Talk:Contract with America

Article misrepresents implementation
This article looks badly broken.It says that the Contract with America consisted of promises to do these things (quoting article):


 * require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
 * select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
 * cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
 * limit the terms of all committee chairs;
 * ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
 * require committee meetings to be open to the public;
 * require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
 * and implement a zero base-line budgeting process for the annual Federal Budget.

then it says that the contract was implemented by -- and lists a bunch of other things (cutting welfare, keeping US troops out of UN, and some other stuff I forget), and I don't think it lists any of the things promised???

I don't know if this is because the Contract With America was in fact ignored, or if the article simply gets confused and discusses the wrong stuff.


 * The foregoing criticism of the article seems to me to be correct. Many of the numbered provisions of the Contract were not attempted, or did not pass the House, but the article assumes that only the Senate and Clinton stood between the Republicans and the fulfillment of their promises. In its current form, the article has a POV that's heavily pro-Contract. JamesMLane t c 10:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the article is POV. It needs to be expanded and explained, and balanced with some alternative view points. --Laikalynx 22:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I am in agreement. This article makes reference to ten things, but only 8 make the bullet points. 128.122.89.57 (talk) 06:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree, the article is POV and/or incomplete. --Cowlinator (talk) 11:10, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


 * NPOV tag removed. The discussion you added to ended more than 10 years ago. The article has grown and improved in that time, and IMHO it presents a balanced discussion of the subject. You need to be much more specific if you want to restore the tag. Verne Equinox (talk) 00:18, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay is mentioned prominently in the first paragraph even though he was deputy minority whip at the time. The credit for the Contract With America lies with Newt Gingrich. Mentioning Tom DeLay without crediting Armey is as the leader who made it happen seems to be an attempt at "guilt by association". DeLay's name should be replaced by Armey since DeLay's role as leader was very diminished at this point in time. Comments? Tbeatty 17:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Derogatory nickname
Opponents sometimes referred to it as the "Contract on America"... AnonMoos 15:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I always thought of that as a "complimentary nickname". But I digress.... There should be mention of it in the article. --68.110.104.140 (talk) 03:14, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Wait, what?
Sponsored by Bill Paxton? I lol'd...

The proxy link doesn't connect right, I don't know how to do it, but can someone connect it to the proxy voting article? Thanks! Neutralityisimportant (talk) 04:15, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed link in beginning summary
The link in the summary right after Larry Hunter links to a partisan article, in direct violation of NPOV policies of Wikipedia. PokeHomsar (talk) 16:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Google hits on Contract for/on/with America
"Contract on America" 50,200 results "Contract with America" 586,000 results "Contract for America" 142,000 results Civic Cat (talk) 04:10, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996
Should this be created with discussion on the Congressional Review Act?&#8213; Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖  20:28, 15 December 2017 (UTC)