Well, we messed up several years ago when we had the New Deal with America underneath Newt Gingrich, which not saying what he did was wrong. What he did was right at the time. But Congress has a really hard problem by overreacting. And we do it for political purposes instead of really thinking about the consequences. Moving down ahead. So when he did A New Contract With America, what he did is he took away earmarks. Earmarks is a bad thing. (1:01:47–1:01:55)
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