Word: paxon
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...members of the ethics committee to make such a statement while a case is still under investigation is highly unusual. Even more unusual, however, is the way the letter originated. Schiff told TIME that it was prepared in response to urgings by Representatives Bill Paxon of New York and John Linder of Georgia, respectively the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the National Republican Congressional Committee. For weeks, both men had been pressing G.O.P. House members in general to get behind Gingrich, advice that would be taken seriously by anybody expecting to need campaign funding...
...Schiff says Paxon and Linder also reached into the ethics committee itself, first approaching him and Goss several weeks ago to propose that they make public whatever they properly could from the investigation. "Bill Paxon and John Linder had said to us on several occasions they were looking for all possible ways of getting information out to Republican members that could be legally released before the speakership vote, because they said their phones were ringing off the wall with respect to members calling and asking questions. So we knew the leadership wanted--at least that portion of the leadership wanted...
...describing his contacts with Paxon and Linder, Schiff said, "I talked with each of them, probably on a couple of occasions each, and the one thing they each wanted from myself, and, I believe, Porter also, was to know how could as much information as possible be released publicly as soon as possible." What's more, Schiff says he first heard of the letter when an aide to a member of the Republican House leadership read him Goss's handwritten text over the phone and asked if he would join in signing it. Paxon insisted that Schiff and Goss...
With early but clear signs of a meltdown flashing around them, Gingrich and the rest of the House leadership, including majority leader Dick Armey and House whip Tom DeLay, went into the final phase of a furious attempt at damage control. Within a day of Forbes' announcement, Paxon and Armey had organized a giant conference call connecting more than 100 House Republicans. From his home in Marietta, Georgia, Gingrich connected by phone on Tuesday morning with Armey in Washington. "I need an honest appraisal," Gingrich told him. "How does it look...
...council, he regularly weighs in on foreign-policy matters during morning senior staff meetings with the President, offering opinions on everything from Middle East peace to international trade to the Cuban economic embargo. "Karl has the absolute, utter trust of the President of the United States," says Bill Paxon, a prominent G.O.P. operative and former Congressman with close ties to the White House. "That's really what makes him so good...