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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Madison+Cawthorn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn</a> (R-NC) has revealed his “New Contract with America” that’s designed to destroy Social Security, one of the most successful and life-saving programs in U.S. history, to “incentivize” the elderly to return to work.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s just one aspect of what Cawthorn describes as a 10-point plan that reads like a far right-wing dream from capitalist kingpins to return America to the days of child labor, seven-day work weeks, and no retirement for senior citizens. But it does call for the federal government to “promote and celebrate the American manufacturing and agriculture industry by incentivizing domestic production,” despite the US economy being so on fire the Federal Reserve is poised to dramatically raise interest rates to cool off spending and so-called “inflation.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The youngest member of Congress, currently facing a legal battle that could ban him from keeping his seat over his role in the January 6 insurrection, explained to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/madison-cawthorn-unveils-republican-platform" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Fox News</a> his “new Contract With America is really a “retort” to the Green New Deal.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I think the Green New Deal is much less of a climate plan and much more of a <b>Communist manifesto.”</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cawthorn does not reveal who actually wrote the plan,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which is in the form of a House resolution (embedded below) – so it has zero chance of passing as long as Democrats hold the chamber.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It includes “slashing government spending by a third by 2031; enacting a balanced budget amendment; and abolishing the income tax and finding a replacement flat tax or consumption tax by 2026</b>,” Fox News adds.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The contract also calls for abolishing the Department of Education, making English the official language of the United States, banning federal funding for critical race theory teachings, and enacting school choice on the federal level so federal dollars follow the students to their school of choice, including private religious schools</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There’s also a companion video that looks more like a video game than a rational political agenda.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid] ncwa</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span dir="auto">=</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span dir="auto">at least they recycle grift</span></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/newt-gingrich-trump/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/newt-gingrich-trump/</a></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In </span> 1994, when President Bill Clinton was serving his first term, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich unveiled his Contract With America — a hard-right Republican legislative agenda that Gingrich's critics slammed as the Contract <em>On</em> America. Republicans recaptured the House in the 1994 midterms, and Gingrich became House speaker in January 1995.<b> Now, in the Biden era, Gingrich is a major ally of former President Donald Trump — and according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/25/trump-is-starting-to-put-together-his-own-contract-with-america-and-hes-teaming-up-with-newt-490829" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Politico reporter Meridith McGraw</a>, Gingrich and Trump are joining forces for a new version of the Contract With America for the 2022 midterms. But the 2022 version, McGraw reports, will have a much more Trumpian focus.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"With an eye toward winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, former President Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda outlining a MAGA doctrine for the party," McGraw reports. "His template is the 1994 'Contract With America,' a legislative agenda released ahead of the midterm elections in the middle of President Bill Clinton's first term. And as a cherry on top, he's teaming up with its main architect — Gingrich — to do it."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McGraw adds that according to a Politico source, Trump recently met with Gingrich, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida to "begin crafting the document." twt]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The group is still just beginning to hammer out the details of what a Trumpified Contract might look like," McGraw explains. "But it is likely to take an 'America first' policy approach on everything from trade to immigration. The source described it as 'a policy priority for 2022 and beyond.' Its construction has been teased and talked about for weeks, but the fact that the principals are beginning to put it together underscores Trump's continued interest in trying to shape the Republican Party."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 77-year-old Gingrich, however, told Politico that he doesn't expect the 2022 plan to be finalized "anytime soon</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." When Politico asked him to outline some policy priorities that it may include, the former House speaker responded,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "It should be positive. School choice, teaching American history for real,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> abolishing the '1619 Project,' eliminating critical race theory and what the Texas legislature is doing. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We should say, 'Bring it on.'"</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like Barack Obama, Clinton went down in history as a president who was decisively reelected but suffered a major setback at the midterms. 1996 was a great year for Clinton, who was reelected with 379 electoral votes compared to only 159 for Republican nominee Bob Dole. But Democrats suffered a major pounding in the 1994 midterms.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"The original 'Contract with America' was credited with helping Republicans gain their first majority in four decades after the party picked up 52 seats in 1994 in the House and nine seats in the Senate," McGraw recalls. "Republicans have used it as a template in elections since."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Politico reporter continues, "In 2010, the so-called Republican 'Young Guns,' led by Reps. Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, introduced a much longer version of Gingrich's contract with a 224-page publication outlining policy goals ahead of the midterm elections</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And Graham, who was one of the Contract's signatories when he first ran for a House seat in 1994, has frequently advocated for Republicans to adopt Contract-style declarations to unify the party during election years."