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Armey Retires
Era ends.
By
NR Editors
From “The Week,” December 31, 2001,
issue, of National Review
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Armey, the first Republican House majority leader in 40 years, announced
his intent to retire at the end of his term. It was a second blow
to economic conservatives, already contemplating a Senate without
Phil Gramm. Armey, like Gramm an economics professor from Texas, spent
his nine terms as more a policy entrepreneur than politician. His
successes include cutting defense pork with his novel base-closing
commission, winning House approval of school choice for D.C. students,
and uprooting socialism, foreign and domestic, in both the IMF and
agriculture programs. He led the fight against the first Bush's 1990
tax increase, and his fatally accurate diagram of the Clintons' health-care
scheme marked the beginning of its end. Shortly after, he drafted
the Contract with America, marking the beginning of a new era in Washington.
Armey's admirers will miss his dedicated leadership, his unfailing
good humor, and his admirable humility. |
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