Opinion by Karen Tumulty: House Republicans’ legislative “plan” is not even close to an echo of the storied 1994 “Contract With America.”
“We want to roll it out to you, the entire country, to know exactly what we will do if you would trust us and give us the ability to take a new direction for this country,” McCarthy told a friendly audience at a manufacturing plant. “What the Commitment is, is a plan.”
A plan? A set of policy specifics? Hardly. It was not even close to what Republicans had hoped would sound like an echo ofwhich was not only a set of campaign promises but also a blueprint for governing. The Pittsburgh-area event was a telling indication of the difficulties that lie ahead for McCarthy if he is given the gavel he has so long coveted — and, with it, the responsibility to actually govern at the head of a
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