[skeptoid]

"How much of the "Contract with America" did Newt get put into legislation?"

....VERY LITTLE!? !

The most charitable reply to that statement is 'you have a very poor memory'.

The correct answer is virtually ALL of it.

Witness:
"The ten items in the Contract were all acted upon in the first 100 days of the new Congress, which is what the signatories had pledged. Nine of the ten items in the Contract passed the House: Only the constitutional amendment on term limits (which required a two-thirds vote) was defeated. Out of a total of 302 roll call votes on issues related to the Contract With America, the conservatives prevailed on 299 of them. A balanced budget amendment passed in the House by a 300-123 margin but was subsequently defeated as it fell one vote short of the two-thirds needed for passage in the U.S. Senate. The overall margin by which the items in the Contract were passed averaged about 70 percent despite the fact that the Republicans only held a 12-seat margin over the Democrats (52-48 percent, the smallest House majority margin in 40 years). Given the notorious lack of party discipline in the American Congress, the passage by a large majority of nearly all of the items in the Contract was a remarkable achievement."

This stuff is quickly and easily found .... on the internet.

Yours for accurate recollection,
skeptoid

[Digger]

A balanced budget amendment passed in the House by a 300-123 margin but was subsequently defeated as it fell one vote short of the two-thirds needed for passage in the U.S. Senate.

Isn't is always amazing that large issues geared in peoples favor fail by one vote? The term limits could have passed because this same group - the Supremes - would have overturned it. Remember in government, once you figure out the rules & start to put these in place for our benefit, the pols change the rules. Remember one other statement by me when GW was 1st elected I stated & guaranteed no true conservative Supreme Court when he left.

[JerseyJohn61]

Excellent work Skeptoid....JJ61

[Reagan Man]

As Newt Gingrich himself has said about the CWT: "there is no comparable congressional document in our two-hundred-year history."

I don't know if Newt will choose to run for POTUS in 2008, but Gingrich is the best visionary thinker the GOP has today. On most issues, Newt embodies conservatism.

[stripes1776]

This stuff is quickly and easily found .... on the internet.

Then you will have your memory refreshed that most of these bills died in the Senate. And there it ended.