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The contract provided substance behind the rhetoric. 41 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: It's remarkable, how wonderful winning is, and it can change 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: people's views of everything. On this episode of News World, 43 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: we're going to explore a historic moment twenty five years 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:45,119 Speaker 1: ago in November nineteen ninety four, when the Republican Revolution 45 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: took control of the House for the first time in 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: forty years, using a concept called the Contract of America. 47 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: It was a remarkable moment because for forty years, the 48 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: same party, the same ideology, had been and control the 49 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: House without much challenge. And suddenly at the end of 50 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: that forty years they were defeated decisively and you had 51 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: new people, new chairman, new leaders, new speaker, all moving 52 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: the country in a significantly different direction. The gap between 53 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: the liberalism of the Democrats and the conservatism of the 54 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Republicans meant that shifting power in the House decisively, shifting 55 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: power in Washington made it possible to reform welfare, to 56 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: balance the federal budget, to have a whole series of 57 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: changes that could never have occurred without some kind of 58 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: breakup of the old order. And in that process, the 59 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: Contract with America a specific pledge to the American people 60 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: that if you elect us, we will do these things. 61 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: That contract became the tool which enabled US to end 62 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: four decades of one party rule and to create a 63 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: period of dramatic reform and dramatic change. I'm delighted that 64 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: tonight on Fox News at eight pm Eastern, on the 65 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary of the Contract with America, I think 66 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: we're once again in a period where there are big 67 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: decisions to be made, big questions to be answered. And 68 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: when you look back on what happened with the Contract 69 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: with America in the nineteen ninety four election, it was 70 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: a moment of decisive change. When I say decisive, think 71 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: about this. For forty years, from the election of nineteen 72 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: fifty four to the election of nineteen ninety four, the 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: Democrats controlled the US House of Representatives. Now that included 74 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: President Eisenhower's re election, President Nixon's election, President Reagan's election 75 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: and reelection, and President George H. W. Bush's election. Yet 76 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: no matter what the Republicans were doing at the presidential level, 77 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: and that included some control of the US Senate, they 78 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: could never break through in the House. And so suddenly 79 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: here we were. Forty years of Democratic control ceases in 80 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: one evening. And a major part of that was the 81 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: adoption by the House Republicans of a contract with America, 82 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: a contract that was important, first of all, because it 83 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: was about things the American people wanted. It was about 84 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: balancing the budget. It's about reforming the Congress. It was 85 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: about reforming welfare. It was about cutting taxes, said a 86 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: series of steps that seventy or eighty percent American people 87 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: really wanted to have Congress take, and they really knew 88 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: that the Democrats had failed to take them. And so 89 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: after forty years, exhaustion had set it and they were 90 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: ready for something new. It was also historic because it 91 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: shifted decisively the balance of power. Think about this, for 92 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: four decades, people knew the Democrats had been in charge 93 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: of the House. You'd go out to recruit somebody to 94 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: run for Congress, and if you're a Republican, you know, 95 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: and they know you're recruiting him to serve in the minority. 96 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat, you know and they know you're 97 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: recruiting him to serve in the majority. So it was 98 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: much easier for Democrats to recruit, much harder for Republicans 99 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: to recruit. And these things become self fulfilling. Prophecies on 100 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: the contract, on its importance, on how it happened. I 101 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: think it'll be a great Civics lesson because there were 102 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: things that were done that could be done again, but 103 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: that were quite remarkable. First of all, it was a 104 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: team effort. It wasn't one or two or three people. 105 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: I ended up becoming Speaker of the House, but that's 106 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: because there was a whole team. Congress when Bob Walker, 107 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,679 Speaker 1: who had been my ally for years, played a major 108 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: role in thinking through how to make this happen. We 109 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: had a whole series of dinners in the basement of 110 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: Tortilla Coast to talk through how we were going to 111 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: make this into a real successful revolution. The people who 112 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: I remember being there were Dick Army, Tom Delay, Bill Paxson, Newton, myself. 