In the 1994 elections, conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich, who would subsequently become the speaker of the US House of Representatives, sought to unify the Republicans around an election manifesto, 'the Contract with America,' that aimed to dismantle the New Deal and the Great Society. Had a platform which promised to curtail the scope of government, cut back on taxes and economic and environmental regulation, overhaul the welfare system, and end affirmative action

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1. In the 1994 elections, conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich, who would subsequently become the speaker of the US House of Representatives, sought to unify the Republicans around an election manifesto, 'the Contract with America,' that aimed to dismantle the New Deal and the Great Society. Had a platform which promised to curtail the scope of government, cut back on taxes and economic and environmental regulation, overhaul the welfare system, and end affirmative action