During the 1983 congressional page sex scandal, Gingrich was among those calling for the expulsion of representatives Dan Crane and Gerry Studds. Newt Gingrich Net Worth: $9 million Source of Wealth: Politician, Business Person, Author, Film Producer. [280] He and Callista live in McLean, Virginia. He worked with the US government for three years and was even their spokesman. [264] Although Gingrich's presidential campaign staff continued to insist in 2011 that Jackie had requested the divorce, court documents from Carroll County, Georgia, indicated that Jackie had in fact asked a judge to block the process, stating that although "she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce she does not desire one at this time [and] does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken. Despite this, on April 19, Gingrich told Republicans in New York that he would work to help Romney win the general election if Romney secured the nomination. Much of the southern portion of Gingrich's district, including his home in Carrollton, was drawn into the Columbus-based 3rd district, represented by five-term Democrat Richard Ray. [114] On January 21, 1997, the House officially reprimanded Gingrich (in a vote of 395 in favor, 28opposed) and "ordered [him] to reimburse the House for some of the costs of the investigation in the amount of $300,000". After a recount, Gingrich prevailed by 980 votes, with a 51 to 49 percent result. "[27], In 1970, Gingrich joined the history department at West Georgia College, where he spent "little time teaching history. "[56] Charles S. Bullock III, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, said "Speaker Murphy didn't like having a Republican represent him. On July 16, Paxon offered to resign his post, feeling that he had not handled the situation correctly, as the only member of the leadership who had been appointed to his position by Gingrich instead of elected. [262], In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Gingrich visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Gingrich began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that "it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie. The shutdown ended when Clinton agreed to submit a CBO-approved balanced budget plan. )[90] There were also reductions in a number of other taxes on investment gains. He also stated that, in the context of whether the United States would provide aid to Estonia (a NATO member) in the event of a Russian invasion, he "would think about it a great deal". Gingrich supported the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, which created the Medicare Part D federal prescription drugs benefit program. [74][75][76][54], University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason identified Gingrich's instructions to Republicans to use words such as betray, bizarre, decay, destroy, devour, greed, lie, pathetic, radical, selfish, shame, sick, steal, and traitors about Democrats as an example of a breach in social norms and exacerbation of partisan prejudice. ", Financial information (U.S. House campaigns), Newt Gingrich papers at the University of West Georgia, National Republican Congressional Committee, Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, Minority whips of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party whips of the U.S. House of Representatives, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich&oldid=1142380376, 21st-century American non-fiction writers, Candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election, Censured or reprimanded members of the United States House of Representatives, Converts to Roman Catholicism from Baptist denominations, Politicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state), Speakers of the United States House of Representatives, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from June 2021, Articles with dead external links from June 2016, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from January 2023, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Celebrity Leaders is a booking agency that handled Gingrich's speaking engagements, as well as those other clients such as former Republican National Committee chair.