Speaker of the House · 1979–1999
Newt Gingrich
Contract with America. Made the House partisan, conservative, and televised, then lost the speakership.
Newt Gingrich is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Speaker of the House, 1979–1999. The placement note is: Contract with America. Made the House partisan, conservative, and televised, then lost the speakership.
The dot is economics +46 and authority +36. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: A Contract with America: balanced budget, welfare reform, term limits, a different House. Done: Welfare reform and a balanced-budget fight happened. Term limits did not. He lost the speakership. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Tom DeLay (+44 / +34) and Dick Cheney (+42 / +38). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.