PRESS TURNS SLINGS, ARROWS ON GINGRICH : GOP CONSERVATIVES HOLD KEY TO SPEAKER'S FATE.Byline: Derrick DePledge Knight-Ridder Newspapers Since House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted misleading the House ethics committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. Dec. 21, the nation's opinion makers have published their own verdicts on the speaker's conduct. Some are predictable, others surprising. But for Gingrich loyalists - who fear many of the media are engaged in a conspiracy to discredit conservatives - their words are an unwelcome intrusion on the crowning of a re-elected Republican Congress. ``Punish the Speaker,'' ordered The St. Petersburg Times
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