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Roland Gutierrez: refresh my memory. Was not a big part of Newt Gingrich's so-called Contract With America personal responsibility? Well…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
refresh my memory. Was not a big part of Newt Gingrich's so-called Contract With America personal responsibility? Well, Newt, here is your chance. After 2 years of distortions, distractions and delays, you can finally show some personal responsibility. The ethics committee has directed the special counsel to expand his investigation of you, to determine, in part, whether you failed to-- quote--``provide accurate, reliable and complete information'' to him. It is all about personal responsibility. You like to preach to legal immigrants about it. You like to preach to low-income Americans about it. You like to preach to vulnerable mothers and children about it. Now it is time for you to show some personal responsibility of your own. Since reasons to expand this investigation have been found, you should step down. Newt, you are fond of saying that you are a revolutionary. Why do you not show a revolutionary change in your behavior? Have enough decency to do what you screamed that Jim Wright should do 8 years ago--stop the embarrassment to this institution, stop the embarrassment to this country--step aside as Speaker of the House.
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Roland Gutierrez

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Addressing Newt Gingrich's personal responsibility amid an ethics investigation.

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