WHEATON, Ill. (AP) -- One of the nation's training grounds for future evangelical leaders, Wheaton College, is naming a new public policy center after former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an alumnus. The J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy will open in December.
WASHINGTON, July 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made the following remarks after the House Republican Conference this morning: We had a good conference this morning. We are focused on creating jobs and making the American people more secure. We are especially focused on improving competitiveness in this country.
Illinois Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, whose tenure as the longest- serving Republican House speaker ended earlier this year, yesterday said he will not seek a 12th term in office in 2008. I am immensely proud of all my accomplishments as a congressman and as speaker - but I did not do this alone," Mr. Hastert, 65, told supporters on the steps of the Kendall County Courthouse in his home district.
INDIANAPOLIS ? The Democrats who are now relegated to minority party status in the Indiana House of Representatives made a curious decision last week. Normally, when a political party experiences a sudden drop in popularity, it dumps its leadership and starts afresh. You saw this on the national level in 2006, when defeated House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., resigned after his party lost its majority.
It has been a great pleasure forging a close friendship and working relationship with Denny Hastert. He is a good and decent man, and he was a strong and effective Speaker. After teaching government and history at Yorkville High School in Illinois, Denny began making history serving in the Illinois House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
Kirk Fordham, then Mr. [Mark Foley]'s chief of staff and later with the head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep, Thomas M. Reynolds, says he was told by the clerk of the House in 2003 about complaints by pages about Rep. Foley's behavior-apparently a drunken effort to enter the page dormitory after curfew. Fordham says he told [Dennis Hastert]'s Chief of Staff, Scott Palmer, about the complaints; Palmer denies that took place. In the fall of 2005, Louisiana Rep. [Alexander Reynolds] was asked by parents of another page to get Rep. Foley to stop contacting their son. Alexander's office informed Rep. Hastert's office, and Hastert's counsel and deputy chief of staff, who was in charge of Hastert's political operation, were informed. The clerk of the House and Rep. John...
Hastert to retire after this term WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Hastert, of Illinois, who served as speaker of the House longer than any Republican in history, intends to retire next year at the end of his current term, party officials said Tuesday.
Former Speaker Hastert to step down after term WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, who served as speaker of the House longer than any Republican in history, intends to retire next year at the end of his current term, party officials said Tuesday.
Truth is stranger than fiction. When Nancy Pelosi, an earmark- heavy San Francisco Democrat, started calling House Speaker Dennis Hastert a person who "cares more about partisan advantage than our children" just hours after Rep. Mark Foley essentially was "fired" by Mr. Hastert for lewd instant e-mails to a male page, one has to ask: Just what is really going on? In the final days of this congressional election, facts are emerging that should raise more eyebrows. Remember the "roar-back," the 18th-century practice of a last-minute, false report intended to turn down voter loyalty? The practice appears to have new adherents.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who usually operates discreetly below the radar, set off a firestorm inside Washington last week with one telephone call. Hastert called Treasury Secretary John Snow on behalf of a constituent's loan request. The applicant was no struggling small businessman, and the amount was not trifling. The speaker was pushing a $1.6 billion loan guarantee for United Airlines, the nation's second-largest air carrier. IT WAS ASSUMED Hastert's clout would carry the day for United. Instead, the Treasury cast the deciding vote June 17 to deny the federal bailout. But the issue is far from settled. After a second intervention by Hastert, the Treasury issued a statement inviting a new United proposal - presumably including new capital to be poured into the bankrupt airl...
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