</span></font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1/12</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-wily-newt-pulled-the-contract-with-america-scam-200577/">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-wily-newt-pulled-the-contract-with-america-scam-200577/</a></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newton Leroy Gingrich is one wily mothertrucker. He’s calling his presidential platform this year a “<a href="http://www.newt.org/21st-century-contract-america" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">21st Century Contract With America</a>.” It’s a wingnutpalooza, naturally, endorsing such “timeless American values” as seeking to “establish English as the official language of government,” and reducing the corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent and the capital gains rate to zero; and featuring such “Day One Executive Orders” as the cancellation of all “immigration-related lawsuits against states” and a renewal of “President Ronald Reagan’s policy … to stop taxpayer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign country.” (Critics call that the “<a href="http://www.genderhealth.org/the_issues/us_foreign_policy/global_gag_rule/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">global gag rule</a>,” because it forbids any country receiving American aid from letting doctors even <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">talk</em> about family planning.) </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The title, of course, refers to the Contract With America, which 367 Republican congressional candidates signed on the Capitol steps in September of 1994. When, two months later, the GOP took over Congress for the first time since 1952, making its architect, Newt Gingtrich, the Speaker of the House, all the world proclaimed that the electorate had just delivered a historic mandate for conservatism.</font></p><p data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-9326027_26="11868" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-9326027_26="100" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9326027_26="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Well, not really. The <a href="http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Contract With America</a> was a hustle from start to finish. It never really was about conservatism at all – practically the opposite. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The fact that Newt can redeploy it to promote his right-of-Attila-the-Hun harpyish shrieking for 2012 just shows how effective the hustle – and the hustler – turned out to be.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here’s what happened: Ross Perot. Specifically, the weirdo billionaire Texas populist won nearly nineteen percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election – the most for a third-party candidate in 80 years – with an odd platform of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism,  Immediately and instinctively, both parties began bidding for his constituency. The Democrats, however, had to punt: President Clinton had <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Free-Trade-Washington-Subversion/dp/0520231783/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327525693&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">made passing the North American Free Trade agreement his obsession</a> in 1993, but <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">opposing</em> it was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Save-Your-Job-Our-Country/dp/1562827111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327525728&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Perot’s obsession</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In stepped the Republicans. The party’s Orwellian-in-Chief, messaging guru Frank Luntz, spoke at a Republican retreat a month after Clinton’s inauguration and described the Perot vote as “the GOP’s future.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newt Gingrich, convinced, implored every Republican candidate and official to read Lunt’z presentation. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other bigwigs demurred: Bob Dole, for instance, said Perot was nothing but a “walking sound bite,” and pointed out, “There are more new taxes in his program than in Clinton’s program.” Aye, there was the rub: </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Perot was no conservative. </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His quirky mix of policy prescriptions included huge hikes on gas and tobacco taxes and new taxes on social security and employee health insurance benefits; he was obsessed with the federal deficit, and dead serious about eliminating it. He was for less American involvement abroad, and abhorred the politicization of the kind of “social issues” around which the Republicans had organized their 1992 convention. (</span><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25847#axzz1kUq3vDhG" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Their platform</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> opened with a nearly-6,000-word section, 14 percent of the document, on “traditional family values,” and featured </span><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/patrickbuchanan1992rnc.htm" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Pat Buchanan’s infamous speech</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> declaring,”There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war”)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perot, however, was pro-choice. Still, he was also a tribune of “reform” – his vehicle, remember, was called the Reform Party. That meant, in Perot’s terms, strict ethics rules for Congress and government officials; campaign finance and lobbying reforms, especially for former officeholders; cutbacks on executive and congressional staff; and – the jug-eared billionaire’s unique calling card – an insistence on term limits for politicians</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And this, to cynical Republicans like Gingrich who had been indifferent if not hostile to any such notions before, was something they could work with.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An extraordinary but obscure political science monograph by Ronald Rapoport and Walter Stone, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LpBe1psZNk0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=three%27s+a+crowd+perot&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rm8gT-z6OOrh0QHBzIUG&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=three%27s%20a%20crowd%20per" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Three’s a Crowd: The Dynamics of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence</a></em>, reconstructed through interviews, surveys, and <b>documents how Gingrich devised a document micro-tailored to turn at least 70 percent of Perot voters, however fleetingly, into Republicans in time for November of 1994</b>. “Republicans knew,” Stone and Rapoport write, “that the traditional Republican congressional campaign” – which is to say, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">conservatism</em> – “would be insufficient to get this support.” This realization was the genesis of the Contract for America.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They would not call theirs a “platform”; extensive focus-grouping with Perotistas suggested they preferred something more like the “Checklist For All Candidates” that Perot included as an appendix to his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-We-Stand-Take-Country/dp/1562828525/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327525891&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">United We Stand</a>, </em>which Perot wanted candidates to sign as a binding contract.<em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> </em>They would keep the word “Republican” out of it; Perot voters were all about their disgust with the two existing parties. In terms of content, their “contract” would pass over in silence the Perovian preferences no Republican could get behind (there was nothing, for example, on NAFTA or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, another Perot bugaboo, nor on campaign finance reform). </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Traditional Republican issues that did well with Perot supporters even if they weren’t really up the ally of Perot himself (tort reform; an anti-crime package, “stronger child-pornography laws”) were present but deemphasized. The headline-producing stuff was straight Perot: “first day” pledges to audit and restructure the House and Senate, to “require all laws that apply to the rest of the country to apply equally to Congress,” to press for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and a “first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators.” (Write the political scientists: “The term <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">citizen legislators </em>was selected based on focus groups with Perot supporters.