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
We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.
Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.
We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
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.
Taxpayers need relief, ... Consumer confidence is down, energy prices are up, and economic growth is stagnant. The economy needs a boost, and this tax relief will provide that boost.
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.