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  Consequential GOP class of 1994 all but disappears
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Last EditedWA Indy  Sep 24, 2019 09:45am
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News DateSep 24, 2019 09:00am
DescriptionTwenty-five years ago Friday, 367 Republicans running for Congress lined up on the Capitol steps on a clear September day weeks before the midterm elections to sign the Contract with America.

Seventy-three were sworn in a few months later as part of the first Republican House majority in 40 years — and one of the most consequential groups of newcomers in modern political history.

Only three of those Republicans remain in Congress.
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