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There was one extremely Republican, and not very Perovian, provision: a call for tax increases to require a three-fifths vote of congress. (Maybe they’d negotiated that one in secret with Perot himself: Gingrich and allies had been meeting with him since the spring of 1993, in defiance of the old-line House Republican leadership that Gingrich was soon to unseat. Later, Perot endorsed the Republican slate.) Finally, and most important: “Gone was the 1992 Republican platform emphasis on family values …. This decision was contentious, but Gingrich fought hard for it. He declared categorically, ‘There will be no social issues’ – a decision made with Perot voters explicitly in mind.” The final product comprised 44 percent “reform” issues, almost identical to the 41 percent in Perot </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">United We Stand </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">checklist (they had made up only </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">14 percent</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the 1992 Republican platform). </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Then, Contract in hand, the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee got to work identifying Perot voters in districts where he had done well in 1992, blitzing them with direct mail, phone calls, and door-knocking.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It worked. As Stone and Rapoport empirically demonstrate, fans of the guy who told voters “You’re the boss and I’m Ross” lined up to vote Republican. Gingrich became Speaker of the House. Promptly, Part B of the plan, which Stone and Rapoport don’t talk about, went into effect: in 1995, retroactively pronouncing the success of the what they now called the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Republican </em>Contract With America as a straight-up electoral endorsement of conservatism – “<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-contract-with-america-implementing-new-ideas-in-the-us" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">the third leg of the conservative revolution in post-World War II America</a>” that began with Barry Goldwater and the Heritage Foundation, which had been in on the planning all along. <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-contract-with-america-implementing-new-ideas-in-the-us" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">In 1995, Heritage staffer Jeffrey Gaynor claimed</a> that “an extensive philosophical groundwork formed the intellectual foundation with of the Contract With America when it formally appeared in the fall of 1994.” Which is bullshit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, the Christian Coalition claimed the Contract for America as a mandate for themselves. Ralph Reed, flanked Gingrich and other Congressmen who had helmed the Contract process, proclaimed: “<a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-05-18/news/1995138040_1_christian-coalition-conservative-christian-plank" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">We have finally gained what we have always sought</a>:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a place at the table, a sense of legitimacy and a voice in the conversation we call democracy.” Which was not bullshit. The Contract </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">did </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">earn the Christian right a place at the table, as they cynically knew it would – that was why, as Stone and Rapoport explain, “the Christian Coalition, recognizing the importance of the Perot constituency and knowing that a Republican House would be more supportive of its aims, praised an agenda that left out many of its most important issues.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gingrich and Co. were able to get away with it because the plain facts of what the Contract actually was (a strategic <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">erasure </em>of Republican conservatism) almost entirely escaped the political press </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– at the time, and ever since. A </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NOECAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=%22self-aggrandizing,+wacky+splendor%22&source=bl&ots=WEvvcdTRSk&sig=NIJvhD542gDV4f8d_jX8M-4887c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=R3IgT9a9N4Lb0QHBvqgG&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22self-aggrandizing%2C%20w" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">1996 <em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">New York </em>magazine article by Jacob Weisberg</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, for instance, about how “Ross Perot is back, in all his self-aggrandizing, wacky splendor,” observed as evidence of said wackiness, “One minute Perot is making an important point about the unwillingness of the major parties to deal with the Social Security time bomb. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The next he is off on a jag about how the Contract with America was actually his idea.” (Imagine!) A 2004 history of conservatism stated baldly that the Contract “</span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3Rf_3HYgSvIC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=%22epitomized+antigovernment+conservatism%22&source=bl&ots=J-1D3MdMdD&sig=EcLamNxi-cnusTRtgiWM2infXF4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GHMgT-eqKePV0QGhmtUG&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22epitomized%20antigovernm" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">epitomized antigovernment conservatism</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” The narrative was set: the Contract, and its consequence – the new Republican congressional majority – proved America was indisputably (to take the title of that 2004 history) a “</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Right-Nation-Conservative-Power-America/dp/B000F71124/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327526614&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">right nation</a><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">.” </em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This supposed truism underwrites the defensive rhetoric of, say, Barack Obama, who felt compelled to say in his </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2012" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">State of the Union</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> this week, quoting Abraham Lincoln, that “government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newt tells us his humungous revision of his 1994 masterpiece (<a href="http://www.newt.org/contract/legislative-proposals" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Part 1: Legislative Proposals</a> is 8,238 words so far, compared to 849 words for the entire original) is “a work in progress which will be developed over the next year and finally unveiled in a completed form” on the eighteenth anniversary of the first Contract, on September 27, 2012. But you can sign it now nonetheless, sight unseen – your own preemptive Pledge of Allegiance to the Newt. That wily, wily mothertrucker.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Rick Perlstein is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Before-Storm-Goldwater-Unmaking-Consensus/dp/1568584121/ref=tmm_pap_title_0/188-5741354-6558707" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Before-Storm-Goldwater-Unmaking-Consensus/dp/1568584121/ref=tmm_pap_title_0/188-5741354-6558707" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.<i> </i></a></span>He writes a weekly column for RollingStone.com.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/how-deregulation-led-to-the-opioid-epidemic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/how-deregulation-led-to-the-opioid-epidemic</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The opioid abuse epidemic is one of the worst public-health crises in American history. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 1999 and 2017, almost <b>400,000 people died in the U.S</b>. from an overdose of either prescription or illicit opioids. In 2017 alone, opioids, more than one-third involving prescriptions, killed more than 47,000 individuals. And today, on average 130 people die each day from opioid overdoses.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article originally appeared on The American Prospect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The root cause of most cases of opioid addiction, particularly prescription-initiated addiction, is pain, a devastating but sometimes overlooked symptom. As a recent American Industrial Hygiene Association paper argues, “<b>the opioid crisis should be seen primarily as a pain crisis, much of which is related to work.”</b> Addressing that crisis precipitated another: treatment regimes that relied heavily on opioids. Today there’s little awareness that almost<b> two decades ago, conservative members of Congress, in a burst of anti-regulatory zeal, championed the fight to eliminate the very ergonomics standard that was designed to reduce the high incidence of a number of common workplace injuries.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The tale of that misguided effort begins with the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, f</b>ollowing decades of unregulated, preventable workplace deaths, injuries, and illnesses. Its goal was to “assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women” and included “authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The act incorporated existing industry safety standards and adopted new ones to cover an array of workplace hazards, such as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). These disorders included a wide range of conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome, back pain, and tendonitis that are related to repetitive stress, or sustained or sudden exertions resulting from lifting, pushing, and pulling; carrying many or irregularly shaped objects; maintaining awkward or unnatural positions; or handling vibrating machinery and tools.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By the 1980s, labor health and safety activists recognized that alarming rates of disabling WMSDs were occurring in a wide variety of workplaces, including auto manufacturers, garment factories, office environments, and meatpacking and poultry plants. New modes of assembly line production exacerbated these long-standing problems. The need to implement an ergonomics standard, one that would require employers to systematically address the hazards that give rise to musculoskeletal injuries suffered by their workers, became even more urgent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There were several false starts for the controversial provisions,<b> but OSHA began working in earnest on the standard in 1993. However, the resulting proposals soon ran into trouble on Capitol Hill. The Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994, and Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” heralded the new Republican majority’s deregulatory push. Bemoaning the costs that an ergonomics standard would entail for the private sector, industry lobbyists derided OSHA’s ergonomic proposal as the poster child for government overregulation</b>. The agency estimated that the <b>new rule would require $4.5 billion in annual compliance costs, but would generate $9.1 billion in benefits every year in the first ten years,</b> and prevent hundreds of thousands of musculoskeletal disorders each year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Gingrich’s acolytes fought the development of the standard tooth and nail, despite a 1997 General Accounting Office report that found that “billions of dollars are spent by private sector employers on workers’ compensation claims</b> associated with WMSDs,” and that “employers can reduce these costs and injuries and thereby improve employee health and morale, as well as productivity and product quality” by implementing effective ergonomics programs in their workplaces.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After a decade of research and heated political debate,<b> OSHA finally prevailed. On November 14, 2000, during the final weeks of the Clinton administration</b>, the agency issued its ergonomics regulation. It applied to more than six million worksites covering 102 million workers and required all general-industry employers (excluding the agriculture, maritime, and construction sectors) to establish an ergonomics program if triggered by reports of a worker’s WMSD or persistent evidence of WMSDs in the workplace.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The standard went into effect days before <b>George W. Bush was inaugurated. But a few months later, Congress used the Congressional Review Act of 1996 to obliterate the regulation, the first and only time the act had been used to rescind an agency regulation</b> (until President Trump began to make frequent use of it). </span>Usually, if a new administration dislikes a regulation and wants it revised or revoked, it needs to engage in rulemaking all over again and must justify the desired changes. The ergonomics standard escaped this process. In his first legislative act as president, Bush signed the rescission resolution on March 20, 2001, taking the standard off the books and prohibiting OSHA from ever issuing a substantially similar one. A regulation designed to protect workers from debilitating workplace injuries—that frequently required painkilling treatment regimes—had been completely destroyed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Bush administration paid lip service to the value of ergonomics programs</b>. Administration officials noted that employers who ignored obvious problems with WMSDs might be cited under OSHA’s “general duty” to provide a workplace reasonably free from recognized hazards. But, as a June 2004 memo to OSHA’s regional administrators made clear, any new guidelines for the prevention of WMSDs “are not new standards or regulations and do not create any new OSHA duties for employers” (emphasis in original). <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today, no federal ergonomics regulation exists. (Some states run their own OSHA programs, with federal financial and technical assistance and oversight. They are required to provide worker protections at least as vigorous as federal OSHA  regulations require. Of these states, only California has specific ergonomics regulations currently on the books.)</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the hazardous workplace conditions that give rise to musculoskeletal injuries, and the chronic pain that so often accompanies those injuries, haven’t gone away. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, musculoskeletal injuries are the most prevalent occupational injury in the United States today, totaling, in 2017, 32 percent of serious nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses. The CDC, meanwhile, continues to claim that “together, employers, workers, and other parties with an understanding of ergonomics can design effective programs to prevent and minimize WMSDs.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2017, there were<b> 344,970 cases of workplace musculoskeletal injuries involving days away from work.</b></span><b> How many of those cases represent workers who are being treated or are self-medicating with opioids today? How many are addicted? And how many of their injuries could have been prevented with an effectively enforced standard designed to reduce the hazards that cause WMSDs, like the short-lived 2001 rule?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, the CDC points out that the best ways to prevent opioid overdose deaths include improving prescribing through revamped clinical-practice guidelines and treatment and preventing opioid use disorder. But there’s little discussion even now about preventing the workplace injuries that cause the pain that contribute to opioid use and abuse. Federally enforceable worker-informed ergonomics programs continue to be urgently needed in every workplace where these hazards exist. If only Congress and President Bush had understood that 18 years ago.</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span dir="auto">=</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span dir="auto">dem in chains</span></font></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-6bca0d28-12f5-940d-181c-a195d6f14681"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">contract w. Am bal budget. mostly by Dick Armey, who staffed from Cato; gop sweep house and senate; armey studies house rules to manipulate; 2 shutdowns on debt limits fail;</span><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> BC triangulates, </span><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">takes on gop stated goals but avoid extreme measures works; 193</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span dir="auto"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contract with America</font></span></h1>