113 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: They came out of there thinking that we can all 114 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: work together and trust each other to do the heavy 115 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: lifting and not cut and run on each other. Congressman 116 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: Dick Armey, who was the chair of the conference and 117 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: became the Majority leader, played a key role in organizing 118 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: the legislation. Dan Meyer, who today is working for Republican 119 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: Leader Kevin McCarthy, was at that time my chief of staff, 120 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: played a decisive role. Joe Gaylord, who has been my 121 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: partner on politics since yearly nineteen eighties. He was on 122 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: the whole journey with me year after year. Remember I 123 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: came into Congress in nineteen seventy eight and I said, 124 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: we need to become a majority. We've been been a 125 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: minority for twenty four years. Well, we lost in eighty 126 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: eighty two, eighty four, eighty six, eighty eighth, ninety ninety two. 127 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: You know, I was getting a little a tarring by 128 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: that stage. Finally we won in ninety four. And sometimes 129 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: people go, boy ekays, sure, we're lucky. No, we were lucky, 130 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: But more importantly, we were prepared. We had grown a 131 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: team ready to go out and win the election. And frankly, 132 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: it took a team. It's a big country. One of 133 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: the lessons I think for the Republicans in Congress today 134 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: is to think about, how are you going to have 135 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: big enough issues, How are you going to recruit good 136 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: enough people, How are you going to run a national 137 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: campaign where people get up in the morning and say, yes, 138 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: I want them to win. So this twenty fifth anniversary, 139 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: I think is a very useful moment before we get 140 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: into the actual two thousand twenty campaign, to think about 141 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: how politics works. In America, how government works in America. 142 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: We picked up fifty three seats that year. Nobody expected that. 143 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: It was a remarkable breakthrough. The Democratic Speaker of the House, 144 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: Tom Fawley lost. The Democratic Chairman of the Ways and 145 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski, who was in a very Democratic 146 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: district in downtown Chicago. Nobody thought he was in trouble. 147 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: He lost again and again. We were able to reach 148 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: out and we ran in all except three districts. Out 149 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: of four hundred and thirty five districts in nineteen ninety four, 150 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty two of them had Republican candidates. 151 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: So we were the most competitive we'd ever been in 152 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: modern times, and I think that took a real commitment. Now, 153 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: the Capital Steps event was the second time we'd done that. 154 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: We actually did the first one back in nineteen eighty. 155 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: It was a remarkable moment. I had been approached by 156 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: Republican National Committee Chairman Bill Brock with the idea that 157 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: maybe we could get all of our House and send 158 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: it candidates to stand on the steps with Governor Reagan 159 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: and with George H. W. Bush as vice presidential nominee, 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: and pledged that we would do a set of things. 161 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: I really wanted to do it because I knew that 162 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: my good friend Mac Mattingley, who was running for the 163 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: Senate that year in Georgia, was going to come very 164 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: close to beating incumbent Senator Herman Talmage, who had a 165 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: big scandal and who'd had a very strong Democratic opponent 166 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: in the primary. But that probably Mac couldn't quite get 167 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: the last two or three or four percent, and he 168 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: needed some boost from Reagan to get over the top. 169 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: And so we put together an event and in the 170 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: fall of nineteen eighty, for the first time ever, we 171 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: had a chance to bring all the Republican candidates together 172 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: to commit to a series of specific, big ideas, all 173 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: of them based on the Reagan campaign. And the result 174 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: was we picked up twelve US Senate seats, one control 175 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: the Senate when nobody thought we would. Six of those 176 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: twelve we won by a combined total of seventy five 177 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: thousand votes. So she can sived that that Capital Steps 178 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: event really made a big difference. Now in that setting, 179 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: as we came up through the years, and when we 180 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: got to nineteen ninety four, we said, well, let's learn 181 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: some lessons from that and let me be clear, A 182 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: lot of all we did was standing on Ronald Reagan's shoulders. 183 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: He'd campaigned on welfare reform since nineteen sixty five running 184 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: for governor. He was deeply committed to a balanced budget. 