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| | Dennis Hastert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hastert was nominated by a Republican convention to succeed him. | | | John Dennis Hastert, born January 2, 1942, is an American politician, and has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 1999 (he will surpass Joseph Gurney Cannon as the longest-serving Republican Speaker on June 1, 2006). | | | Hastert initially ran a sluggish campaign, but eventually the district's strong Republican lean (the 14th has been held by Republicans for all but four years since its formation in 1903) prevailed, allowing Hastert to win with 52 percent of the vote. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hastert
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| | USATODAY.com - The speaker turns up the volume |
| | WASHINGTON — In late November 2000, two aides briefed House Speaker Dennis Hastert on a mind-boggling scenario: If George W. Bush lost his Supreme Court case, the Florida recount probably would extend well beyond the Jan. 20 inauguration date, leaving the nation temporarily without a leader. | | | The GOP has held only slim majorities in the House throughout Hastert's tenure, and there are plenty of possibilities for defections in a caucus that runs the ideological gamut from Northeastern Republicans who advocate abortion rights to Southwesterners so fiscally conservative they'd like to dismantle Medicare. | | | House Speaker Dennis Hastert's memoir is one of two books penned by senior members of Congress to hit stores. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-02-hastert-book_x.htm
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| | Speaker Largely Silent Amid Scandal |
| | With his affable demeanor and his open-door policy, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert remains unchallenged in the most powerful post in Congress, even as a growing corruption scandal roils the Republican leadership and more Congress-watchers say the speaker bears some responsibility for the troubles that have developed on his watch. | | | Although Hastert's job appears safe for now, there are rumblings among some lawmakers and aides that he waited too long to act -- and that his prior conduct has eluded close inspection, even when the speaker himself rubbed elbows with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his clients. | | | That was when Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-Tex.) approached Hastert aides with a proposal pregnant with possible political consequences: A Democratic prosecutor in Texas, Ronnie Earle, was closing in on DeLay, and the majority leader wanted to change Republican rules to allow a leader indicted by a state grand jury to retain his post. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600997.html
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| | Hastert Launches a Partisan Policy (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The long-debated intelligence bill would now be law, they say, if Hastert and his lieutenants had been humble enough to let a high-profile measure pass with most votes coming from the minority party. | | | Hastert (R-Ill.) now says such bills will reach the House floor, after negotiations with the Senate, only if "the majority of the majority" supports them. | | | In a little-noticed speech in the Capitol a year ago, Hastert said one of his principles as speaker is "to please the majority of the majority." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15423-2004Nov26.html
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| | Speaker of the House |
| | Speaker Dennis Hastert welcomes Mikheil Saakashvili, the newly elected President of Georgia, to the U.S. Capitol. | | | Speaker Hastert with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Finance Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. John Breaux (D-LA) urging both bodies of Congress to vote for the prescription drug benefit that can save seniors up to 40% off the cost of prescription drugs. | | | Speaker Hastert gives the Oath of Office to Vice President Richard B. Cheney during the 55th Presidential Inauguration. |
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http://speakernews.house.gov/photogallery.asp
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| | Hastert takes a broom to ethics panel |
| | Hastert’s decision to leave Biggert in place indicates that the panel’s pending investigations will continue. | | | Explaining the decision to allow Biggert to remain despite already having served two terms, Hastert said: “Judy Biggert was named to be the head of the McDermott investigation, so I didn’t think it was right to remove her. | | | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) assailed Hastert in a statement, saying: “By ousting Mr. |
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http://hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020305/ethics.html
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| | Speaker Desig'maybe' Dennis Hastert |
| | After all, except for the most erudite political observers, Hastert is a nonentity in Congress and perhaps the only man in the House that might have no sordid skeletons in his closet. | | | Michel) that voted to override President Clinton's veto on partial birth (remember when they were referred to as late term) abortion. | | | He couldn't have -- after all 117,000 Americans voted for him in 1998. |
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http://www.americanpolitics.com/122498MacArthur.html
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| | Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert |
| | Mexican President Vincente Fox speaks to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert while Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle listens in before a breakfast honoring Fox in the Capitol. | | | Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Speaker fof the House Dennis Hastert meet alone to discuss the planning of the upcoming anti-terrorist bill. | | | Mexican President Vincente Fox speaks to Congressional Leaders at a Breakfast in his honor in the US Capitol. |
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http://www.pfpix.com/hastertweb1
