1995 – The Republican Party takes control of Congress for the first time in 40 years


The 104th Congress begins, becoming the first held entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era. The previous November, Newt Gingrich and his “Contract with America” gave the Republican Party the electoral boost it needed to win majority control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

Source: CBS , history.com

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge in the 1990s against then President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.