U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he would visit the site of the future U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem next week and declared that “the time has come to break the ground” for construction at the site. Although Congress has voted to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Clinton administration has said doing so now would complicate the peace process. Gingrich and Minority Leader Dick Gephart (D-Mo.) are slated to lead a congressional delegation to Israel to celebrate the Jewish state’s jubilee.
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