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| | Rep. Dennis Hastert Blog |
| | Speaker Hastert on the Resignation of Porter Goss | | | (Washington, D.C.) Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) issued the following statement today regarding the recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) search: "It is the duty of the Justice Department to root out and prosecute corruption wherever it is found, including in the U.S. House of Representatives. | | | Speaker Hastert: House Republicans Support Respect for Fallen Heroes Act |
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http://www.newsbull.com/m.asp?id=491
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| | Speaker sharpens his partisan barbs=The Hill.com= |
| | This is Hastert’s third major dust-up this year in the national media. | | | Michele Swers, a professor of government at Georgetown University, said, “The House has taken on a role as water carrier for this administration, then letting the Senate take the heat beyond that. | | | In 2000, Hastert remained largely invisible as the Bush campaign distanced itself from congressional Republicans. |
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http://www.hillnews.com/news/092104/hastert.aspx
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| | Dennis Hastert - dKosopedia |
| | Edmonds "reported hearing Turkish wiretap targets boast that they had a covert relationship with a very senior Republican indeed-Dennis Hastert, Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House since 1999," Rose writes. | | | "For many years, attempts had been made to get the House to pass a genocide resolution, but they never got anywhere until August 2000, when Hastert, as Speaker, announced that he would give it his backing and see that it received a full House vote," Rose notes. | | | HASTERT, John Dennis from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Dennis_Hastert
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| | Denny Hastert's Late Payment |
| | Hastert's office says his staffers uncovered the oversight. | | | But the June 3, 2003, lunchtime gathering was special: The guest of honor was House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), and the event was a relatively intimate gathering dominated by lobbyists from Greenberg Traurig, the law and lobbying firm where Abramoff then worked. | | | Nobody paid for the lunch -- or reported it in disclosure documents as an in-kind contribution -- as federal election law requires, BusinessWeek Online has learned. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2005/nf20050415_2315.htm
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| | Dennis hastert |
| | DENNIS HASTERT IS RETARDED The Speaker of the House of Representatives has long been regarded as an idiot, and not a particularly useful one at that. | | | It appears the Speaker of the House, who thinks New Orleans should be bulldozed, couldn't be bothered to show up for a vote on an emergency aid package: After Hastert's insensitive comments about bulldozing NO, he failed to show up to vote on the $10.5B aid package [...] | | | DENNIS HASTERT IS RETARDED The Speaker of the Ho... |
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http://www.aspma.com/term/dennis-hastert.html
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| | Dennis Hastert News |
| | U.S. Democrat and Republican leaders expressed outrage over a weekend FBI raid on the office of a U.S. House of Representatives member from Louisiana. | | | Filed under: General - Eideard @ 11:30 am Think the leaders of Congress are in touch with working families? | | | WASHINGTON Even with Mexico far from their state's border, Illinois' senators have a lot to say about how the United States should address the issue of illegal immigrants from the south. |
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http://www.topix.net/us-house/dennis-hastert
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| | Why Did John Kerry Lie About Dennis Hastert? |
| | The last time I checked Hastert was the third ranking government official in the country behind only the President and the Vice-President. | | | This time Kerry’s target for defamation was Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. | | | However, since I am willing to own up to my mistake, Senator Kerry ought to own up to his and apologize to Hastert. |
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4754.html
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| | Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, 14th District of Illinois |
| | Hastert Encourages Seniors to Enroll in Medicare Part-D | | | CARPENTERSVILLE — Congressman J. Dennis Hastert and State Representative Ruth Munson joined members of the Carpentersville Youth Development Collaborative Friday in announcing a multi-faceted approach to providing youth services and programming — and appealed for communitywide support of the effort. | | | More than 30 million American seniors are now saving on their medication costs after enrolling for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit – and Congressman Hastert wants to ensure you have the information you need to join them. |
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http://www.house.gov/hastert
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| | CNN.com - Hastert's al Qaeda comment draws fire - Sep 19, 2004 |
| | It was the second time this month that Hastert's comments have provoked a public row. | | | Hastert, who as speaker heads the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, showed no sign of backing off his comments. | | | At a campaign rally Saturday in his Illinois district with Vice President Dick Cheney, Hastert said al Qaeda "would like to influence this election" with an attack similar to the train bombings in Madrid days before the Spanish national election in March. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/19/hastert.remark
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| | Dennis Hastert on dope. By Jack Shafer |
