Gingrich

[ging-grich]

noun

1. Newt(on), born 1943, U.S. politician.

Example Sentences

They began to do all they could to shut down government and to excoriate Democrats, using the list of pejorative terms former House Speaker Newt Gingrich cribbed from conservative shock-jock Rush Limbaugh.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a veteran of the big shutdown fights of the 1990s, told NPR that Vought and his team have been preparing for exactly these kind of circumstances while they were in the political wilderness during the Biden years.

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In that shutdown, Republicans shouldered the blame after insisting on deep budget cuts that Clinton wouldn’t accept—while Gingrich was portrayed in the press as a cry baby throwing a fit of pique.

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That muscle memory goes back to the first marquee shutdown of the modern era: The 1995-96 showdown between Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton.

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Working hand-in-hand with Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Clinton pushed into law the 1996 Telecommunications Act — a major, corrupt piece of legislation largely written by corporate lobbyists and barely debated in Congress.

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