Video of Newt's speech to The Heritage Foundation today.

Link to video.



Newt, writes Heritage at the above link, "broke the problems down into three categories: constitutional, intellectual, and legislative issues."

If you are interested, here are transcripts of two of Newt's previous speeches at Heritage: Building the Conservative Movement after Ronald Reagan (1988) and The Washington Establishment vs. The American People: A Report from the Budget Summit (1990).

The latter of which, writes Lee Edwards of Heritage, "Gingrich quoted from Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, Reagan's 1964 television address for Goldwater, Bill Buckley's National Review, and two articles by Irving Kristol in the Wall Street Journal."

(An apology to subscribers of this blog: I wrote a post that said Newt was to speak at Heritage today, but when I went to make a change, did not it "publish post" again. So it did not show up in the daily e-mail this morning.)

Letter from Team 10 to the House and Senate seeking to end the "Super Committee"

Here is the full letter:

Dear Members of the House and Senate:

We are writing you as activists in the tea party and 912 movements, and as believers in the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which states:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The recent debt ceiling agreement established an inadequate, centralized system of trying to find $1.5 trillion in savings over the next 10 years by empowering just 12 out of 535 members.

Therefore we ask that in early September, every committee and subcommittee should hold hearings on enforcing the 10th Amendment.

We are convinced that if you will take seriously the complaints from state and local officials about unnecessary red tape, unnecessary federally imposed expenses and federally mandated waste, you will find a lot of the savings you need.

After all, if the federal government did not require so much reporting by businesses, doctors, hospitals and state and local government, billions could be saved in unnecessary compliance costs.

If the federal government allowed businesses, hospitals, doctors and state and local governments to exercise common sense, a lot of federal aid could be eliminated and the money saved.

If you begin the fall session in September with a series of hearings in which the appropriate subcommittees and committees hear from the American people on these topics, you will have a huge menu of savings on your plate by mid October.

Ultimately, we don't just want marginally less expensive government. We want government that is effective, limited and Constitutional. The best way to accomplish this is for you, our elected officials, to enforce the 10th Amendment and return power back to the states respectively, to the people.

Respectfully,

Jim Conklin, Team 10 Iowa
Michelle McManus, Team 10 New Hampshire
Elisabet Wilson, Team 10 South Carolina
Wendy Bloedt, Team 10 Georgia
Guyann Bracken-Fay, Team 10 Florida
Debbie Wilson, Team 10 Florida
Tamara Colbert, Team 10 California
Mike Alexander, Team 10 California

About Team 10

Tea party and 912 Project leaders from around the country are leading Team 10. Through Facebook, the Team is soliciting ideas on how to enforce the 10th Amendment and limit government in Washington. Through voting, online and in-person events, and talking with each other, the best of these ideas will eventually become a “10th Amendment Enforcement Act.” As the Republican nominee, Gingrich would include the “10th Amendment Enforcement Act” as part of a new Contract with America. Team 10 is online at www.Newt.org/Team10

Newt will speak in front of the Heritage Foundation Tuesday

The speech, at 9 AM ET, will be titled "Stop the Super Committee Now: Restore Consent of the Governed." It is scheduled to be shown live on C-SPAN2 and on CSPAN.org. (Update: A comment left by a reader points out that Heritage.org will stream it live.)

Here is the press release from the campaign.

The video of Newt calling it a "dumb idea" during the recent Ames debate.