Twenty years ago, 300 House Republican candidates stunned Democrats with its Contract With America.  This brief, clear document committed those who signed on to do several specific things if voters gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives, a body that Democrats had controlled for the prior four decades.  Eight of the promises in the Contract With America were internal changes in the operation of the House of Representatives, and the House fulfilled them.  The other part of this document promised to bring to floor votes within 100 days ten substantive bills that the Democrat leadership of the House had kept bottled up, protecting their members from having to vote on these measures.  This promise, too, was scrupulously honored. No document in modern American political history was kept as completely as the Contract With America.  Conservatives today who whine that Gingrich was not able to enact these ten bills into law ignore the explicit...(Read Full Article)