185 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: He believed in lower taxes. A lot of the pieces 186 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: of our concept grew out of Reagan and his belief system, 187 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: and that made it easier for our members to rally 188 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: together and decide that they wanted to be part of 189 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: this kind of a contract. Now. We decided just instinctively 190 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: that we wanted to do a contract. The reason was 191 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 1: people were used to candidates making promises and we needed 192 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: to have something different. We need to have a flavor 193 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: that said, look, we're really serious about this. Because we 194 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: wanted to convince a lot of people who normally didn't 195 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: vote in and off here that this was worth they're 196 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: going out and voting for. So we called it a contract. 197 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: We really worked very hard to build publicity. I come 198 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: out of a school that believes that repetition beats everything else. 199 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: Partly I suspect because I represented Atlanta and the Coca 200 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: Cola model was that you had to hear the word 201 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: Coca cola seven times a week to be reminded about 202 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: a product which began in the eighteen seventies. So I 203 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: really understood the idea of a repetition, and so we 204 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: wanted all the way through. Starting in May June, began 205 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,599 Speaker 1: talking about the idea of a contract, talking about the 206 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: ideas that go into it. We developed it. We got 207 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: Halle Barbour in the Republican National Committee to pay for 208 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: two full page ad in TV Guide, the most expensive 209 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: ad ever taken on behalf of the House Republicans. Newt's 210 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: big idea, We're gonna put an ad in TV Guide. 211 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: The idea was we're gonna put it an insert in 212 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: there about contract with America, and the message is if 213 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: you elect Republicans to run the House Representatives, if we 214 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: win the House of Representatives, this is what we pledge 215 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: we'll do now to sign of how the world has changed. 216 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: But back then TV Guide was the biggest magazine in America. 217 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: Nobody in the House Republican Party, after forty years in 218 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: the minority, thought it was possible to get that kind 219 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: of attention, and so Halley Barber gave us a commitment 220 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: that really worked, and as a result, our members that 221 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: a sense of excitement. Now it also meant they had 222 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: to be for the contract. So one of the interesting 223 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: processes that we went through was convincing the members, look, 224 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: we're all going to go out here in the Capitol steps. 225 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: We're all going to sign the contract. And we had 226 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: a handful of members who didn't want to, but all 227 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: but three of them did sign it, and as a result, 228 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: you had a huge momentum of positive thought. Today on 229 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: these steps, we are for this contract as a first 230 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: step towards renewing American civilization. I am going to sign 231 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: the contract now, as the last member to do so. 232 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: On behalf of the Republican Conference. We had actually pretty 233 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: good rule of thumb for what made an issue part 234 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: of the contract. Remember you'd picked tons of things, and 235 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: I had two sets of rules. The first one was 236 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: not to put anything in which would allow the Newer 237 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: Times in the Washington Post to attack us as extremists. 238 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: I personally believed in school prayer, I personally very strongly 239 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: committed on issues of life. But I knew if we 240 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: put those two in, the entire thing would be distorted 241 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: and our liberal news media would attack us for putting 242 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: the other a right wing documents. So we avoided giving 243 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: our opponents in the media an easy target. The second 244 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: thing we did is we had a ground rule. Everything 245 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: had to be at least seventy and preferable eighty percent approval. 246 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: We knew, for example, that there was overwhelming support for 247 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: welfare reform. The people believe in the work ethic, They 248 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: were tired of paying people to be dependent, and so 249 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: we were able to go out and we were able 250 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: to put together a welfare reform plank. And why did 251 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: that matter? Well, it mattered because if you're going to 252 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: run as a party which has not been in power 253 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: for forty years, if you're going to run one hundred 254 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: or one hundred and fifty candidates who've really never been 255 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: candidates before, you've got to give them things to talk about. 256 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: They give them a huge advantage. The Republicans had to 257 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: have talking points. We wanted our candidates mutually reinforcing each other. 