Newt Gingrich

I want to report to the House on the negotiations on flood aid, but before I do, I must report that I just learned to my great delight that Reverend Baggott was in fact a high school student of mine at Newnan where I taught a class. I was…

I want to commend both the Democratic and Republican leaders of this bill who worked together in a bipartisan manner to help develop a Drug-free Community Act that I think is a significant step in the right direction. First of all, I…

This is a historic process, I believe, in two very different ways. It is a historic process in the substance of what we are doing, reforming entitlements, saving a trillion, $100 billion, over the next 10 years, reducing taxes for the…

I want to let the House know that the House is not only working on a balanced budget for America's future, but that we are also making this information available through the Internet, so that every citizen, including Members of the House…

I am standing here in the People's House at the center of freedom, and it is clear to me that for America to be healthy, our House of Representatives must be healthy. The Speaker of the House has a unique responsibility in this regard…

I commend the Committee on Ways and Means on this bipartisan effort to change the law to make clear that the Congress will not accept Internal Revenue agents stepping over their bounds and looking at private tax information purely out of…

the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Bereuter] is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and was a tremendously important part of our trip. It was a very important, I think, congressional delegation to Asia. We had a very…

Let me say to the gentleman, as you know also on April 15, we are going to hold the vote until you get back from Boston, and we are then going to vote on an amendment that would require a supermajority to raise taxes because more and more…

I rise to describe what the Congress has been doing and what I believe it will be doing in the near future, because as we enter the Easter recess at the end of this week, Members will be going home, and I think it is fair for our…

I wanted to take the floor to begin this debate today on the drug war and the specific question of certifying Mexico's role in the drug war to make several points to all of my colleagues which I hope will be noted throughout the debate…

I simply wanted to rise to report to my colleagues and to our citizens that we had a very useful weekend retreat in Hershey on a bipartisan basis to talk about, I think, one of the most difficult and complex things that people do: How to…

I rise in support of a short-term reimposition of the aviation excise taxes through the end of the current fiscal year. I want to take this opportunity to reiterate my strong support of the work underway by Chairman Bill Archer's Ways and…

Thank you, Dick. Let me say to those who voted for me, from the bottom of my heart, thank you; to those who voted for someone else, I hope that I can work with you in such a way that you feel that I am capable of being Speaker of the whole…

let me start by saying I think this is truly a historic evening and that I want to thank everyone on both sides who made this possible. It took a tremendous amount of effort both here and in the other body and in the executive branch. It…

this is, I think, actually a very simple issue. First of all, I commend the gentleman from California for listening carefully to the country and revising this. Members need to understand, any student enrolled in this school year is…

I brought in an official congressional ice bucket, because I thought it was the perfect symbol of what we are trying to do and how it sometimes gets misrepresented. When we became a majority for the first time in 40 years, we were trying…

On July 13, 1995, speaking to the National Governors' Association, President Clinton asked the Governors to send him waivers on welfare and he said, "If you do that, you sign them, you send them to me and we will approve them within 30…

I just rise to report again to my colleagues that we are trying to reach an agreement with the Clinton administration on health reform so that every working family that has health insurance would be able to change jobs, would be able to…

I just wanted to report to my colleagues that we have a real opportunity in the next day or so to reach an agreement with the Clinton administration on guaranteed portability of health care, of health insurance with no preconditions. We…

I simply wanted to rise to note that we are on the verge of a historic achievement. We have a bill which will extend guaranteed portability of health insurance to every American in the health insurance system. That is, you will never again…

I want to rise today and on behalf of the entire House to express to the families of those who were killed 1 year ago and to the people of Oklahoma City who have borne up under such a tragedy the House's condolences, our sense of…

let me say I just wanted to remind our Members, because we were so busy yesterday and it may not have been obvious, how much we got done in 1 day. In 1 day this House sent to the President a landmark freedom-to-farm bill which revises 60…

I would say to him, however, that to describe as a Christmas tree a series of things the American people want is different than describing as a Christmas tree things only politicians want. And I do plead guilty to the charge that on a…

I think there are five questions you have to answer before you decide to vote ``no'' on the Gallegly amendment. The first one is very simple, and it keeps getting asked rhetorically, and I cannot quite believe the answers the liberal…

This is a very small amount of money, but it is symbolically very important, and symbolically important in part for the signal it sends to people, particularly in Africa and Asia, about whether or not the United States is prepared to reach…