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The house selects Newt Gingrich as speaker of the house. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the house, i first want to thank my democratic colleagues for their support and confidence. I noted that we were a little short. I appreciate your friendship and support. As you might imagine, this is not a moment that i had been waiting for. [laughter] when you carry the mantle of progress, there is precious little glory and defeat. Sometimes we spend so much time labeling the losers, we lose sight of the victory that we all share in this crown jewel of democracy. You see, mr. Speaker, this ...

There were many legislative fights, but there was almost always a decisive outcome. Consequently, i will continue to do all i can to expedite the nations business in this house for the next two years because the members of this house are elected every two years, we put a premium on action and results. We expect conflict, but i hope that we will reject any obstructionism. I am prepared to work with the leadership of the other 40, the president of the United States bob michael and republican members of this house to try to reduce the deficit, reduce unemployment rates, and reduce the threat of a...

Watch. And how does that make you feel, really, since it was so important to you . I would do it again. I mean, i think it is so important to try to push this issue forward. Somebody had to start. And people said to me, its too complicated. It cant be done. And i showed them it can be done. Thats really the most important thing. The second most important thing that came out of this is we got dynamic scoring of a tax bill for the first time. Dynamic scoring is a much more real world evaluation of what were trying to do. Typically, tax bills had been scored by what they call static scoring, whic...

Courts and the states, and i think congress has been disabled by the fact that the senate was democratic. Its still going to be somewhat disabled because its a change is going to require the president s signature. But we have these other two backstops and i think whatever congress may do if it can do anything effective, the Administration First needs to need its help and a sequence of state decisions or Court Decisions could be the ant seedent to that. Part of this is because the legislative process wasnt followed. This is the biggest change frankly in entitlements since the creation of medica...

Diagnosis two years ago. This is about 30 minutes. House ways and Means Committee chairman dave camp. Closing hourson on congress. In your time here, youve had something of a singular focus for tax reform, tax overhaul. Youre leaving Congress Without that. Ing why not . Well, when i became chairman four years ago, i knew that we about thisomething policy that had expired. It then we retroactively put in place. Were the only nation in the world that lets its tax policy expire. So my first hearing was on tax reform. Youre right. Focus. My i spent really three years i put out a discussion draft o...