Word: newt
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...practiced at exploiting the group's fears. In 1982 the party stoked anxiety about Social Security reform and picked up 26 seats in the House; in 1986 the same issue toppled the G.O.P. majority that Ronald Reagan had swept into the Senate. And in 1995 Bill Clinton faced down Newt Gingrich and his plan to overhaul Medicare; two government shutdowns and one year later, the issue nearly put the House Republicans back in the minority...
...rare for a Republican president to expand a social welfare program; it is even rarer for Newt L. Gingrich to admit to making a mistake. But Americans were treated to both phenomena last week as President George W. Bush proposed to loosen eligibility laws for legal immigrants regarding the collection of federal food stamps...
...cultivating the leadership only, Bush was trying to create a wartime executive committee that could dictate its will to Congress. Where Clinton had, as a governing tool, courted conflict with Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and even Democrats, Bush thought charming the congressional leadership would yield better results. Like his father, Bush puts politicians into two breeds: on the one hand, "good men" (and women) who can get things done, and on the other hand, obstructionist poseurs. And good men can hail from either party. It's why Bush gives out his highest praise to liberal archenemy Ted Kennedy...
...been having much fun. The conservative Republican was beaten down and marginalized in his behind-the-scenes power struggle with majority whip (and fellow Texan) Tom DeLay, and has been edged aside in the day-to-day House operation by Speaker Denny Hastert, who is more engaged than predecessor Newt Gingrich...
...President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich created the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, which I co-chaired with Warren Rudman, to propose a new national security framework. We concluded that America would become increasingly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, and that Americans would likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers. Last January we urged the creation of a National Homeland Security Agency, one created by statute, with budgetary authority, whose director would be confirmed by the Senate and stand accountable to the President and Congress. This new agency, to be effective, must be even more powerful...