Isn't that amazing? It's like the past has disappeared, and he's actually leading right now in the Florida GOP presidential primary.
From the Washington Post in 1997:
House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.
The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday's vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information.
"Newt has done some things that have embarrassed House Republicans and embarrassed the House," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.). "If [the voters] see more of that, they will question our judgment."
House Democrats are likely to continue to press other ethics charges against Gingrich and the Internal Revenue Service is looking into matters related to the case that came to an end yesterday.
There's more.
From the Washington Post 1998:
Gingrich Steps Down in Face of Rebellion
Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and his wife, Marianne, leave his Marietta, Ga., headquarters Friday. (AP)
Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the charismatic soul of the Republican Revolution whose members turned on him after unexpected losses in Tuesday's election, announced yesterday he will quit as speaker of the House.
His stunning exit came only hours after longtime friend Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.) told reporters he intended to challenge Gingrich when House Republicans meet Nov. 18 to pick their leaders for the 106th Congress.
.."Faced with the narrowest House majority in 33 years, Gingrich bitterly denounced fellow Republicans who used him as a post-election whipping boy: "The ones you see on TV are hateful," he told members. "I am willing to lead, but I won't allow cannibalism."
It was a sudden and spectacular denouement for the onetime college professor and smart-mouthed backbencher who led his party in 1994 to a House majority for the first time in four decades, only to see his triumph, like his personal political fortunes, dwindle four years later.
And now he's back and running for president. I watched on local TV 2 days ago as he had a meet and greet with a large crowd to thunderous applause.
I asked a neighbor who was praising him if she knew he left his first wife when she had cancer, and she said I was trying to bad mouth him. It's amazing.
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