one of the investigations we had was of then speaker newt gingrich. speaker newt gingrich. the punishment was reprimand and a fine of $300,000. the speaker of the house. the vote was 29 -- 395 bipartisan vote charging the speaker of the house, 395-28. yesterday, two republicans would agree that it's not appropriate to have violence against women, workplace harassment. bad example for the rest of the country. dishonor to the house of representatives which you serve. two versus -- democrats and republicans, 395 versus 28 no republicans against the speaker of the house at the time. so it was most unfortunate, but nonetheless, i want to say i am proud of the committees. the rules committee went into action. jim mcgovern, as usual, and the rules committee prepared us to come to the floor. we met with the leadership and the members to see what the approach should be. and it was overwhelming that we would -- we could not let this stand. we had to go for the maximum penalty that we could achieve. anything more than that would have required 2/3 vote of the congress. you know that wa

he writes many people saw time of deep division and chaos -- that's newt gingrich from foxnews.com, his piece there. crystal, philadelphia. good morning. you're next. caller: oh, good morning, america. good morning, c-span. bipartisanship, i'm 63 years old. and i remember when even with differences and stuff, you could work together. the work -- to work stuff out. you meet up and they used to talk about going to having a beer and stuff together. but in this day and age? i just -- it is horrible. there's no common courtesy. a trouble -- troublemakers. instead of being lawmakers. they're working hard to make stuff work with helping common people. they gum up the system. they don't follow the rules on the floor. and they're just plain bullies. i don't know how you work with people like this. it makes no sense. and there is no -- doesn't seem to be any consequences. they threaten each other. and just act like it's high school instead of congress of the united states and they just block any and everything. whether it's good. if it's bad, point out what's bad. work out stuff and get stuff don

when newt gingrich became the speaker of the house way back when in 1995, he pursued and major transformation of power away from the committees into leadership. the staff associated with leadership essentially doubled, the staff associate with the committee was cut in half, or nearly in half. i think if you have more professional staff on committees , you might have more policy continuity, more of a commitment to the committee jurisdiction. another possible reformed that at the margins might be helpful, i don't think any of these are solutions in a permanent way. just at the margins, things that might be helpful is to maybe allow committee chairs to serve multiple terms. serve longer terms. there are restrictions on how long committee chairs can serve in the senate, for example. i think maybe if you have more of a stakeholder through the committee chair, that might get congress more engaged in that committee chair would have more incentive both as an expert given his or her reputation associated with the committee jurisdiction, more of a commitment to work with the minority to get the committ

newt gingrich said that was the second american revolution. the way to do away with programs like social security and child labor laws is to bankrupt the system. their strategy is to privatize profit and publicized the debt. why do you think we are trillions of dollars in debt? do you see any republicans say let's put half $1 billion directly to the debt? no because they do not care. just like cheney said the debt does not matter when the money is running in the old pocket. thank you so much. host: doug is next in virginia cannot republican line. as a republican, did the election turn out the way you wanted tuesday? caller: absolutely. virginians always rally when virginians have to rally. i am retired military. if everybody think this country sucks so bad, leave. i have been in communist countries. if people want us to be like that, leave. we will pay you to leave. all these people in congress need time limits so they cannot make a lifetime commitment of being corrupt. host: that is doug in virginia. mark is calling in from ohio on our democr

and we jump ahead to newt gingrich's contract with -- but was on -- america. that giant sucking sound we were told about. now 20 years later we are worried about taiwan. why don't we just bring all of those companies back to the u.s. that is in taiwan and make america great that way? how do you feel about this discussion? thank you and have a good day. guest: i think the caller touches on a very important point. we are concerned about china and competition from china on many fronts and with very good reason . he referred to american scores in stem and math. a big part of the issue has not to do with china, but with american performance and with american strength. many americans think we have seen a fraying of our democratic institutions. we have not invested enough in infrastructure, in research and development, in education. the way to compete with china is to be more competitive. there has to be a real effort at self-strengthening. this is what the biden administration has begun with this, with making america more competitive and trying to reinvest. it is no

and we jump ahead to newt gingrich's contract with -- but was on -- america. that giant sucking sound we were told about. now 20 years later we are worried about taiwan. why don't we just bring all of those companies back to the u.s. that is in taiwan and make america great that way? how do you feel about this discussion? thank you and have a good day. guest: i think the caller touches on a very important point. we are concerned about china and competition from china on many fronts and with very good reason . he referred to american scores in stem and math. a big part of the issue has not to do with china, but with american performance and with american strength. many americans think we have seen a fraying of our democratic institutions. we have not invested enough in infrastructure, in research and development, in education. the way to compete with china is to be more competitive. there has to be a real effort at self-strengthening. this is what the biden administration has begun with this, with making america more competitive and trying to reinvest. it is no

i remember when they elected newt gingrich and all you heard was, give them a chance. give kamala harris a chance. give the first woman vice president -- someday she might be the president and i think that is awesome. i think she would be a great president. i think she would be one of the best if not the best. can't be any worse than what we had the previous four years with trump. she is doing great and i don't understand what the controversy is all about. host: to our republican and ray in webster, new york. caller: yes, about kamala harris, i think she is doing a terrible job. when she went to the border all she did was laugh and the border issue is a serious issue. the next time people come over i think there should be no people allowed for so many years. too many people coming over and we are paying taxes where they live, go to school and everything. this is a bunch of bunk about labor. it is not going to fix everything in america. nancy is going to siphon a lot of money for her personal use. so, kamala harris is not doing a good job. host: ray talked about the vic

i remember when they elected newt gingrich and all you heard was, give them a chance. give kamala harris a chance. give the first woman vice president -- someday she might be the president and i think that is awesome. i think she would be a great president. i think she would be one of the best if not the best. can't be any worse than what we had the previous four years with trump. she is doing great and i don't understand what the controversy is all about. host: to our republican and ray in webster, new york. caller: yes, about kamala harris, i think she is doing a terrible job. when she went to the border all she did was laugh and the border issue is a serious issue. the next time people come over i think there should be no people allowed for so many years. too many people coming over and we are paying taxes where they live, go to school and everything. this is a bunch of bunk about labor. it is not going to fix everything in america. nancy is going to siphon a lot of money for her personal use. so, kamala harris is not doing a good job. host: ray talked about the vic

when newt gingrich came into power, he changed. he moved from people becoming political opponents to political enemies and talked like people were enemies of the state. and then fox news arrived, and the other cousin to them, newsmax, all of them, and they are just feeding everybody every day all this mccarthyism that will become socialists, communists, carrying on, and you beat this and heads long enough, you get people stirred up with a toxic elixir of enthusiasm and rage and give them the targets. it must be those liberal people everyday out there, and all of a sudden people of targets on their back. host: this is dug out of florida. republican -- this is doug out of florida. republican. go ahead. caller: yes. i think it is bad on both sides. like the other day i was watching c-span, and obama was telling that cop-26 to fight and stay angry -- telling at cop-26 to fight and stay angry. i get is that on both sides. host: robert, lynchburg, virginia. independent. caller: good morning. good morning, america. i am an independent. i