258 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: So if you were out of driving and you happen 259 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: to drive through Boise, Idaho, and you heard one of 260 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: our candidates on local drivetime radio, we wanted their message 261 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: to reinforce what you're going to hear later on that 262 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: day if you drove through Spokane, Washington. Plus, we thought 263 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: that the points we had come up with in the 264 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: contract were just more powerful than people would find randomly 265 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: on their own. So this was a very serious and 266 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: very concerted effort. So we wanted our candidates to be 267 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: able to go on drivetime radio back home and have 268 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: the interviewers say, so, how do you feel about welfare reform? Oh, 269 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: I'm really for a welfare reform. I believe in work. 270 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: How do you feel about a balance budget? I'm committed 271 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: to a balance budget. When you did three or four 272 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: or five of those in a row, that person driving 273 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: to work listening to you is going well, I agree 274 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: with that one, and I agree with that one, and 275 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: I agree with that one, and all of a sudden, 276 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: the dunche You know, this candidate's pretty good. And that 277 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: was a big part of our underlying effort to put 278 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: all of this together. When we come back, we'll revisit 279 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: election night in November nineteen ninety four, when the Republicans 280 00:16:50,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: took the majority. This is week three of my Profile 281 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: Plan journey. Debbie and I are discussing the concepts both 282 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: of early weight loss but also of non scale victories, 283 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: which I think is an important part of how Profile 284 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: approaches all of this and we're very fortunate because we 285 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: have a chance to chat with our profile counselor. Abbey. 286 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: Let me just start and say, Abbey, how are you today? Hi? 287 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: Meet Debby. I'm very well. Thank you. This week we're 288 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: talking about early weight loss and non scale victories. Tell 289 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: me how are you both doing well? I've lost seven pounds. 290 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: I did that well going through several weeks of traveling, 291 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: including one week to five different cities. Traveling, it can 292 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: be really challenging to stick to your plan. I'm excited 293 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 1: to say I steps on the scale today and I've 294 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: lost seventeen point nine pounds. I'm thrilled. I feel much better. 295 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: You've both seen weight loss, which is great. Tell me 296 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: more about some me or more non scale victories. It's 297 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: a major victory for me not to have gained seven pounds. 298 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: I also think that it's helped me be much more 299 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: aware of both of what I eat, but also more 300 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: aware of getting sleep and pacing myself. For me, it's 301 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm shopping in my closet again. So 302 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: I think the fun part is going back and being 303 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: able to fit into some clothes that you know a 304 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: month ago were impossible. 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That's profileplan dot com slash n ewt now. 314 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 1: Election night was amazing because I knew him in local 315 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: talk radio. My good friend Sean Hannity agreed to be 316 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: the hosts for the election night in Georgia. The results 317 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: started to come in. We'd already been told on September 318 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: seventeenth that we were going to pick up fifty three 319 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: seats by Joe Gaylord, who really knew the country so well. 320 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: It was astonishing the fact that we had really followed 321 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: and tracked and had a pretty good sense of what 322 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: was going to happen. And on election night is the 323 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: return started to come in. As we started to pick 324 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: up seats that nobody thought we could win. Began to realize, 325 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: you know, this is going to come together. It was remarkable. 326 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: My two daughters, Jackie Cushman and Kathy Lobbers, were there. 327 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: They knew they were part of history. Many of our 328 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: friends who'd been major supporters Gay Gains for example, who 329 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: had run go Pack and helped us grow the Modern Party, Boucalloway, 330 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: who had run go Pack before Gay, they were all there. 331 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: All of my local supporters from Cobb County and from 332 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: around Georgia were there, people like Steve Hanser and Mel 333 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: Steely who I taught with at West Georgia College. It 334 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: was a remarkable, remarkable evening. I think that we were 335 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: a little overwhelmed as the evening went on, just by 336 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: people calling Paul over the country, talking with us and 337 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: beginning to recognize that we actually were going to have 338 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: to organize the House and actually going to have to 339 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: do things. We had not been in a majority for 340 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: forty years. If you were under fifty eight years of age, 341 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: you'd never voted in an election that had a Republican 342 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 1: House majority. And if you were a hardcore solid Republican supporter, 343 00:20:52,000 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: you were just giddy. We're waiting. We're waiting. Let me 344 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: say first of all that Haley Barber, who will go 345 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: down in history I think is one of the great 346 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: National chairman of all time, didn't tell you the whole story. 