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Details of Newt Gingrich’s updated Contract with America have begun to emerge, with the former House Speaker telling The Daily Caller that the contract will rest on four “pillars”: new legislation, executive orders to be signed immediately upon taking office, a revised training program for presidential appointees and government modernization.

Gingrich plans to outline the new contract at a speech Thursday in Iowa, although he promised the final product will at least match the 700-page contract of 1994, and take at least a year to complete.

Gingrich said he’s not releasing the full plan for two reasons â€" first, he recognizes that only the party’s nominee could negotiate a full contract with Republican leaders in ! the House and Senate, and second, some of the ideas “are so ! new and so different we have not yet developed the ideas on how to do it.”

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