| | Whatever the reason behind his eruption, Hastert has answered the question of who is screwy enough to run on this year's LaRouche ticket. | | | David Jordan, the former U.S. ambassador to Peru, testified that Soros has backed drug legalization initiatives and owns a piece of a bank in Colombia. | | | Hastert used the Fox appearance to blurt out a bizarre and baseless accusation about billionaire George Soros, a Democratic Party financier and donor to anti-Bush 527s. |
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http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2106077&
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| | Rosa Parks Portal |
| | Excellent site, includes a great amount of video of Senators Abraham, Daschle and Speaker Dennis Hastert, President Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Mrs. | | | CNN Rosa Parks honored with Congressional Gold Medal. | | | It's sites like this that show the potential of the Internet. |
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http://www.e-portals.org/Parks
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| | Dennis Hastert |
| | (Hastert had been a low-profile member of Congress, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | (Hastert is a quiet tactician; the contast of his predecessor may have exaggerated Hastert's preferred working style. | | | John Dennis Hastert (born January 2 1942), EHandler: no quick summary. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/de/dennis_hastert.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: Dennis Hastert |
| | I normally agree with Dennis Hastert and Newt Gingrich but I can’t when they’re raising constitutional issues on the raid of William Jefferson’s... | | | I normally agree with Dennis Hastert and Newt Gingrich but I can’t when they’re raising constitutional issues on the raid... | | | Other than being one of many bad Steven Segal movies it is also what House Speaker Dennis Hastert thinks of members of Congress. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/Dennis+Hastert
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Hastert: New Orleans "could be bulldozed" |
| | Hastert, in a transcript supplied by the suburban Chicago newspaper, said there was no question that New Orleans residents would rebuild their city, but noted that federal insurance and other federal aid were involved. | | | Hastert later issued a statement saying he was not "advocating that the city be abandoned or relocated." | | | Two Louisiana Democrats were quick to disagree yesterday. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002466132_kathast02.html
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| | Dennis Hastert Challenges John Kerry's 'Coward' Comments |
| | A spokeswoman for Kerry said the senator was reacting to Hastert's use of the word "cower" and said that the speaker and other Republican Party leaders "were all calling (Murtha) a coward." | | | Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president in 2004 who was savaged by a conservative political group that questioned his Vietnam War service, said the Republican attack machine had set its sights on Murtha, and noted: "Dennis Hastert - the Speaker of the House who never served - accused Jack Murtha of being a coward." | | | But Hastert's initial response to Murtha's withdrawal announcement accused him and the Democratic Party of adopting a policy of "cut and run." |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/28/111902.shtml
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| | Dennis Hastert, liar or fool? By Jack Shafer |
| | Hastert has purposely painted an ambiguous backdrop against which he can shrewdly slander his political foe Soros. | | | Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert stuck his foot in it while appearing on Chris Wallace's Fox News Sunday (Aug. 29), speculating that Democratic Party financier and anti-Bush 527 donor George Soros may be the recipient of illicit drug money. | | | Hastert states in a letter to Soros that he's being misread, maintaining that when he told Wallace, "You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2106176
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| | CJR Daily: Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, Bill Schneider - Three Peas in a Pod? |
| | At a campaign rally on Saturday with Vice President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert declared that al Qaeda "would like to influence this election" with an attack similar to the Madrid bombings that occurred days before the Spanish national election last March. | | | To be sure, in the latter part of his comments, Schneider seemed to realize this, and tacked abruptly to the left, claiming that Hastert was merely trying to argue that, in the event of a terror attack before the election, voters would rally around the president. | | | But his view is so politically charged, and so nakedly partisan, that you wouldn't expect it to be endorsed by a supposedly neutral political analyst on a major cable news show. |
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http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000928.asp
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| | New York Daily News - Breaking News - Hastert: Rebuilding city under sea level makes no sense |
| | Hastert, in a transcript supplied by the newspaper, said there was no question that the people of New Orleans would rebuild their city, but noted that federal insurance and other federal aid was involved. | | | Hastert's press secretary, Ron Bonjean, said Hastert was not suggesting New Orleans should be abandoned or relocated. | | | Hastert announced Thursday that the House, currently at the end of its summer break, would return for an emergency session Friday to approve some $10 billion in federal aid for hurricane victims. |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/342517p-292444c.html
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| | SYSTEM OF A DOWN ASK HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT TO ‘DO THE RIGHT THING’ IN SUPPORT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ... |
