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Meet Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Yesterday morning, House Republicans elected him the new minority whip over Rep. Edward Madigan, a highly respected legislator from Illinois...
...Congressman cannot even discuss the possibility of that kind of tax increase without being warned, "Remember what happened to Ullman." Last year, despite the 99% re- election rate, two powerful House Democrats were rejected by the voters. Such dramatic defeats are frightening to legislators, argues G.O.P. Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia, "even if they're statistically irrelevant. It's like fear of flying...
...inheritors of intellectual doubt and malaise, the party that is soft on defense, that perceives America as being on a long, slow decline. The Republicans, by contrast, have successfully cast themselves as the party of stand-tall patriotism and vigilant anti-Communism. As the hawkish Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia put it, "If this election is between George Bush and someone who is more liberal than George McGovern, we win. If it's an election between two competent leaders, we lose...
Author, author! Speaker Jim Wright's nemesis Newt Gingrich has an ethical problem of his own. Democrat David Worley, hoping to win Gingrich's Georgia congressional seat, totes a blank book to campaign stops. The title: What I Did on My Summer Vacation, by Newt Gingrich. It refers to the European trip Gingrich and his family took to do "research," using a $13,000 advance for a book he never wrote...
...leases for Texas Oil & Gas Corp. Though Wright was said to own stock in the company, he did not: he had an interest in a gas well drilled by Texas Oil, but the operations of that well were not affected by the lease controversy. Georgia ! Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich, Wright's chief accuser, has conceded that this charge was based on inaccurate press clippings...