They don’t want you to call it the Contract with...

They don’t want you to call it the Contract with America. [This] morning, House Republicans will unveil “The Pledge to America,” outlining a “governing agenda” for Republicans as they try to regain control of the House.

JON KARL - ABC News Senior Political Correspondent (via nightline)

ABC News has learned this new Pledge will include five broad categories, including jobs, government reform, spending, national security and health care. Under each category, there will be four or five specific proposals and actual bills, many of which have already been introduced.

A top House Republican told me “The Pledge” is “an important milestone showing our people we have learned our lesson and we are ready to govern.” In other words, it is a pledge not to go back to the big spending and high deficits of the last Republican Congress.

According to multiple sources, The Pledge includes the following proposals:

- Permanently extend the Bush tax cuts (all of them), or, as Republicans put it, a promise not to raise taxes on January 1, 2011 (the day the Bush tax cuts expire).

- Repeal and replace health care reform

- End the stimulus program

- A cap on discretionary spending

- Phase out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

- Permanently end the TARP program

- Keep Guantanamo open

- New sanctions on Iran and more money for missile defense

- Require every bill to be available online for three days before it is voted on.

- Require every bill to be certified as constitutional before it is voted on.

(via abcnewsradio)

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