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FILE -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 4, 1995. Republicans didn't have a House speaker for 40 years until Gingrich reclaimed the gavel for the party in 1995. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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