Newt Gingrich said that if he is elected president, and Republicans increase their numbers significantly in the House and take a strong majority in the Senate, he will start right off with a bold agenda: Ask the Congress sworn in on Jan. 3, two and a half weeks before his inauguration, to pass a whole raft of bills repealing “Obamacare,” the Dodd-Frank financial regulation, and the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley accounting regulations.
“And my goal is to have all three bills sitting there waiting, so the minute I am sworn in, I can sign all three — and we’re off to a pretty good opening morning.”
Technically, Gingrich could not sign those bills as a “pretty good opening morning” the minute he sworn in — under the Constitution, the President is sworn in at noon.