Burned by the embarrassing performance of Dan Burton, Gingrich is opting for California Republican Christopher Cox to head up this latest Clinton inquiry. "He's a guy who's got strong conservative credentials but is not as wild as Burton," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "Cox had been tapped last year by Gingrich to watch over Burton on the committee investigating campaign finance. So he's somebody who Gingrich trusts, though he doesn't have the stature of somebody like Henry Hyde, who's seen as a sort of sober, fair-minded judge." Nevertheless, without the unpredictable Burton to distract attention, Republicans hope to embarrass Clinton, not themselves, this time around.
Gingrich's China Syndrome
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Unable to get another special prosecutor to investigate President
Clinton, Newt Gingrich will settle for the next best thing: A House
committee. The Speaker said he'd seek (and likely get) a bipartisan panel
to look into whether the President's insatiable need for cash prompted the
White House to promote the export of classified missile technology to
China. Both the White House and Loral, the U.S. aerospace contractor
that worked with China, say they didn't give the Chinese any information they
couldn't obtain by reading the latest edition of Janes.