Consequential GOP class of 1994 all but disappears

Consequential GOP class of 1994 all but disappears-thehill: Twenty-five years ago Friday, 367 Republicans running for Congress lined up on the Capitol steps on a clear September day weeks before the midterm elections to sign the Contract with America. Seventy-three were sworn in a few months later as part of the first Republican House majority in 40 years, and one of the most consequential groups of newcomers in modern political history. Only three of those Republicans remain in Congress.