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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.
Let me say that I am delighted that finally we can now get to what I believe the Democratic side agreed to defend, which is the bill introduced by Mr. Gephardt for himself and a host of others in the title H.R. 3600 which I think was the…
Republicans are certainly not for the Federal Government taking away your health control, giving it to a local Governor and State legislature to plan it the way they want to and then saying, ``You have no choice, you must do what that…
The Clinton plan and Mrs. Clinton's testimony guaranteed a lower rate of increase in budget than any Western country has ever gotten, a lower rate than Canada, a lower rate than Germany. And the only way, the only way you can get to that…
This allows the government of a single State, Louisiana, Arkansas, Maryland, Georgia, a single State, to decide to control all the health care in the State.
We certainly do. We move in exactly the direction of a fair market, but let me ask you a question about the plan you're supposedly defending tonight. If you look at this plan, and particularly pages 25 and 109, 110 and 674, it spells out…
I'll give you an answer. There are a lot of ideas that are market oriented. The medical savings account, for example, lowers the cost by some 30 percent when tried by Forbes magazine and Golden Insurance Co. The Steel Case Co. in Michigan…
I think we should keep the Medicare program, and I think we should increase the opportunities for Americans under Medicare to get even better care with even a broader range of choice with less red tape and less bureaucracy, which is why I…
I said the senior citizens of America, over 50 State governments, 50 State legislatures, particularly given, frankly, what we know about corruption in some States, why should we turn people over to those State governments?
But I am so shaken when I see, as I did in the morning paper, your assertion that you would have to pass the plan with only Democratic votes. I am so disheartened when I see your side not willing to work with us on a bipartisan basis, that…
I think in the average State which has compulsory auto insurance, 40 percent of the people do not in fact have auto insurance. I think that is a fact. I think in the District of Columbia, which theoretically has compulsory auto insurance…
Let me start, I guess, with what I find to be the most puzzling part of the whole experience. You and I in a couple of weeks will be going to Russia on a second trip to try to say to the Russians less bureaucracy, less centralization, less…
What I'm saying to you is, if you read starting on page 109, a single State can design a system totally different than the State next to it and could say that you have much fewer choices as a senior citizen.
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