Contract With America

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God, guns, and freedom
U.S. Politics

Starting arguments over Thanksgiving dinner

* Fairness Doctrine
* USA PATRIOT Act
* Going Galt
* Marc Thiessen
* Pat Toomey
* Foreign policy of Donald Trump
* Paul Wellstone

Persons of interest

* Tad Devine
* Alexander Hamilton
* Jon Kyl
* Sarah Palin
* Ron Paul
* Rutherford B. Hayes

v \- t \- e

The Contract With America (also known as the "Contract on America") was a series of ~~ironicallySatanic bullshit~~ electioneering platform points formed by Newt Gingrich in the runup to the 1994 mid-term elections in the United States. Some, such as welfare reform (read: gutting) and a moratorium on regulation, had been GOP talking points for several years. Gingrich had been grooming potential congressional candidates, and his Contract was a unifying theme among them. While there were almost certainly other reasons involved, he and his proteges succeeded in taking control of the House of Representatives. However, the U.S. Constitution's much-derided system of checks and balances came through and most of the bills implementing reforms advocated in the Contract were stopped in the Senate.

## See also[edit]

* Great Recession

## External links[edit]

* Contract scorecard by PBS \- Which parts have become law?

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