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...Newt Gingrich included a constitutional amendment to limit politicians to 12 years in both the House and the Senate in his 1994 Contract with America. But it was one plank of the contract that even Gingrich couldn't push through the House: it failed two months into Gingrich's speakership 227 to 204. A constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority (at that time 290 votes were needed) plus a two-thirds majority in the Senate and it must be ratified by two-thirds of the states - making any changes to the current system unlikely in the near future...
...politics of fear and division and hate on each other - we are at a point right now where it doesn't make a damn whether you're a Democrat or a Republican if you've forgotten you're an American," he said. (Read a commentary on bipartisanship by Newt Gingrich...
...consecutive balanced budgets (reducing the public debt by $450 billion) since the 1920s. The public fights were often intense, but the willingness to keep talking and working together led to a number of historic achievements that both Clinton and the congressional Republicans could claim credit for. (See pictures of Gingrich's career...
...this increasingly antidebt and anti-Big Government environment, the American people are turning against a Big Government health solution. A Rasmussen survey showed that 61% of Americans prefer scrapping the current, 4,500-page bill and starting over. (See a video interview with Newt Gingrich...
Former House Speaker Gingrich is the founder of the Center for Health Transformation...