Lifetime Voting News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

When he was speaker. >> if you look at his voting record, over 90% acu, lifetime voting record over three decades in the house. he balanced the budget, helped lead the charge of balance the budget for the first time in the generation, balanced it for the first time since the 1920s. if you look at his record, it's a very conservative record. it's historically conservative. >> i don't think -- i don't know whether i agree with it being historically conservative. but here's the bottom line -- >> what was accomplished from '95 through '98? >> well, i think if you talk to john kasich, he would tell...

>> new jersey is going to be a tough state for any republican so start with that as a granted. i think new jerseyans have a long memory about his time as speaker of the house and i don't think -- he was very unpopular in new jersey back then. >> why? >> i think people saw him as uncompromising and incindiary when he was speaker. so -- >> how do you -- >> a very fair way of pitting it. >> -- balance things looking at newt. have you ever met newt? >> yeah. >> do you like him personally? >> i don't know him well enough to say if i like him personally. certainly he didn't offend me when i met him....