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,
We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.
This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,
As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million,
It is something that will help the economy.
I think Tom Reynolds may have been talking about what his feelings are, ... Social Security is something very important. It's something we've talked about doing, and when we decide to move forward we'll let the press know.
I think Tom Reynolds may have been talking about what his feelings are,
I think there are some areas we can work together on to try to find some compromises,
Our hearts and prayers go out to him,
We're cautiously optimistic, ... We're doing as well as we can expect, it's going to be a long night and we have to see what happens in California.
We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done,
We must not allow the possibility of compromising our national security due to lack of review or oversight by the federal government.
Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman,
Our vote count is coming along quite well,