<div id="siteSub"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From <b>Wikipedia,</b> the free encyclopedia</font></div>

<div class="dablink"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not to be confused with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_from_America" title="Contract from America">Contract from America</a>, 2010.</font></div>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Contract with America</b> was a document released by the United States <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> during the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_election,_1994" title="U.S. House election, 1994" class="mw-redirect">1994 Congressional election</a> campaign.<b> Written by Larry Hunter, who was aided by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_Walker" title="Robert Smith Walker">Robert Walker</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armey" title="Richard Armey" class="mw-redirect">Richard Armey</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Paxon" title="Bill Paxon">Bill Paxon</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nussle" title="Jim Nussle">Jim Nussle</a>,</b> and in part using text from former President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1985 State of the Union Address">1985 State of the Union Address</a>, the Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> for the first time in 40 years. Many of the Contract's policy ideas originated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a>, a conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-gayner_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-gayner-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Contract with America was introduced six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election, the<b> first mid-term election of President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s Administration</b>, and was <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">signed by all but two of the Republican members of the House and all of the Party's non-incumbent Republican Congressional candidates.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Proponents say the Contract was revolutionary in its commitment to offering specific legislation for a vote, describing in detail the precise plan of the Congressional Representatives, and marked the first time since 1918 that a Congressional election had been run broadly on a national level.</span> Furthermore, its provisions represented the view of many conservative Republicans on the issues of shrinking the size of government, promoting lower taxes and greater entrepreneurial activity, and both<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_reform" title="Tort reform">tort reform</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_reform" title="Welfare reform">welfare reform</a>.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the Republicans gained a majority of seats in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_Congress" title="104th Congress" class="mw-redirect">104th Congress</a>, the Contract was seen as a triumph by Party leaders such as Minority Whip <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey">Dick Armey</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservatism" title="American Conservatism" class="mw-redirect">American conservative movement</a> in general.</font></p>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Content_of_the_Contract"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Content of the Contract</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Government_and_Operational_Reforms"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Government and Operational Reforms</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Major_Policy_Changes"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Major Policy Changes</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Implementation_of_the_Contract"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Implementation of the Contract</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_Fiscal_Responsibility_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">The Fiscal Responsibility Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_Taking_Back_Our_Streets_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">The Taking Back Our Streets Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_Personal_Responsibility_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">The Personal Responsibility Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_American_Dream_Restoration_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">The American Dream Restoration Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_National_Security_Restoration_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">The National Security Restoration Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_.22Common_Sense.22_Legal_Reform_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">The "Common Sense" Legal Reform Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_Job_Creation_and_Wage_Enhancement_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.7</span> <span class="toctext">The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#The_Citizen_Legislature_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.8</span> <span class="toctext">The Citizen Legislature Act</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Other_sections_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.9</span> <span class="toctext">Other sections of the Contract</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Non-implementation_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Non-implementation of the Contract</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Effects_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Effects of the Contract</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Notes"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#Sources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></font></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Content_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Content of the Contract</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Contract's actual text included a list of eight reforms the Republicans promised to enact, and ten bills they promised to bring to floor debate and votes, if they were made the majority following the election.<sup class="Template-Fact" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> During the crafting of the Contract, proposals were limited to "60% issues", <i>i.e.