotiators from the Democratic side hope to get enough votes simply by shifting $315 million currently slated for prevention programs into law enforcement, Johnson says. Meanwhile, President Clinton scored a few points today by convincing three members of the congressional black caucus to allow a full chamber vote on the crime bill. A vote should go down by the end of the week...
...when the GOP is searching for direction. Several factions have developed, but each is hard to pin down. The "religious right" personified by Pat Robertson must contend with moderates like Weld and Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.), who in turn lock horns with ultra-conservatives like Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). With Republicans voting for the Brady Bill and becoming pro-choice, the harsh right-winger seem to be losing ground...
Sensing renewed momentum by the White House, conservative Republicans who have opposed health-care reform for months once more mounted an all-out attack. After Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee tried to build a coalition with tax cuts and other sweeteners, House minority whip Newt Gingrich told colleagues to vote against amendments designed to broaden support for reform. "These guys smell blood," said a top Republican Senate aide. "Republicans believe they are inches away from handing this President a major, major defeat." Some in Clinton's camp, too, would rather fight than compromise. But for now, Clinton...
While Dole responds to the President's State of the Union message: "Our country has health-care problems, but no health-care crisis," Newt Gingrich, House minority whip, frets: "We are in danger of looking like George Bush, really out of touch...
Because much of that increase reflects the daily shooting spree in the nation's inner cities, the fear of crime also cuts across class and racial lines. Republican whip Newt Gingrich may find a receptive audience when he talks about wanting to build stockades on military bases to house prisoners, but so does Jesse Jackson when he urges African Americans to examine the cost $ of black-on-black violence. One day after a group of teenage boys sprayed bullets down the halls of Dunbar High School, in a mostly black neighborhood of Washington, visiting Vice President Al Gore was confronted...