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Tuesday November 10, 1998
Leader of Speaker race unchallenged
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bob Livingston, a pragmatic conservative from Louisiana, took command of the House Speaker race yesterday as his only rival Rep. Christopher Cox of California dropped out and the second-ranking Republican leader paid a courtesy call.
"The truth is, the vote is in," Cox said, who was a formal candidate for less than 72 hours. "Bob Livingston is going to be our next speaker, and I'm withdrawing my name for that reason."
Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas went to visit Livingston in his office across the street, said representative Michele Davis.
"He went over there to congratulate him," she said.
Arney, too, has enough votes to ward off challenges, Davis said. Even so, GOP sources said Rep. Jennifer Dunn of Washington is poised to announce a bid to topple Arney, joining
Rep. Steve Largent of Oklahoma in that race.
Gingrich returned to the Capitol for the first time since Republicans lost seats in last week's midterm elections, an event that led to his decision Friday to step down as speaker.
Livingston, 55, who chairs the Appropriations Committee and was elected last Tuesday to his 11th full term. Cox announced his decision on ABC's Good Morning America, then wrote a letter to fellow Republican lawmakers, saying Livingston deserved unanimous support as he took on the challenge.
As a veteran of the Appropriations Committee, Livingston has spent a career making deals with lawmakers of both parties to build support for legislation. While solidly conservative, he bristled at several points during the last few years when other conservatives wanted to use the spending bills that came out of his committee to carry controversial amendments dealing with social issues.
Gingrich's decision to step down sparks student reactions
By Chad Bottos
Kansan staff writer
Since the surprise announcement last week by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, RGa., that he would not seek reelection for his top leadership post in January, the political world has been spinning the story in many directions.
Some students and other members of the KU community are following the story as it unfolds.
KU Young Republicans president Ward Cook, Mission Hills senior, said there was little doubt that U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., would succeed Gingrich as speaker. He applauded Gingrich's decision not to seek re-election, calling it an honorable and intelligent move.
"He may have been respected and admired by
Republicans, but actually getting things done is something different. "Cook said."
He thought Gintrich realized the party needed this change in order to take back
Gingrich: Leaves past as Speaker of the House.
that a change was necessary because Gingrich's reputation had been hurt.
"He was portrayed as the bad guy far more times than he
deserved," McAvan said.
"When the party was attacked, Gingrich was attacked, and it marred his reputation."
Cook said Republicans had the right ideas for policy but realized the message was not getting across to the public.
"Until we can get the message out like we did in 1994, we're going to lose." Cook said, referring to the Contract with America that swept Republicans into office across the country.
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said after Republicans took control of Congress four years ago, they began to lose control of the agenda.
He added that Kansans will not have a big voice in the leadership decisions because of their lack of seniority after the retirements of leaders such as Sens. Bob Dole and Nancy Kassbeau Baker.
Reno initiates new task force to prevent abortion attacks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno posted a $500,000 reward for the capture of the sniper who killed Barnett Slepian, and she set up a national task force to prosecute and prevent attacks and threats against other abortion providers.
The slaying of Sleipan last month by a rifle shot fired into his suburban Buffalo, N.Y., home was another act of violence in a series of savage attacks against providers of reproductive health care, Remo said at a news conference yesterday.
"These attacks and others seek to undermine a woman's basic constitutional right — the right to reproductive health care," Reno said. "And while some
people may oppose that right, no one should ever use violence to impede it."
In announcing the $500,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Slepian's killer, Reno asked anyone with information to call 1-800-281-1184.
with information on the new National Clinic Violence Task Force will be headed by Bill Lann Lee, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division. Since 1994, the division has brought 27 criminal and 17 civil cases under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
From mid-1994 until early 1996, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., searched in vain for evidence of a national conspiracy behind an earlier wave of ant-abortion violence. It did find evidence used later by other federal grand juries to bring indictments in several clinic arson cases around the country.
The new task force will use federal grand jurists to gather evidence wherever attacks or threats occurred, a senior federal official said, requesting anonymity.
The task force also will train local law enforcement and abortion providers how to respond to and prevent such attacks. Two training sessions already are scheduled for December.
Reno said she wanted federal prosecutors to share information about the requirements for a FACE Act prosecution, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to provide data on bombs
and explosives and the FBI to advise on how acid is used in the attacks. She said the goal was to make sure everyone across the country knew what to look for, how to look for it and how to preserve evidence.
serve evidence. The task force will establish a national database with all information on clinic violence and share it with local law enforcement through clinic violence-working groups already established by U.S. attorneys. It will identify at-risk clinics and improve their security.
clinics and maritime The task force will include civil rights and criminal division attorneys and agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Postal Service
Ruling rejects White House privilege claim
The Associated Press
Rejecting a White House appeal that stems from
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday let stand a ruling that says presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey and other White House lawyers cannot refuse to answer a federal grand jury's questions about possible criminal conduct by government officials.
Rejecting a win in an investigation of President Clinton's relationship Montica Levinsky, the court aimed away arguments that the attorney-client privilege of confidentialityWhite House
privilege of confidentiality extends to a president's White House lawyers.
The action could open the door for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to question Lindsey about his conversations with the president concerning Ms. Lewinsky, barring a White House decision to again raise the separate issue of executive privilege. It also could allow Starr to obtain fresh evidence as impeachment proceedings against Clinton begin in Congress.
Responding to the Supreme Court action, Starr's office said the Clinton administration had "substantially delayed and impeded the grand jury's right to evidence" by invoking various privileges, including the attorney-client claim involving Clinton and Lindsey.
A federal appeals court panel, voting 2-1 last July, ruled that Lindsey could not invoke the privilege to withhold information relating to a criminal defense.
White House counsel Charles Ruff called the court's action disappointing. "We continue to believe that the attorney-client privilege should protect conversations between government officials and government attorneys," he said.
In a separate case, the court refused to shield Secret Service officers from having to testify to federal grand juries about information they learn while protecting the president.
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