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American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The 1994 Contract with America, authored and championed by Newt Gingrich and allies, set an aggressive agenda of spending cuts, a balanced-budget amendment, and other reforms that Republicans pledged ...
In 1995 and 1996 the , holding the majorities that comprised the 104th Congress (January 3, 1995–January 3, 1997). The 1994 midterm elections produced a Republican sweep that gave the GOP the House sp...
The 1995–1996 federal government shutdowns ended when Congress approved temporary funding measures and a negotiated budget compromise that reopened agencies; the immediate resolutions were , and the l...
The 1995–1996 federal government shutdowns were initiated and led by House Republicans under Speaker Newt Gingrich as they pressed for the spending cuts in their Contract With America; public polling ...
was a 27-year-old staffer who was shot and killed in , on July 10, 2016; police described the slaying as likely a botched robbery and the case remains officially unsolved . In the years since his deat...
did not issue a wholesale condemnation of ; instead he offered guarded praise for the agency’s legality while acknowledging it is imperfect and calling for a national conversation about humane enforce...
Since 1980, the modern pattern of government shutdowns has been driven by a mix of actors—Presidents, coalitions and House majorities—but have been the principal drivers in a clear subset of the high-...
The 1995–1996 shutdowns were triggered by a budget standoff between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress led by Speaker Newt Gingrich over spending priorities and p...
Republican politicians have sometimes used partisan or demographic framing when discussing SNAP, with a body of reporting and commentary documenting specific instances of Republican leaders linking fo...
The 2013 shutdown centered on a House Republican strategy to condition funding on changes to the Affordable Care Act, producing a 16-day lapse that ended when Congress passed a continuing resolution f...
The available evidence shows that Democratic members did not singularly cause the 1995–1996 shutdowns through a discrete set of supportive votes; instead, the shutdowns resulted from a standoff betwee...
Republican leaders have repeatedly negotiated with Democrats to end government shutdowns, often accepting , votes on unrelated policy priorities, or scaled-back demands to reopen the government quickl...
The 1995–1996 federal government shutdowns were the result of a high-stakes budget standoff between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the newly Republican-controlled Congress led by House Speaker ...
The supplied materials do not contain information about the causes of the federal government shutdowns during President Bill Clinton’s administration; every cited item explicitly focuses on contempora...