Rep. Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is considered the frontrunner to fill Gingrich's shoes as speaker. I will be the next speaker, I believe. I have over a 100 votes or so now, and I need 112, and I'll have them probably in the next few days, ... This Week.
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People say about Lubbock that everybody that comes out of there is either a musician or a dope dealer or something like that. And that's true to a certain extent, because Lubbock is just so... like when I was there, it was dry. There was no way to even get a beer.
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