347 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: This ad was in TV Guide because Haley Barber and 348 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee paid I think it was two 349 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand dollars to put this in there. 350 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: And when he said, if the House Republicans are willing 351 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: to commit to real change, I'll pay for the ad, 352 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: an awful lot of folks thought he had lost his mind. 353 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: Most of them have since told him. I was glad 354 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: they were that they thought it up, but we would 355 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: not be here as a majority without Hanley Barber and 356 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee. Peter Jenny Good Evening. We begin 357 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: tonight with the most straightforward reaction we've heard all day 358 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: for the results of yesterday's mid term election. The Democratic Chairman, 359 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: David Wilhelm said, simply, we got our butts kicked, and 360 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: you can see how badly by this. In every race 361 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: for the Senate, the House, and for governor yesterday, not 362 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: one incumbent Republican lost. Republicans are now the majority party, 363 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: both in the Congress and in the governor's mansions across 364 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: the nation. The only powerbase the Democrats still have is 365 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: the one that was not at stake yesterday, the presidency itself. 366 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: After forty years of democratic control of the House, Americans 367 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: grew wary of candidates saying one thing and doing another. 368 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to lead a team of conservatives 369 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: hungry for the opportunity to take over the party and 370 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: the House and try a new way of governing. We 371 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: embarked on a listening to her to learn what was 372 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,959 Speaker 1: most important in people's lives, and from that creating an 373 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: agenda worth voting for. We promised Americans that if they 374 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: voted Republican, we would fight for ten important planks, each 375 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: representing bills we would bring to the floor in the 376 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: first one hundred days of office. We created the Contract 377 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: with America. Because a campaign promises one thing, contract is 378 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: something very different. We even added a scorecard on the 379 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: planks inside TV gut and if we didn't bring these 380 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: bills to the floor in the first hundred days, the 381 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: American people could kick us up. The importance of the 382 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: first hundred days was, first of all, that it was 383 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: a model that President Franklin Dona Rosa had used to 384 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: maximize getting things through back in nineteen thirty three. Second, 385 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: we wanted a deadline to force ourselves to work. Ironically, 386 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: the person who's written best about this is Senate Minority 387 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: Leader Chuck Schumer, who wrote a book back in two 388 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: thousand and seven. It was Schumer's view that the real 389 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: purpose of the Contract with America was to radicalize the 390 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: House Republican Party, that it was a management document, and 391 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: it was exactly right. I knew that it would be 392 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: powerful for us in terms of the election, but more importantly, 393 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: I didn't want to create a majority and have them 394 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: promptly run over to Georgetown, start going to lobbyist cocktail 395 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: parties and become normal. I wanted them to consciously be different, 396 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: to be reform oriented, to be militant. And that lasted 397 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: about three years. We couldn't sustain it forever, but for 398 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: about three years we were very, very different, and very 399 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: much in the tradition of Henry Clay and the Warhawks 400 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: back in eighteen ten, who said, in the first hundred days, 401 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: we're going to vote in every one of these. Now, 402 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: I want to make a point about this. I think 403 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: it's very important to understand that we did this very carefully. 404 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 1: We promised we could do, we didn't promise what we 405 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: couldn't do. We didn't promise we'd pass everything because we 406 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: knew we didn't have the votes. But as the speaker, 407 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: I could schedule everything. So we said we will have 408 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: a vote on everything in the first hundred days, and 409 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: we did. And on the House side, we passed everything 410 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: except the term limits, which did not get a constitutional majority, 411 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: but we passed a constitutional amendment for balanced budget. We 412 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: passed every major bill. Now, imagine when we sat down 413 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: after election and we took stock, we realized that the 414 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: only Republican who had served in a Republican House majority 415 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: was Congressman Bill Emerson of Missouri, who was a page 416 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. There was not a single congressman 417 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: on the Republican side who had served in the Republican majority. 