Gingrich Looks Forward To ‘Pretty Good Opening Morning’ Signing Bills

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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.

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