DeLay Likens GOP Contract to Magna Carta
- By JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
(04-13) 16:11 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

To House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Republican Party's "Contract With America" ranks right up there with the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights among the "great documents of freedom."

So says DeLay's Internet Web site. It describes that 1994 campaign treatise, credited with helping the GOP end four decades of House rule by Democrats, "a written commitment that presented to the people an agenda for the House of Representatives."

"In exercising their freedom to govern themselves, the people could read The Contract with America and embrace the agenda in the document," according to DeLay's site which includes a tutorial on the Constitution. "The resulting vote re-established the people's control of Congress ...., " it says.