</i> legislation that polling showed garnered 60% support of the American people,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> intending for the Contract to avoid promises on controversial and divisive matters like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_prayer" title="School prayer">school prayer</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-gayner_1-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-gayner-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> biographer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Cannon" title="Lou Cannon">Lou Cannon</a> would characterize the Contract as having taken more than half of its text from Ronald Reagan's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1985 State of the Union Address">1985 State of the Union Address</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Government_and_Operational_Reforms"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Government and Operational Reforms</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to bring up for vote, eight major reforms:</font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">select a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_auditors" title="Big Four auditors" class="mw-redirect">major, independent auditing firm</a> to conduct a comprehensive<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit" title="Audit">audit</a> of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;</span></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">limit the terms of all committee chairs;</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ban the casting of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting" title="Proxy voting">proxy votes</a> in committee;</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>require committee meetings to be open to the public;</b></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;</b></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">guarantee an honest accounting of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process" title="United States budget process">Federal Budget</a> by implementing zero base-line budgeting.</font></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Major_Policy_Changes"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Major Policy Changes</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the first one hundred days of the 104th Congress, the Republicans pledged "to bring to the floor the following [ten] bills, each to be given a full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote, and each to be immediately available for public inspection." The text of the proposed bills was included in the Contract, which was released prior to the election. These bills were not governmental operational reforms, as the previous promises were; rather, they represented significant changes to policy. They mainly included a balanced budget requirement, tax cuts for small businesses, families and seniors, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits" title="Term limits" class="mw-redirect">term limits</a> for legislators, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_%28United_States%29" title="Social Security (United States)">social security</a> reform, tort reform, and welfare reform.</font></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Implementation_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Implementation of the Contract</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Contract had promised to bring to floor debate and votes 10 bills that would implement major reform of the federal government. When the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_United_States_Congress" title="104th United States Congress">104th Congress</a> assembled in January 1995, the Republican majority sought to implement the Contract.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In some cases (e.g. <i>The National Security Restoration Act</i> and <i>The Personal Responsibility Act</i>), the proposed bills were accomplished by a single act analogous to that which had been proposed in the Contract; in other cases (e.g. <i>The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act</i>), a proposed bill's provisions were split up across multiple acts. Most of the bills died in the Senate, except as noted below.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Fiscal_Responsibility_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Fiscal Responsibility Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_attempts_to_amend_the_U.S.Constitution" title="Unsuccessful attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution" class="mw-redirect">amendment</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a> that would require a balanced budget unless sanctioned by a three-fifths vote in both houses of Congress (H.J.Res.1, passed by the US House <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll051.xml">Roll Call: 300-132</a>, 1/26/95; rejected by the US Senate <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00098">Roll Call: 65-35</a>, 3/2/95, two-thirds required), and legislation (not an amendment) provide the president with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto" title="Line-item veto">line-item veto</a> (H.R.2, passed by the US House <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll095.xml">Roll Call: 294-134</a>, 2/6/95; conferenced with S. 4 and enacted with substantial changes 4/9/96 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:SN00004:@@@X">[1]</a>). The statute was ruled unconstitutional in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v.City_of_New_York" title="Clinton v. City of New York">Clinton v. City of New York</a>, 524 U.S. 417, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998).</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Taking_Back_Our_Streets_Act" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Taking Back Our Streets Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An anti-crime package including stronger <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_in_sentencing" title="Truth in sentencing">truth in sentencing</a>, "good faith" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule" title="Exclusionary rule">exclusionary rule</a> exemptions (H.R.666 Exclusionary Rule Reform Act, passed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll103.xml">US House Roll Call 289-142</a> 2/8/95), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty" title="Death penalty" class="mw-redirect">death penalty</a> provisions (H.R.729 Effective Death Penalty Act, passed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll109.xml">US House Roll Call 297-132</a> 2/8/95; similar provisions enacted under S. 735 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c104:4:./temp/%7Ec104ToSnGo::">[2]</a>, 4/24/96), funding prison construction (H.R.667 Violent Criminal Incarceration Act,</span> passed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll117.xml">US House Roll Call 265-156</a> 2/10/95, rc#117) and additional law enforcement (H.R.728 Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act, passed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll129.xml">US House Roll Call 238-192</a> 2/14/95).</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Personal_Responsibility_Act" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Personal Responsibility Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An act to discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by reforming and cutting cash welfare and related programs. This would be achieved by<b> prohibiting welfare to mothers under 18 years of age, denying increased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_to_Families_with_Dependent_Children" title="Aid to Families with Dependent Children">Aid to Families with Dependent Children</a> (AFDC) f</b>or additional children while on welfare, and enacting a two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. </span>H.R.4, <i>the Family Self-Sufficiency Act</i>, included provisions giving food vouchers to unwed mothers under 18 in lieu of cash AFDC benefits, denying cash AFDC benefits for additional children to people on AFDC, requiring recipients to participate in work programs after 2 years on AFDC, complete termination of AFDC payments after five years, and suspending driver and professional licenses of people who fail to pay child support. H.R.4, passed by the US House 234-199, 3/23/95, and passed by the US Senate 87-12, 9/19/95. The Act was vetoed by President Clinton, but the alternative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Reconciliation_Act" title="Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act" class="mw-redirect">Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act</a> which offered many of the same policies was enacted 22 August 1996.