mr. gingrich -- host: frank, we can hear you. go ahead. caller: everything they asked for, they pushed it through. and when we get a democrat that takes over, we have a whole bunch of stuff up and everything else. he kept on for 80 years now, they push things through the way they want. they kept on for eight years now, they pushed things through that they want. every time some millionaire comes up there and once to push something through, they do it with flying colors. guest: thank you for your call. you are getting right down to the root of politics now, and certainly we only have two major parties in this country. every two years, every member of the house of representatives, all 435 of us, are up for reelection. and 1/3 of the senate, every two years. so literally, that you have this political bloodbath every two years for control. certainly, the democrats are strongly in control at this time, and we as the loyal minority, work hard to get back that control. when we are in control, the democrats -- and it is their job to do this, to try

mr. gingrich stated he was not a citizen of the world, with much fervor and fanfare, yet, low and behold, mr. reagan, president reagan stated in front of the united nations that he was a citizen of the world. could you tie and the disconnect -- those who espouse reagan and yet strobel -- strobel in a plea at attempts to carry the banner of reagan -- struggle ineptly to carry the banner with shenanigans and over the top sound bites. guest: thank you for the assignment. i will look at it, and i appreciate your kind words about my work. i think the question you raised is a fascinating one, not just for the republicans in 2009 but any political group at any time looking back at certain leaders for inspiration, for solace. particularly, parties who are not having a particularly easy time of it are particularly prone to try to look back and find a plan and playbook and hope that that leads them out of the wilderness. it is completely understandable human and -- reaction. i'm a great admirer of president reagan. he was the president of my childhood and his examples in some ways got me interested

mr. gingrich, dr. gingrich who is here, walked at a key time and later scored. mr. skalise who is here played second base some. and also did some base running and scored. so mr. pitts who he came out and watched the game. [laughter] >> and luckily didn't try to play. although we could have used his bombing skills from the vietnam war. so any way, we raised quite a bit of money for charity and had a good time. and we now see mike doyle and you see that he's grinning from ear to ear, just congratulate him and tell him to take pity on the downtrodden republicans who didn't quite have the stuff last night. [laughter] >> on this hearing, mr. chairman, i do want to thank you, thank mr. boucher, mr. sterns, mr. rodanovich, for working in a bipartisan fashion to protect the privacy and security of every american's personal information. i'm glad that we are working on this in a bipartisan way. i especially appreciate chairman roush's agreement to act on the republicans' data security bill. that bill has implications for the broader privacy discussion, and i hope that that bi

mr. gingrich. >> thank you for being with us this morning. you were asked about your grade as governor i would say your grade so far this morning has been pretty good so hopefully you won't mind a couple of tough questions from me. in quoting in your testimony, without reform, according to the medicare actuaries we'll spends about $4.4 trillion on health care in 2018 and by 2040 health care cost also reach 40% of gdp. madam secretary these numbers are indeed, staggering and i share your concerns. however, i have another concern and i need to be reassured that you share that. the medicare trustees report that the medicare problem will be insolvent 2016, receive health care from a government payor and your testimony focuses almost exclusively on the private sectk health car care -- private sector companies. given that 45% of all americans get their health care from a government program, and the fact that your department oversees the largest government program tasked with insurance of quality health care for our seniors is available both today a

mr. clerk, the speaker elects newt gingrich, aren't from georgia. >> newt gingrich pledged with passion tomerica's promise. he was the first republican speaker in 40 years. and everyone could feel the significance of that moment. >> we can find ways to reach out and break through the bureaucracy and to get every american child a better chance. >> and so began the most productive first 100 days of any time in history. we are on schedule. we are getting the job done with enormous help from the american people. >> middle-class tax relief, anticrime legislation, job creation, tort reform, small business incentives, and a balanced budget. but that's not where our story ends. newt gingrich is still one of the most active voices of our conservative movement. >> having the health system become more efficient, taking the waste out of administrative costs, drill here, drill now, pay less. and i believe we have to elevate fundamental break throughs in learning for all americans. >> armed with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, this former history teacher continues to not only inspire but educate a

life leader henry hyde, former house speaker newt gingrich and former rep bobolink is -- bob livingston who resigned just before assuming the speaker chair. mr. sanford voted in favor of three of the four articles of and be against it in -- mr. cullen. he was in the house of representatives before being elected. geraldine is joining us on independent line from mount pleasant, south carolina. caller: good morning. i object to of the fact that all of the news media and newspapers are focusing more on the fact that what he did to his family, what he did to his sons, that is all well and good. as far as i'm concerned, his private life is his private life. but when it affects the people of south carolina, then it is morally and very objectionable. he left them for five days without a leader, no one knew where he was. he probably would have been gone long. if somebody had not said to him, he was the national object of scorn. but he left us unprotected. no one knew how to get ahold of him. and this is not the first time. when the fires were up and myrtle beach he was not anywhere around. so, to me, that is where the public officials, when they let