Harold Ford, Jr.: Newt Gingrich stopped sending freshman Congressmen to learn about government.. [View All]

[CTyankee]

Ford said that when he came to Congress it was the practice to send freshmen to the Kennedy School at Harvard to get some basics on the political process in this country. Newt Gingrich stopped that practice. He thought Harvard was not the place for these new lawmakers to learn how the government works.

This fact was brought out after Barnicle suggested that all new Congresspersons should be sent to a class in U.S. government and history.

Well, now we see the results of THAT folly...