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05-11-2005, 03:51 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050511/ap_on_go_co/clinton_gingrich
Clinton, Gingrich Unite on Health Care
WASHINGTON - Longtime political foes Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined cheerfully Wednesday to promote legislation on health care changes, joking that some might view it as a sign of a soon-to-come doomsday.
Clinton, D-N.Y., and Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker, appeared outside the Capitol to promote a bill that would modernize medical record-keeping.
The senator joked that their joint effort has raised plenty of eyebrows since they began working together behind closed doors on a panel examining ways to improve military effectiveness.
"At our first meeting when we were agreeing so much with each other I think people thought: 'The End is Near,'" she said.
As first lady, Clinton spearheaded a White House health care reform effort that failed in Congress. The resistance to her effort helped fuel Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" and his rise to the speaker position in 1995.
A decade later, they sound downright chummy.
Clinton, Gingrich Unite on Health Care
WASHINGTON - Longtime political foes Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined cheerfully Wednesday to promote legislation on health care changes, joking that some might view it as a sign of a soon-to-come doomsday.
Clinton, D-N.Y., and Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker, appeared outside the Capitol to promote a bill that would modernize medical record-keeping.
The senator joked that their joint effort has raised plenty of eyebrows since they began working together behind closed doors on a panel examining ways to improve military effectiveness.
"At our first meeting when we were agreeing so much with each other I think people thought: 'The End is Near,'" she said.
As first lady, Clinton spearheaded a White House health care reform effort that failed in Congress. The resistance to her effort helped fuel Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" and his rise to the speaker position in 1995.
A decade later, they sound downright chummy.