Tom Foley

I mean, it was like these districts had Democratic incumbents who had been there a long time.

Tom Foley, the Speaker of the House, who lost, I think maybe the only time or one of the very few times a Speaker has lost a midterm, his own seat, you know, uh, had a district in Eastern Washington, I believe, which was becoming quite conservative.

It's not Seattle, you know.

It's like...

In 1994, like, It was so crazy.

Tom Foley, the Speaker of the House, loses his seat in Washington, remember? Yeah, yeah.

Like, nobody could see him now.

Like, there was so much happening with such a broad collapse that you can't predict it.

Democratic Majority Leader Jim Wright called the speech disappointing.

Majority Whip Tom Foley criticized it for lacking specifics, but promised that the leadership will not try to block the president's programs in the House.

Other Democrats, though, sounded like that's exactly what they'd like to do.

District of Columbia Delegate Walter Fauntroy calling the new federalism the new shell game.

Well, when Ann Richards lost.

But remember, uh, who was the Speaker of the House, [chuckles] the Democrat Speaker of the House that lost up in Washington State? Tom, uh-

Foley

... boy.

Tom Foley.

There you go.

You're older than I am.