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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich became speaker of the United States House of Representatives after the 1994 congressional elections, in which the Republican party gained control of both houses of the Congress. The Republican party’s election platform was summarized in the “Contract with America,” which Gingrich had created and which became the party’s agenda for the new Congress.
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