House GOP's new 'Commitment to America' agenda is heavy on education and fighting crime, inflation

House Republicans are making their strongest pitch to midterm voters yet with their ‘Commitment to America’ agenda that focuses on law and order, education and the economy.

“Republicans have a plan for a new direction,” House Minority Leader McCarthy, California Republican, said in a promotional video to preview the agenda.

The GOP’s legislative roadmap, which was inspired by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract with America,” will be formally unveiled by Mr.

McCarthy and other House Republicans at an event Friday in the Pittsburgh suburbs.

Gingrich, whose “Contract for America” ushered in the first House GOP majority since the 1950s, was consulted by GOP lawmakers who drafted the party’s new legislative vision.

Gingrich said the document was a breakthrough designed entirely by the new generation of Republican leaders.

McCarthy was also shaped by several task forces he created to discern and fine-tune Republican priorities on issues including climate change, China’s rise and threats to American freedom.

Republicans are expected to retake the House majority in the November midterms, when they need a net gain of only five seats to flip the lower chamber.

Democrats, meanwhile, have labeled the GOP as a party of extremists, mirroring President Biden’s warning to voters that MAGA Republicans are a threat to democracy and decency.

“The contrast between House Democrats’ commitment to our Constitution and the American people versus extreme MAGA Republicans’ commitment to protecting their own political power has never been more evident,” said Rep.

“The extreme agenda they’ll be putting out makes it harder for Americans to vote, would purge eligible voters from polls, and give extreme MAGA state legislators absolute power to change the rules of elections, including after the election,” Mrs