As summer wanes, America awaits new contract from GOP

 

Published: August 22, 2010

I N the summer of 1994, U.S. House Republicans sensed opportunity in the second year of the Clinton administration to channel unhappiness with its policies — particularly a new health care proposal — into something historic: a GOP House majority for the first time in 40 years.

The gathering Republican wave needed focus. GOP leaders, including Newt Gingrich , Dick Armey and John Boehner , conceived...


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