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american history tv continues now with a look at the historical and political legacy of former house speaker newt gingrich. this was part of a two-day conference hosted by the library of congress. it s just under an hour and a half. this is our final panel on the congress in history on newt gingrich. arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past 100 years. i think there s no dispute we re all living in the era and legacy of newt gingrich. so i m going to turn it over to jacob strauss, who s our chair. for the panel from the congressional research service. thank you, colleen. it s a pleasure to be here. you guys have put on a great conference. it s wonderful to get away from my desk for a little bit and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress. so i m very happy to be here. as colleen said, we re going to talk today about the historical and political legacy of newt gingrich. obviously, we stand between lunch and you goin ....
conference hosted by the library of congress. it s 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 there s no dispute that we re 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. it s wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so i m 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. we ll start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. as w ....
the other party, you could do an amazing job there now, much better than you ever could before. but there are other things that are at play as well. for example, population sorting. there s a wonderful book that some of you might want to read by a guy named bill bishop called the big sort. and he basically talks about how people, in a sense, they kind of vote with their feet in that people tend to move and concentrate with people like themselves. people are more comfortable when they re with like-minded people, and that this is becoming more and more and more so. and that when you look at, say, democratic districts or look at, look geographically across the country, what are the districts the democrats tend to represent? they tend to be large urban areas and close in suburbs and college towns. and then you say, okay, where do republicans live? small town, rural america and in the more outer reaches which are the faster growing of the suburbs. but that s a clear popu ....
and so that approach generally, generally doesn t work, but you, you know, you could establish distance without trashing, you know, an incumbent for your side. and there was a famous election, it was bush 1990. george h.w. bush, his midterm election. and ed rollins who had managed one of president reagan s campaigns had top staff job at the national republican congressional committee. and he wrote a memo that went out to all the republican house members saying, um, you know, effectively, you know, we all love president bush and he s a great guy and all like that, but your most important job right now is to get reelected and do whatever you need to do to get reelected, and feel prix to put distance free to put distance between yourself and the president. not surprisingly, the white house went crazy. and i m trying to remember whether ed had to resign or not. do you remember if he did or not? i remember they were calling for his resignation. i don t remember whether h ....
caused the water to back up and cascade national rotunda. series of en on a projects since that time to that the drainage system compromised again by debr debris. and it led to though the development of the master plan nd study of the iron work and to the project we are now going to get completed in the next two years. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] we will have prime minister s questions live wednesday 7:00 a.m. watch next sunday at the usual time 9:00 p.m. eastern. moments ckup a few charlie cook talks about the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. at 11:00 p.m. q&a with economist marty sullivan. and later another chance to see u.s. capitol dome tour highlighting what will be repaired in a two-year restoration project. 435 house seats and 35 senate eats will be decided in the upcoming 2014 midterm election. next political analyst charlie cook political report talks about what he expect ....