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...minority leadership of the House now moves to Gingrich, who had announced his intention to oppose Michel for the party leadership in the next Republican conference and might well have won. Tired of Gingrich's machinations and no doubt weary after four decades of thankless but exemplary service as minority leader, Michel called it quits. What Gingrich may do with his power makes me cringe, considering his past...
...early 1980s, young GOP House members adopted a new strategy for combatting the insurmountable Democratic majority. Led by Newt Gingrich, they decided to take advantage of C-Span TV cameras situated 24 hours a day in the House chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from...
Michel never got the recognition that other congressional leaders received. The media treats Bob Dole as if he were President--and he acts accordingly. Gingrich, the House minority whip, captures headlines with his quotability and his flamboyance. House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt has never met a TV camera he hasn't liked. And Michel, the quiet man with the kindly gaze, remains in the background and does his job. He is certainly the least wellknown of Congress's leaders, and most Americans would not recognize him if they passed him on the street...
...opposition is mobilizing too. Republican leaders will blast Clinton as a tax-happy promoter of "class warfare," in the words of House minority whip Newt Gingrich. The United Seniors Association vows to have its members send 1 million letters to Washington protesting any tinkering with Social Security. But business groups, while hardly enthusiastic about higher corporate taxes, have been holding their fire; there are some hints that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may wind up endorsing the plan. For all those who have spent years bemoaning deficits, the opportunity to do more than complain about them is finally here...
...former Black Panther whose radical history prompted his opponent, Jack Kemp conservative Jay Walker, to sneer, "He couldn't get a job at K Mart or McDonald's with his past record." Among the incumbents to survive this election year's vitriolic volleyball, sharp-tongued minority whip Newt Gingrich won a tough Georgia race against political neophyte Tony Center. Other household familiars heading back to the Hill include Speaker Tom Foley, who captured a healthy majority in his Washington State district, and House Armed Services Committee chair Les Aspin of Wisconsin. And who will be counted among the missing persons...