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‘YOU SON OF A BITCH!’

How Newt Gingrich Destroyed Congress

He went after three Democratic speakers. Two of them with absolutely vile lies. One resigned. The other lost re-election. And the House of Representatives was changed forever.

Timothy McNulty

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