After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, the money moved from being roughly equal between Democrats and Republicans to very heavily Republican.
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As Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich dedicated much of his energy to improving the lives of the children of the District of Columbia. We are blessed that the Newt and Callisita Gingrich Foundation are continuing that work through this generous donation to Cornerstone,
Now Republicans are joining in on the criticism. Presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have been quoted critiquing the President and the federal response to the disaster. Gingrich wondered, If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack ... an embarrassment.
Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.
Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition also spoke up for Gingrich, calling the speaker's trip to China a cause for pride. ... We should not cave to the president's wishes and pass a budget that does not include the most sweeping tax cuts since the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s. We need tax cuts and we need them now.
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
Both are using legalisms to defend themselves. Gingrich says I did not intend to mislead the committee. ... In the areas where we had more direct control, our campaign and the legal defense fund, as far as I know, the proper Decisions were made, because the proper scrutiny was applied. The Democratic Party case, they've already admitted they did not apply the proper review.
When congressman Newt Gingrich was a graduate student at Tulane University, I baptized him by immersion into the membership of the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church. Perhaps I didn't hold him under long enough.
This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book authors, starting with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.
Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.), chairman of the House GOP campaign committee, told the AP that he has been strategizing with House Speaker Newt Gingrich. People that we had in marginal areas are stronger than we thought, ... We're finding swing districts are looking better for us.
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
The lawyers don't use the word 'lie.' But if someone, in the normal course of events...would have done what Newt Gingrich did to a congressional committee, they would go to jail for that.
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.
What the president did was wrong he should be censured, but not impeached. Rick White and Newt Gingrich shouldn't be dragging us through this. Enough is enough. It's time to get on with the nation's business.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, I am glad now that the election is over to see that the president has agreed that we need to save Medicare. ... remarkable coming from this administration, given how they characterized them last year.