Gingrich era: new dawn for RMs. (risk managers) (Inside Risk Management)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, January, 1995 by Pouzar, Ed

The 104th Congress is now in full swing. Newt Gingrich, the new House speaker, has dominated the legislative agenda as few members of Congress ever have. But his dominance isn't the only thing that's new. Equally novel is the fact that here is a politician who has ideas. Always a student of politics, I've also been a participant.

Back in college in Dallas, I worked for former U.S. Rep. Jim Mattox, a liberal Democrat many risk managers know as the Texas attorney general who later filed an antitrust suit against the insurance industry. I was also a town coordinator for Stephen Pierce, a conservative Republican who ran for governor in Massachusetts four years ago. (Alas, I'm one of those who has lost his idealism and moved to the right. As I listened to the election...

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