Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea
Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea
Been about thats not what california is about. If you know anything about california, ive studied the state 50 years or more, you realize it is so topsyturvy its like a roller coaster gone bad. It can be a booming state economically one year 30 billion the next, a state that embraces immigrants and that has done everything it can to make immigrants feel uncomfortable. It can be a state where there is nothing but flowing water and enabling everybody to grow and it can be estate in their fightr six years later where theres nothing to drink. There are so many extremes and just when we think we are at the top of things it falls down, so thats why it is the rise and fall. It comes and goes. But at the end of the day i think it is the most exciting place to be. The rise has been up and down. California had an incredible boom in the gold rush. Thats what started it. All these people came to california and basically store the state. They will put it more gently but thats what happens into the
Been about thats not what california is about. If you know anything about california, ive studied the state 50 years or more, you realize it is so topsyturvy its like a roller coaster gone bad. It can be a booming state economically one year 30 billion the next, a state that embraces immigrants and that has done everything it can to make immigrants feel uncomfortable. It can be a state where there is nothing but flowing water and enabling everybody to grow and it can be estate in their fightr six years later where theres nothing to drink. There are so many extremes and just when we think we are at the top of things it falls down, so thats why it is the rise and fall. It comes and goes. But at the end of the day i think it is the most exciting place to be. The rise has been up and down. California had an incredible boom in the gold rush. Thats what started it. All these people came to california and basically store the state. They will put it more gently but thats what happens into the
Been about thats not what california is about. If you know anything about california, ive studied the state 50 years or more, you realize it is so topsyturvy its like a roller coaster gone bad. It can be a booming state economically one year 30 billion the next, a state that embraces immigrants and that has done everything it can to make immigrants feel uncomfortable. It can be a state where there is nothing but flowing water and enabling everybody to grow and it can be estate in their fightr six years later where theres nothing to drink. There are so many extremes and just when we think we are at the top of things it falls down, so thats why it is the rise and fall. It comes and goes. But at the end of the day i think it is the most exciting place to be. The rise has been up and down. California had an incredible boom in the gold rush. Thats what started it. All these people came to california and basically store the state. They will put it more gently but thats what happens into the