Newt Gingrich

I rise for what some Members might find an unusual moment, an appeal to the House to, at least on paper, increase the power of President Clinton. And here we are in the middle of the Bosnian exercise with troops in Haiti and with all sorts…

I simply want to take a minute to recognize my pastor, Ike Reighard, who I think has combined the eternal teachings and wisdom of the Bible with the realities of modern life in such a way that I find, at least, and my wife Marian would…

let me say first of all that on this 91st day, I want to thank everyone on both sides of the aisle. This has been an immense amount of work. And despite the occasional rancor directed at me personally, I think frankly everything has gone…

as Members know, the country voted in November for the Contract With America, and I carry with me on a regular basis a copy of the contract. And as we begin to get them completed, I try to have a hole punch here. No. 6 was strong national…

this is day 43 of our effort to pass the Contract With America, and, as I did a few weeks ago, we finished passing yesterday the six bills which are our effort to meet contract No. 2 which says stop violent criminals, let us get tough with…

I think of this evening as a very historic evening. We have a bipartisan majority that is going to vote for the line item veto. For those who think that this city has to always break down into partisanship, you have a Republican majority…

as the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Watts] pointed out, we do have a Contract With America. We are working very hard. I want to say it was a bipartisan contract in the last few weeks. The line-item veto came out of the Committee on…

I want to take the floor for a second just to say that we are very interested in working with the other side in moving legislation, including fairly small things that might be mutually agreed to, as early as possible. But frankly, as…

I think that Desert Storm was a unique moment, as was the Korean war, in both of those cases involving a large theater level conflict. The United Nations provided virtual total leadership and virtual total military capacity while…

let me start by saying I want to thank my colleague, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spence], for yielding this time to me, and I want to thank the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dellums], who has…

The first point is for those watching who care about America's young men and young women in uniform, those who are worried about America's strength around the world, this bill, when it comes to the floor, is a very dangerous bill. It is…

Mr. Speaker, let me say on the issue of Haiti we are about to make some major decisions in this country that are going to risk the lives of American young men and women that this House has an obligation to debate, and this bill is a…

I very much agree with the last Member's comments about the need for bipartisanship and for working together. I would just say that next week if the defense authorization bill comes to the floor, we will have a chance to be bipartisan and…

I noticed in this morning's newspaper that the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee now believes we are going to need a tax increase for all Americans of up to $40 billion to pay for the Clinton health plan. Mr. Speaker…

let me say I think this is a very sad day for this House on two standards. It is a sad day procedurally, and it is a sad day in substance. Let me talk first about procedure. After 40 years of the Democrats controlling the House, as they…

we need prisons, not press releases, as an answer to crime. There is a great deal of press release material coming up this week on the House floor, but I urge Members to look at the facts about what is going on. I want to lock up every…

I listened in disbelief last night as the President of the United States explained the tactical air strike command and control system for Bosnia. The local U.N. Forces ask the U.N. Commander, who ask the U.N. political advisor, who, if…

I was astonished this morning to see a Democratic leader proposing taxes on Social Security. Yesterday a Democratic leader proposed a cut in the retirement benefit for average and above average incomes, 8.4 percent less for average…

I was going to talk tonight about the death penalty quota system which we had a vote on today, and which I hope a number of my Democratic colleagues are going to vote with us tomorrow in a bipartisan basis to take out of the crime bill. I…

We need a thorough top to bottom revision of American policy in Bosnia. We have to recognize that there are three reasons for the Clinton administration failure in that country. First, the Clinton administration allowed the United Nations…

there is a huge gap between the fact and the fiction of the Clinton administration. It is obvious in Whitewater, but I want to take today's time to talk about fact and fiction in crime. There is a recent report that the Immigration and…

I thank my friend, the gentleman from Florida, for yielding time to me. Let me just say that I was doing some reading recently about a safer America, and I ran across a fascinating story. In 1933, there was an effort to assassinate…

there will be a taxpayers' tea party on April 15, this Friday, in Boston. It will partly be in honor of a new book called ``Taxpayers Tea Party'' by one of my constituents, Sharon Cooper, and Chuck Asay of the Colorado Springs Newspaper…

I am going to talk this evening about renewing American civilization, lessons from a visit to Russia. I want to share with my colleagues that, led by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt], the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Michel], a…

it is very clear from today's Washington Post story that William Kennedy III, associate counsel at the White House, should resign today. The story indicates clearly that he failed to pay his taxes. The story indicates clearly that when he…