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Candidate Newt and Sen. Chuck in rare 'Contract' agreement

In a Friday campaign stop in Greenville, S.C., Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich paid a rare compliment to a New York Democrat for understanding what he was trying to do as House Speaker in 1994 with the Contract with America.

"Ironically, only one person has written about it accurately, and that's a Democrat. Senator Charles Schumer wrote a book a couple years ago, and he...

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