Dennis Hastert
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Dennis Hastert
John Dennis "Denny" Hastertis a former politician from Illinois, the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1999 to 2007, and an admitted serial child molester. He represented Illinois's 14th congressional district in the House for twenty years, 1987 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. In 2015, Hastert pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of structuring financial transactions to conceal payments to an individual whom he had sexually abused...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 January 1942
CityAurora, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.
You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.
What we try to do is to try to put patients first,
The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led to the birth of our great nation. It is an oath of our fidelity to our country, and I am disappointed that the court chose to rule against this American treasure,
We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,
Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,
We've got a solid balanced approach, ... No one has any idea what the cost implication would be if you went too far.
We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people,
unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.
When you really look in depth, the reason we're losing people offshore is the inequity of our tax code as compared to our competitors overseas,
What we wanted to do is get the commission report out as quickly as possible so if there are problems, we can solve those problems,
There are some people who would have it politically convenient to have a recession because that means they would have a political advantage. We are not going to let that happen, ... By moving that tax cut early and having it in time to kick this economy up and get it going, we are not going to let that happen.