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Wednesday, July 23, 1997
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Gingrich to focus on tax cuts instead of leadership changes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With turmoil swirling in the ranks, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said yesterday that he favors no immediate changes in the GOP leadership despite questions about the role played by top lieutenants in a failed attempt to topple him from power.
Gingrich said he would prefer to keep the focus on the tax cut instead of any challenges to the leadership, said his press secretary, Christina Martin. She said the message had been sent to the speaker's loyalists in advance of today's regularly scheduled closed-door caucus of Republicans.
Other lawmakers said feelings were running high for Majority Leader Dick Armey, GOP Whip Tom DeLay and conference Chairman John Bocher to be called to account this week for their actions earlier this month when Gingrich survived an attempt on his power.
Gingrich made his feelings known as the No. 2 GOP leader, Armney, pleased his innocence in a letter to the Republican rank and file.
"For me, I just want my good name back," wrote Armey, who has consistently minimized his own role in the GOP intrigue. "At this point, I couldn't care less whether I'll be speaker, majority leader or dogcatcher, but I'll be damned if I'll
let my name and honor be destroyed."
Gingrich last week accepted the resignation of New York Rep. Bill Paxon after questions were raised about his role in discussions
with a small group of dissidents about forcing a change at the top
Martin said Gingrich's views were about additional changes related to the present, and shouldn't be interpreted to hold any meaning for the future.
Still, Gingrich's decision reflected a judgment that he and other Republicans would be better served by focusing their energies on reaching a compromise with the White House on major tax cuts and balanced-budget legislation. Party strategists believe President Clinton's signature on those bills would give Republicans a solid record of accomplishment for the 1998 election campaign.
clear that Arney was trying to shore up his standing.
Paxon served in an appointed position within the leadership, while Armey, DeLay and Boehner were elected and can be replaced only by a vote of the rank and file. By his letter and accompanying phone calls to lawmakers, it was
He acknowledged twice having attended meetings with other members of the leadership where scenarios were discussed in the event Gingrich fell from power. He also said that before a climatic series of meetings occurred with the dissidents, he had told Gingrich through an aide that if there was an attempt to throw Gingrich out, they would have to throw him out too.
At the same time, Armey's letter underscores the finger-pointing that has flourished among members of the leadership in the last week.
"I apologize for my initial belief that the dissidents were solely responsible for starting this mess," he said in a declaration that cast blame in the direction of Delay, Paxon, and Boehner without mentioning them by name.
The relationship between the two Texans, Armey and DeLay, seemed particularly strained.
"Never have I said that I was in favor of any plan to remove the speaker, and no member can truthfully say they ever heard me say that, because I didn't," Armey said. Numerous sources have quoted DeLay as telling the dissidents at one late-night meeting that the leadership was ready to help overthrow the speaker.
New pollution rules won't cause farmers big changes
WASHINGTON — Trying to forestall Congressional efforts to delay or kill new pollution regulations, Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner said yesterday that the rules would prevent $500 million in crop damage.
The Associated Press
Agricultural businesses and farm groups have been among the loudest critics of the new regulations, which critics contend could force changes in farm practices, such as plowing that can stir up lots of dust.
"My office has been literally bombarded in the last six months by farmers who are very concerned about these regulations," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said. "They're concerned because they already operate under so much regulation."
But Browner told the Senate Agriculture Committee that large industrial polluters such as power plants were the main focus of the tougher rules on smog-causing
ozone and soot. The rules, enacted last week, will be implemented during the next decade.
"If agricultural production is any part of the air pollution problem at all, it is at best a very small part." Browner said. "The fears and concerns we've heard about the effects on agriculture have been based on misconceptions and misinformation."
One benefit of lower pollution will be higher yields for crops that are damaged by ozone, such as soybeans, wheat, cotton and peanuts. Browner said. In addition, the rules may increase demand for clean-burning gasolines containing ethanol, which is made from corn.
The agency has no interest in rules that restrict farmers' field work, ammonia emissions from animal wastes or burning on private land, Browner said.
"These new air-quality standards will not require any farmer to change the way he or she does his or her job," Browner said.
Nonetheless, lawmakers already
have introduced legislation that would delay the regulations by as long as four years. Opponents said the research was not conclusive and that the benefits might not outweigh higher farm costs for energy and transportation.
"The present approach will only serve to put American agriculture at a competitive disadvantage with other countries and put agricultural producers out of work," said Adam Sharp of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Farmers also are worried that because states will implement the rules, the agency's promises that it will focus on large industrial polluters might not come true.
Browner, however, said it would not be in a state's interests to focus attention on agriculture, which causes virtually no ozone problems and only about 5 percent of soot pollution nationwide.
"Our approach kind of sets the tone," she said. "The states aren't going to do something that is not effective."
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