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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.

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Mar 16, 1994

At the option of the State the system may provide for the enrollment of Medicare individuals residing in the State.

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Mar 16, 1994

I was on a college campus in Georgia. A women got up, a student, who was a native American, and she said she had to speak out, that if every American understood how bad Government health care is on the Indian reservations, they would not…

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Mar 15, 1994

I am going to talk this morning about the politics of self-destruction and the politics of self-deception. I am citing, as my text, two articles in this morning's Washington Post, because today's Washington Post has two stories that will…

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Mar 11, 1994

I am very, very grateful to all allowed to serve with John Kasich and the team he has put together on the Committee on the Budget, because these Members, as the Washington Post, hardly a Republican bastion, has said, they have produced a…

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Mar 8, 1994

I am just curious. Since apparently the Congressional Budget Office could never actually get this work out in terms of scoring everything satisfactorily, and since we are now 3 weeks ahead of the normal budget schedule, is there a reason…

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Mar 8, 1994

I rise today to urge the Democratic leadership here in the House to abandon the health care process that I believe has started this morning in the subcommittee of the gentleman from California. Let me report to my colleagues that my…

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Mar 7, 1994

I rise today to put in the Record three letters. One is a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno concerning Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, suggesting that given all of the recent allegations that he be suspended pending a…

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Mar 3, 1994

I want to recommend to the President and his senior staff that they read today's column by Al Hunt in the Wall Street Journal entitled ``Whitewater: It's the Coverup More Than the Deal.'' There was a point where President Nixon could have…

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Mar 3, 1994

let me say first of all that I want to thank the Speaker for the way in which he briefed the House and briefed the country today. I think it is an important part of this institution to remind people how human it is. I think every heart…

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Mar 3, 1994

I might say to my friend, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost], I tried to make that clear when I said there had been a miscommunication earlier about this particular day, and that I take the responsibility for having made an error. I…

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Feb 23, 1994

before we get to another matter, let me just say for a minute, following on what we did Friday a week ago where we had a bipartisan agreement between the leaderships to look into the various activities surrounding the paying back of…

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Feb 11, 1994

I believe, as does the leadership of my party, that the matter was so serious that it warrants being looked into by the House. It is my understanding that during the break, that the majority agreed that we will have staff looking into it…

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