The Contract with America was signed by the following list of 367 Republican candidates for U.S. Congress on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on September 27, 1994. All candidates had won the Republican nomination in their respective districts and were candidates in the 1994 U.S. Congressional general elections.[1][2]
List of 1994 Contract with America Signers
Three days after the signing of the Contract with America, Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney stated in the Congressional Record that the list of signers had not been made public.[3]
The list of Contract With America signers was released to the public by the organizers of the Contract with America including Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Ed Gillespie and Bob Schellhas, the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was published between October and December 1994 with three different publishers (Three Rivers Press, Time Books, and Random House) in paperback editions all using the same title, Contract With America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation and same ISBN 0812925866.[4][5][6]
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Michael Castle (DE at Large)
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
American Samoa
Amata Coleman Radewagen (Samoa, at large)
South Carolina
South Dakota
Jan Berkhout (SD, at large)
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Barbara Cubin (WY, at large)
See also
References
- ^ Gingrich, Newt; Richard K. Armey; Ed Gillespie; Bob Schellhas (1994). Contract With America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. New York: Times Books. pp. 196. ISBN 0-8129-2586-6.
- ^ Republican National Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee. "Republican Contract With America Rally". West Front, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.: C-Span.
- ^ McKinney, Cynthia (30 September 1994). "Republicans Refuse to Disclose Names of Contract Signers". Congressional Record. 140 (140). Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ Republican National Committee (December 1994). Contract With America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. Washington, D.C.: Republican National Committee, Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-8129-2586-6.
- ^ Gingrich, Newt; Richard K Armey; Ed Gillespie; Bob Schellhas (1994). Contract With America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-2586-6.
- ^ Gillespie, Ed; Bob Schellhas (1994). Contract with America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-8129-2586-6.
- Republican Contract With America. Washington, D.C.: Republican National Committee and Three Rivers Press, 1994.
- Gingrich, Newt and Richard K Armey, Ed Gillespie, and Bob Schellhas. Contract With America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. New York: Times Books, 1994.
- Gillespie, Ed and Bob Schellhas. Contract with America; The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation. New York: Random House, 1994.
- Klinkner, Philip A. Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context. Westview Press, 1996.