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About Newt Gingrich Newt Gingrich is well known as the architect of the Contract with America that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the United States House for the first time in 40 years. Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, in addition to passing the first tax cuts in 16 years. He has published seven books including the best sellers Contract with America and To Renew America. His most recent book is Winning the Future, in which he lays out a plan for America's greatness, including how to win the war on terror, reestablish God in American public life, reform Social Security, restore patriotism, and make American health care the global standard for excellence and accessibility. Gingrich serves as a member of the Defense Policy Board and is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals. He also teaches officers from all five services as a distinguished visiting scholar and professor at the National Defense University. He serves on the terrorism task force for the Council on Foreign Relations, is an editorial board member of the Johns Hopkins University journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, and is an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is also a news and political analyst for the Fox News channel. In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, the Hart/Rudman Commission to examine national security challenges through 2025. The report concluded that the No. 1 threat to the United States was the likelihood over the next 25 years of a weapon of mass destruction being used against one or more major cities unless our defense and intelligence structures underwent a massive transformation. That report was published six months before September 11. Gingrich is credited with the idea contained in the report of a Homeland Security agency with a Secretary to serve on the Cabinet level, because of his work on the Commission. President George W. Bush has since created the Department of Homeland Security. |