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_American_Dream_Restoration_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Dream Restoration Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An act to create a $500-per-child tax credit, begin repeal of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_tax_penalty" title="Marriage tax penalty" class="mw-redirect">marriage tax penalty</a>, and creation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Dream_Savings_Account&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Dream Savings Account (page does not exist)">American Dream Savings Accounts</a> to provide middle-class tax relief. H.R.1215, passed 246-188, 4/5/95.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_National_Security_Restoration_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Security Restoration Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An act to prevent U.S. troops from serving under United Nations command </span>unless the president determines it is necessary for the purposes of national security, to cut U.S. payments for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_UN_peacekeeping_missions" title="Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions" class="mw-redirect">UN peacekeeping operations</a>, and to help establish guidelines for the voluntary integration of former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> nations into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>. H.R.7, passed 241-181, 2/16/95.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_.22Common_Sense.22_Legal_Reform_Act" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The "Common Sense" Legal Reform Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An act to institute "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule" title="English rule">Loser pays</a>" laws (H.R.988, passed 232-193, 3/7/95), <b>limits on punitive damages </b>and <b>weakening of product-liability laws to prevent what the bill considered frivolous litigation (</b>H.R.956, passed 265-161, 3/10/95; passed Senate 61-37, 5/11/95, vetoed by President Clinton <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:h.r.00956:">[3]</a>). Another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_reform" title="Tort reform">tort reform</a> bill, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Securities_Litigation_Reform_Act" title="Private Securities Litigation Reform Act">Private Securities Litigation Reform Act</a> was enacted in 1995 when Congress overrode a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> by Clinton.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Job_Creation_and_Wage_Enhancement_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A package of measures to act as small-business incentives: capital-gains cuts and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_Flexibility_Act" title="Regulatory Flexibility Act">Regulatory Flexibility Act</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandate" title="Unfunded mandate">unfunded mandate</a> reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. Although this was listed as a single bill in the Contract, its provisions ultimately made it to the House Floor as four bills:</font></p>

<ul>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">H.R.5, requiring federal funding for state spending mandated by Congressional action and estimated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a> to cost more than $50m per year (for the years of 1996-2002<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup>), was passed 360-74, 2/1/95. This bill was conferenced with S. 1 and enacted, 3/22/95 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:SN00001:@@@X">[4]</a>.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R.450 <b>required a moratorium on the implementation of federal regulations </b>until June 30, 1995, and was passed 276-146, 2/24/95. Companion Senate bill S. 219 passed by voice vote, 5/17/95, but the two bills never emerged from conference <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:SN00219:@@@X">[5]</a>.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R.925 required federal compensation to be paid to property owners when federal government actions reduced the value of the property by 20% or more, and was passed 277-148, 3/3/95.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R.926, passed 415-14 on 3/1/95, required federal agencies to provide a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-benefit_analysis" title="Cost-benefit analysis" class="mw-redirect">cost-benefit analysis</a> on any regulation costing $50m or more annually, to be signed off on by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a>, and permitted small businesses to sue that agency if they believed the aforementioned analysis was performed inadequately or incorrectly.</font></li>

</ul>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Citizen_Legislature_Act"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Citizen Legislature Act</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_attempts_to_amend_the_U.S._Constitution" title="Unsuccessful attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution" class="mw-redirect">amendment to the Constitution</a> that would have imposed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">12-year term limits</span> on members of the US Congress (i.e. six terms for Representatives, two terms for Senators). H.J.Res.73<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/termlimd.txt">[6]</a> rejected by the U.S. House 227-204 (a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority, not a simple majority), 3/29/95; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll277.xml">RC #277</a>.</font></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_sections_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other sections of the Contract</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other sections of the Contract include a proposed Family Reinforcement Act (tax incentives for adoption, strengthening the powers of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and elderly dependent care tax credit) and the Senior Citizens Fairness Act (raise the Social Security earnings limit, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance).</font></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Non-implementation_of_the_Contract" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Non-implementation of the Contract</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A November 13, 2000, article by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Crane" title="Edward H. Crane" class="mw-redirect">Edward H. Crane</a>, president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>, stated, "...the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></font></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Effects_of_the_Contract"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Effects of the Contract</font></span></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some observers cite the Contract with America as having helped secure a decisive victory for the Republicans in the 1994 elections; others dispute this role, noting its late introduction into the campaign.<sup class="Template-Fact" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><b> Whatever the role of the Contract, Republicans were elected to a majority of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1953, and several parts of the Contract were enacted. Some elements did not pass in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a>, while others were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">vetoed</a> by, or substantially altered in negotiations with President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, who would later sarcastically refer to it as the "Contract <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_killing" title="Contract killing">on</a></i> America</b>.</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a blueprint for the policy of the new Congressional majority, Micklethwait & Wooldridge argue in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Nation" title="The Right Nation">The Right Nation</a></i> that the Contract placed the Congress firmly back in the driver's seat of domestic government policy for most of the 104th Congress, and placed the Clinton White House firmly on the defensive.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University_School_of_Law" title="George Mason University School of Law">George Mason University</a> law professor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E.Bernstein" title="David E. Bernstein" class="mw-redirect">David E. Bernstein</a> has argued that the Contract "show[ed]... that [Congress took] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism" title="Federalism">federalism</a> and limited national government seriously," and "undoubtedly made [the Supreme Court decision in] <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v.Lopez" title="United States v. Lopez">United States v. Lopez</a></i> more viable."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup></font></p>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notes</font></span></h2>

