Dennis Hastert
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
I would again urge Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to join in this effort and not to boycott this Select Bipartisan Committee,
provides for common sense tax relief in the future. We have the largest surplus in history, which means the taxpayers are being overcharged.
I invite my Democratic colleagues to join in this effort, ... We all agree that in many areas, the initial relief response to Hurricane Katrina was unacceptable at the local, state and federal levels.
for the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
I hope everybody understands that you are innocent until you're proven guilty, ... And he will fight this, and we give him our utmost support.
This is no time to pick a leader who is weak on the war and wrong on taxes. George W. Bush is a strong leader with the right vision for America,
The American public, especially the people of the Gulf Coast region, deserve to know what happened in the early days of the storm. At every level of government - local, state and federal - the initial response was simply unacceptable, ... push for answers.
Number one, you have to clean up and neutralize the situation in New Orleans so that they can get in and do the work there. And of course also in Alabama and Mississippi,
The Kerry plan is simple: Add more money to our national deficit, spend more money here in Washington, raise taxes on job creation,
I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.
Republicans believe that the federal government plays a limited but very important federal role in education. We simply want to help schools get the money that they need to improve education without so many Washington strings attached,
Congress will not use Social Security as a pot of gold to fund foreign aid,
This Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis,