All statements involving Newt Gingrich
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are "government-sponsored enterprises" like Freddie Mac.
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
Says Mitt Romney "put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board."
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
"More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.
"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent."
"As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions."
"No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’"
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
Says Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all "government sponsored" enterprises.
Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion."
"I never lobbied under any circumstance" for Freddie Mac.
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
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