418 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: There were several Democrats who had switched and become Republican, 419 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: they'd served in Democrat majorities. But it was remarkable. So 420 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: we have an entire team here. And this is where 421 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: Bob Walker was so important, because Walker is a great 422 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: parliamentary leader. Understands the rules of the House, and he 423 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: literally spent December training our members. I mean, we didn't 424 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: have people who are used to being in the chair. 425 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: So how do you preside over the house? How do 426 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: you use the gavel? What are the procedures you're following. 427 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: So we went through all of that, and on the 428 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: opening day we probably went a little bit overboard, I'll 429 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: be honest. We met to like two or three in 430 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: the morning. We did so much. I think it we'd 431 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: been a little wiser, we might have spread that out 432 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: over three days. We were so excited, we felt like 433 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: we were making history. So with partnership but with purpose, 434 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: I passed this great gavel of our government, with resignation, 435 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: but with resolve. I hereby end forty years of democratic 436 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: rule of this House. I now have the high honor 437 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: and distinct privilege to present to the House of Representatives 438 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: our new Speaker, the gentleman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich. The 439 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: second day we were there, we put the Thomas System 440 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: online at the Library of Congress, so any American anywhere 441 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: in the country, at no cost, with no lobby, could 442 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: go online and for example and see bills in one 443 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: of my proudest moments was when Bill Archer, the chairman 444 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: of Weighs and Means, got up and announced that he 445 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: had introduced the tax cut and that they read the 446 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: UURL for you to go and look up the tax 447 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: cut on the new Congressional Internet. And I was so 448 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: proud of that breakthrough because it meant that every American 449 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: had a chance to learn about their Congress on their 450 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: terms without having to pay anybody. So we really worked 451 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: at it. We went first of all in terms of 452 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: just sheer power and the change of how the system worked. 453 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: We went for forty years with no Republican being Speaker 454 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: of the House, no Republican majority. In ninety four, we 455 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: took control. We kept it for twelve years until two 456 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: thousand and six. Then in two thousand and ten, with 457 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: John Bayner's really remarkable leadership, we took it back again 458 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: and we kept it until last year. So suddenly you 459 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: went from a period where they had controlled the House 460 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: for forty years to a period where for twenty out 461 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: of the last twenty four years we have controlled the House. 462 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: Now that's a real shift in power. It's a real 463 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: shift in whose moving ideas, whose moving legislation, what's happening. 464 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: Some of it was remarkably important. I'll just give you 465 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: one example. Welfare reform, which was far and away the 466 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: most important single domestic bill we passed changed the whole 467 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: face of welfare. Before our Welfare reform bill, every welfare 468 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: office in the country trained people on how to be depends, 469 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: how to maximize getting money from the government, how to 470 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: avoid work. After we passed welfare reform, they became employment officers. 471 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,959 Speaker 1: They started training people, they started helping people find jobs. 472 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: The miraculous result was that in the first couple of years, 473 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: we had the largest decline in the number of children 474 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: in poverty in American history because their parents went to work. 475 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: God's salaries began to rise. Life got better. And so 476 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: I look at things like that and I think, you know, 477 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: the Contract did make a big difference. It was a 478 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: remarkable moment. I'm very proud to have been part of it. 479 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: It is possible to have an idea oriented campaign to 480 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: offer big reforms, to rally the American people and to 481 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: move the country in the right direction, and remembering the 482 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: twenty fifth Anniversity of Contract, I think is really an 483 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: important thing to do. Next, we'll talk about the legacy 484 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: of the contract and why it's still important today. This 485 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: is a night to celebrate. So I just want to 486 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: share one, just one story with you, because I thought 487 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: it was so amazing. We were on the House floor 488 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: last night. We were down to the last vote. We 489 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: had defeated the Democrats substitute, and we had defeated the 490 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: Democrat's motion to recommit. And I never ever before fully 491 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: understand how much they loved bureaucrats and hate tax cuts. 492 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: There we were on the House floor, we were about 493 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: to vote. I was about to get my voting card out. 494 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: I was excited. It was the final big vote of 495 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: the contract, and suddenly a Democrat jumped up. Now, we 496 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: had been debating all day and every Democrat had said, 497 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: this is a huge tax cut. We can't afford it. 498 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: This is one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars tax cut. 499 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: We can't afford it. This takes money away from bureaucrats 500 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: and gives it to children. We can't afford it. This 501 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: takes more money away from bureaucrats and gives us entrepreneurs. 502 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: It takes even more money away from bureaucrats and gives 503 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: it to senior citizens. This is a horrible tax cut, 504 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: and at the last second one of the Democrats jumped 505 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: up and said, I have a point of order. This 506 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: is a tax increase. Now I thought it was one 507 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: of the weirdest moments in the history of the House. 508 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: And then I realized that was a Democrat from northern 509 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: Virginia who represented bureaucrats and resented the tax cuts, and 510 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: he just couldn't get it. So I just want all 511 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: of you to know, this was the beginning. You made 512 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: it possible. With your help, we passed it, and with 513 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: your help we're coming back in May to even begger 514 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: and even better and even more exciting. It's your thank you. 515 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: The Republican Revolution of nineteen ninety four really happened, I 516 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: think for three very different reasons. First, there had been 517 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: a group of younger activist Republicans who had been working 518 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: now for sixteen years to create a majority, and they 519 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: knew they had to go all out in order to 520 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: become a major. Second, we were still standing on Ronald 521 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: Reagan's shoulders, and we knew, or at least we believed, 522 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: that the core of Reaganism welfare reform, the work ethic, 523 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: lower taxes, more economic growth, those kind of ideas we 524 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: believe deeply still appealed to a massive majority of Americans. 525 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: And third, after forty years in power as a monopoly, 526 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: the Democrats had finally just gotten tired, and so they 527 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: were sort of in a position to being knocked out 528 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: of power. We had a bunch of hungry, aggressive, eager 529 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: people really wanting to get into power, and Ronald Reagan 530 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: had given us a set of ideas powerful enough and 531 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: clear enough to in fact enable us to win a majority. 532 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: I think the Contract remains important because first, it's proof 533 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: that you can change history. It's proof that something can 534 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: happen that hadn't happened in forty years. Second, it's proof 535 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: that you can be for big, positive ideas and actually 536 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 1: run an idea oriented campaign and have the country respond 537 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: by electing you. And third, it's important because it's a 538 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: reminder that it takes a team to run a country 539 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: the size of America, and that when the team came together, 540 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: the American people responded. You can learn more about the 541 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four Republican Revolution and The Contract with America 542 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: tonight on Fox News at eight pm Eastern, when the 543 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 1: documentary premiers, and on our show page at Newtsworld dot com. 544 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: Newtsworld is produced by Westwood One. Our executive producer is 545 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: Debbie Myers and our producer is Garnsey Slope. Our editor 546 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: is Robert Borowski, and our researcher is Rachel Peterson. Our 547 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 1: guest bucker is Grace Stevens. The artwork for the show 548 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 1: was created by Steve Pendley. The music was composed by 549 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: Joey Salvia. Special thanks to the team at Ginwich three 550 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: sixty and Westward Ones, John Wardock and Robert Mathers. Please 551 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 1: email me with your comments at Newt at newtsworld dot com. 552 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: If you've been enjoying Newtsworld, I hope you'll go to 553 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 1: Apple podcast and both rate us with five stars and 554 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,879 Speaker 1: give us a review so others can learn what it's 555 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: all about. On the next episode of Newtsworld. One of 556 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: my favorite podcasts because it's about one of my favorite topics, 557 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: the movies. I love the movies, and I hope when 558 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 1: I share with you why I love the movies, and 559 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,400 Speaker 1: I talk about some of the great films that have 560 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 1: moved me, that you'll decide you love the movies too. 561 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: So I urge you to listen to the next episode 562 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: on NEWT and the Movies I'm Newt Gingrich. This is 563 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 1: news World, the Westwood one podcast network.