Haley Barbour in Real Change, by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R, GA)

On Principles & Values: 1994: As RNC chair, gambled on big positive ideas

In 1994, we achieved the largest one-party vote increase in a off-year election in American history. Nine million more people voted for Republicans (and one million fewer people voted for Democrats) between the 1990 and the 1994 elections. We elected the first Republican majority in forty years and then managed the House through a confrontation with a liberal president, a government shutdown, and a balanced budget effort that included reforming Medicare. Then we won reelection for the first time since 1928.