This is what happens when you have a fundamental difference between the Congress and the president.
Newt Gingrich
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Newt Gingrich is a prominent Republican politician from Georgia, best known for serving as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He played a significant role in the Republican Revolution of the 1990s, leading the party to a majority in the House for the first time in 40 years. Gingrich is recognized for his advocacy of conservative policies, including tax reform and welfare reform, and he was a key architect of the 'Contract with America,' which outlined a legislative agenda for the GOP in the 1994 midterm elections.
You have enough votes in the Senate now to pass every single one of those targeted continuing resolutions if Harry Reid would make then an orders --
I think part of the winning strategy is passing a series of clean, targeted continuing resolutions...
Ted Cruz ran on the grounds that he would fight in Washington. He didn't promise he'd win. He promised he would fight.
The underlying pressure of conservatives has actually moved the base of the Republican Party on this issue a fair distance.
The big difference in Washington today is I don't sense that Barack Obama has anything like the personal skills that Bill Clinton had.
Sure. Look, no one wants the United States to go into default and the United States isn't going to go into default. The treasury has, as you well know, many technical skills dragging this thing on for months. We attach things to the debt…
I think you always have to worry. First of all you don't know what the Iranians are going to do to defend and protect Assad who has become in many, many ways their principal ally.





