FILE- In this March 7, 1995, file photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, center, and his press secretary, Tony Blankly, left, meet with reporters during a daily Capitol Hill news conference. Blankley, a conservative author and commentator who served as press secretary to Newt Gingrich during the 1990s, when Republicans took control of Congress, died Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. He was 63. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File)