... Crossroads America Graham Lindsey Orwell George welfare and welfare reform Charles and David Koch John Boehner Paul Ryan Barack Obama Affordable Care Act Tea Party McCain-Feingold Americans for Prosperity Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the forty...

...., McCarthyism). Anti-Vietnam War and student movements arise Newt Gingrich intensifies partisanship. Donald Trump wins Republican nomination and surprisingly defeats Hilary Clinton. Trust in government declines. collective power distributive power legitimacy power conflicts Weber Max Declaration...

... the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’ (ATF) behavior at Ruby Ridge and at the Branch Davidian compound Mount Carmel, led by David Koresh, and the subsequent Waco siege. Politically, angry white men voted en masse in 1994, and the result was the Republicans captured Congress, Newt Gingrich, who...

... for whip, in which Newt Gingrich (R-GA) narrowly bested Ed Madigan (R-IL) and positioned himself to become the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years. It then considers three additional cases of open competition for GOP posts: the minority leader and whip races in 1980 and the majority whip...

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... George H. W. Bush Newt Gingrich George W. Bush it was a clear, crisp day in Washington as three hundred Republican members of the House of Representatives and GOP congressional candidates assembled on the steps of the Capitol on September 27, 1994. Behind them was a large blue sign that read...

... leaders during their tenure as college students battling against the peace movement’s anti-war protests, including Newt Gingrich, Tom Charles Houstin, Pat Buchanan, David Keene, Randal Teague, James Lacy, and others. anti riot laws antiwar movement civil rights historically Black colleges...

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... Study General Social Survey factor analysis item response theory Newt Gingrich Many people are quick to paint the American public in a negative light. In his book On Voter Competence, Paul Goren summarized the conclusions of much of the public opinion literature: “Notwithstanding...

...American public television approached 1995 in the knowledge that the Republican Party now controlled Congress and, in the shape of Representative Newt Gingrich, would be asking some difficult questions about federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and thus in part for the whole...

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.... In the Republican Revolution, led by Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party struggled to hold together these mainstream and extreme factions to gain and retain power. This further integrated conservative, Western anger with federal land management into national politics. colleges and universities leftist influence...

... Union NAFTA Bill Clinton triangulation Robert Rubin Alvin Toffler Newt Gingrich the New Economy Telecom Reform Wall Street as late as 1989, the Soviet Union was one of the world’s two superpowers. It dwarfed all other land empires in size. It possessed a formidable nuclear arsenal...

... as a policy arm, McCurdy pushed “national service” legislation as avenue to reorient liberal policy back into the political mainstream. Alarmed by Newt Gingrich's campaign to paint Southern and Midwestern Democrats as somehow beyond the mainstream, McCurdy pushed his legislation to save his party in Oklahoma...

...Newt Gingrich was crucial to the transformation of the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives. When he entered the chamber in 1978, Republicans mostly cooperated with Democrats in passing legislation that they, in part, helped write. Gingrich, through both converting existing member...

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... SPAN O’Neill Tip special orders speeches budget committee chair Congress defense foreign affairs media minority party Newt Gingrich party leader taxes In 1977 Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston (D-CA) announced he would discontinue briefing the press following Democratic leaders’ meetings...