<li id="cite_note-gayner-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-gayner_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-gayner_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gayner, Jeffrey (October 12, 1995) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-contract-with-america-implementing-new-ideas-in-the-us">"The Contract with America: Implementing New Ideas in the U.S."</a> The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-16.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-2">^{</a></b></span}> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:HR00005:@@@L&summ2=m&">"Bill Summary & Status 104th Congress (1995 - 1996)"</a>.</span></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-3">^{</a></b></span}> <span class="reference-text"><span id="CITEREFCrane2000" class="citation"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Crane" title="Edward H. Crane" class="mw-redirect">Crane, Edward H</a> (November 13, 2000), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4463">"On My Mind: GOP Pussycats"</a>, <i>Forbes magazine</i>, Cato Institute</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AContract+with+America&rft.atitle=Forbes+magazine&rft.au=Crane%2C+Edward+H&rft.aufirst=Edward+H&rft.aulast=Crane&rft.btitle=On+My+Mind%3A+GOP+Pussycats&rft.date=November+13%2C+2000&rft.genre=bookitem&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cato.org%2Fpub_display.php%3Fpub_id%3D4463&rft.pub=Cato+Institute&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988">.</span></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-4">^{</a></b></span}> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news">Wines, Michael (1994-10-25). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5DC143FF936A15753C1A962958260">"The 1994 Campaign: The President; Campaigning On Economy, Clinton Plays The Teacher"</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company" title="The New York Times Company">The New York Times Company</a>)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2008-03-25</span>.</span></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-5">^{</a></b></span}> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.asne.org/kiosk/archive/convention/2000/clinton.htm">"Luncheon address by President Bill Clinton"</a>. The American Society of Newspaper Editors. 2000-11-28<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2012-02-16</span>.</span></span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America#cite_ref-6">^{</a></b></span}> <span class="reference-text"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Bernstein" title="David E. Bernstein" class="mw-redirect">Bernstein, David</a> (2010-12-16) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://volokh.com/2010/12/15/constitutional-doctrine-and-the-constitutionality-of-health-care-reform/">Constitutional Doctrine and the Constitutionality of Health Care Reform</a>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Volokh_Conspiracy" title="The Volokh Conspiracy">The Volokh Conspiracy</a></i></span></font></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h2>

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<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bader, John B. (1996). <i>Taking the Initiative: Leadership Agendas in Congress and the "Contract with America"</i>. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0%E2%80%9087840%E2%80%90628%E2%80%90X" title="Special:BookSources/0‐87840‐628‐X">0‐87840‐628‐X</a>.</font></span></li>

<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barnett, Timothy J. (1999). <i>Legislative Learning: The 104th Republican Freshmen in the House</i>. New York: Garland. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0%E2%80%90203%E2%80%9080037%E2%80%900" title="Special:BookSources/0‐203‐80037‐0">0‐203‐80037‐0</a>.</font></span></li>

<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Killian, Linda (1998). <i>The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?</i>. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0%E2%80%908133%E2%80%909951%E2%80%903" title="Special:BookSources/0‐8133‐9951‐3">0‐8133‐9951‐3</a>.</font></span></li>

<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koopman, Douglas L. (1996). <i>Hostile Takeover: The House Republican Party, 1980–1995</i>. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0%E2%80%908476%E2%80%908168%E2%80%908" title="Special:BookSources/0‐8476‐8168‐8">0‐8476‐8168‐8</a>.</font></span></li>

<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Micklethwait, John & Wooldridge, Adrian (2004). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Nation" title="The Right Nation">The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America</a></i>. New York: Penguin Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1%E2%80%9059420%E2%80%90020%E2%80%903" title="Special:BookSources/1‐59420‐020‐3">1‐59420‐020‐3</a>.</font></span></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="citation journal">Pitney, John J., Jr.; Hamby, Alonzo L; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Charen" title="Mona Charen">Charen, Mona</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deroy_Murdock" title="Deroy Murdock">Murdock, Deroy</a> & Pipes, Sally C. (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3565422.html">"100 Days That Shook the World? The Historical Significance of the Contract with America"</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Review" title="Policy Review">Policy Review</a></i> <b>73</b>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AContract+with+America&rft.atitle=100+Days+That+Shook+the+World%3F+The+Historical+Significance+of+the+Contract+with+America&rft.au=Charen%2C+Mona&rft.aufirst=John+J.%2C+Jr.&rft.au=Hamby%2C+Alonzo+L&rft.aulast=Pitney&rft.au=Murdock%2C+Deroy&rft.au=Pipes%2C+Sally+C.&rft.au=Pitney%2C+John+J.%2C+Jr.&rft.date=1995&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoover.org%2Fpublications%2Fpolicyreview%2F3565422.html&rft.jtitle=Policy+Review&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.volume=73" class="Z3988"> Conservative commentary.</span></font></li>

<li><span class="citation book"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rae, Nicol C. (1998). <i>Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress</i>. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0%E2%80%907656%E2%80%900128%E2%80%901" title="Special:BookSources/0‐7656‐0128‐1">0‐7656‐0128‐1</a>.</font></span></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources</font></span></h2>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html">Text of the Contract</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span title=" since August 2012" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a></i>]</span></sup>, from the U.S. House website</font></li>

<li><span class="citation web"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/ContractwithAmerica.html">"Contract with America - 1994"</a>. <i>Historical Documents</i>. National Center for Public Policy Research. 1 May 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 5 August 2012</span>.</font></span></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL549.cfm">The Contract with America: Implementing New Ideas in the U.S.</a>, from The Heritage Foundation</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1995/03/garrett.html">Beyond the Contract</a>, criticism of the Contract from <i>Mother Jones</i> magazine</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></li>

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