Republican Congressional majority accomplishments 1995-2007?

The only clear success was the welfare reform of the mid-late 1990s
as far as I can see.

Can anyone else here think of anything really important?

The most important prospect for me in 1995 was a significant,
true reduction in the size and spending of the Federal Government
colossus. Here the Joe Scarborough small-government Republicans
were swept under the table, and the party as a whole emerged as
money-guzzlers par excellence. The Republican majority was abetted
by the complete indifference of the Bush administration in this area,
with the distractions of foreign policy being no excuse at all.

It was a record of squandered opportunity.

Tax cuts.

I will go along with this to some extent.

I think it was a majority-preceding Republican President, Reagan,
who should receive the most credit for the tax-cut phase change.

The Republican 1995-2009 majority, however, failed completely to
come up with any tax reform.

Last session the Congress put only 11 bills into law and not one of them was a major turn in the direction from years ago.

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The fewer bills the better. The less chance there will be that they can screw things up.

From about 1994-2000, they did a good job of holding spending growth below economic growth, which resulted in surpluses.

Then when Bush got elected, they started concentrating more on trying to keep power than actually accomplish anything.

By that point the conservatives were gone.

Yeah. They self term-limited in 2000. Sigh.

Their biggest accomplishment was showing just how corrupt their party was.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

I think you are right here. I really hold it against Bush
for coming up with that "compassionate Clonservative"
mantra, which was just an excuse to spend money on
drop-in-thebucket nothing programs such as No Child
Left Behind (total outlays an insignificant $80 or so per
child, and why couldn't the states have kept and spent
that money themselves).

I think after thier initial Contract with America push the
Republicans just ran out of reforming zeal, and by 2001
at the latest had become spending hogs as bad as the
Democrats ever were.