| | Despite his previous public support for the measure in 2000, Speaker Hastert has twice prevented the Armenian Genocide legislation from coming to a full vote in the House. | | | Following his withdrawal of this measure, he issued a statement affirming his personal support for the Armenian Genocide Resolution, stressing that the Resolution enjoyed the support of a bi-partisan Congressional majority, and pledging to bring this legislation back to the House floor. | | | On September 15, the House International Relations Committee overwhelmingly approved legislation recognizing the Armenian Genocide, despite objections from both Turkey and the Bush Administration. |
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http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=817
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| | Denny Hastert's wild Washington - Salon |
| | This weekend the National Republican Congressional Committee is selling Super Bowl tickets to lobbyists so they can watch the game and hobnob with Hastert at the same time. | | | Thanks to Denny Hastert and his pals in the House Republican leadership, lobbyists will now be able to pick up the tab for House members whenever the lawmakers attend charitable events, including golf outings and those all-important policy retreats held at lavish resorts. | | | And the lobbyists are just as busy at the state level. |
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/huffington/2003/01/23/lobbyists/index.html
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| | Reason: Drug Connections: Dennis Hastert steals a move from John Kerry |
| | Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason and the author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Putnam). | | | In other words, politicians who support the war on drugs serve the interests of the thugs who tend to take over a business when it's banned. | | | When House Speaker Dennis Hastert insinuated that billionaire Bush basher George Soros is on the payroll of drug traffickers, Democrats cried foul. |
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http://www.reason.com/sullum/100104.shtml
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| | Dennis Hastert: Campaign Finance/Money - Contributions - Congressman 2006 |
| | Dennis Hastert is a top House recipient from the following industries for the 2005-2006 election cycle: | | | HOW TO READ THIS CHART: Most members of Congress get the bulk of their campaign contributions from two main sources: the industries that make up the economic base of their home district and the Washington-based interest groups that pay more attention to the member's committee assignments in Congress. | | | Dennis Hastert: Campaign Finance/Money - Contributions - Congressman 2006 |
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http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00004781&cycle=2004
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| | New York Daily News - Politics - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: GOP has dol-fun with Dems |
| | On "Fox News Sunday," the Illinois Republican insinuated that billionaire financier George Soros, who's funding an independent media campaign to dislodge President Bush, is getting his big bucks from shady sources. | | | Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - having already enraged some New Yorkers with his remarks about local office-holders' "unseemly scramble" for federal money after 9/11 - yesterday opened a second front. | | | Meanwhile, at a fabulously elaborate General Motors-hosted brunch in Hastert's honor at Tavern on the Green, the Speaker tried to soothe frayed New York nerve-endings. |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/227158p-195011c.html
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| | Meet President Dennis Hastert |
| | Thanks to the Constitution, our nation will be in good hands. | | | This website is not associated with nor endorsed by US Representative J. Dennis Hastert. | | | Click here to find out more about (future) President Hastert |
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http://www.hereinreality.com/hastert.html
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| | BREITBART.COM - Hastert Wants 'Christmas,' Tree Together |
| | Hastert, R-Ill., in a letter to the Architect of the Capitol, recommended that the annual Capitol Holiday Tree, as it has been called the past several years, be renamed the Capitol Christmas Tree. | | | Spokesman Ron Bonjean said the reasons were unclear. | | | "I strongly urge that we return to this tradition and join the White House, countless other public institutions and millions of American families in celebrating the holiday season with a Christmas tree," Hastert wrote to Architect Alan Hantman. |
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/D8E6H4V82.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Speaker Hastert 'troubled' by Berger probe |
| | House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., reacted today to news of the probe of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, saying he is "profoundly troubled" by allegations the former Clinton aide stole classified terrorism documents from a secure reading room in preparation for the 9-11 Commission hearings. | | | Berger to remove them without authorization from a secure reading room for classified documents?" Hastert asked in a statement. |
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39540
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Hastert Statement on Berger Allegations" |
| | Contact: John Feehery or Pete Jeffries, 202-225-2800, both of the Office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert | | | WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) released the following statement regarding allegations that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger removed highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the 9/11 Commission hearings: | | | And so does the U.S. House of Representatives." |
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=134-07202004
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| | WorldNetDaily: Why Democrats are tagged as the party without values |
| | Napolitano, I hope that this short list answers your question about how it is that your party has gotten tagged as "the party without values." Indeed, the real question, as this observer sees it, is how has this party retained so many people who have traditional American values? | | | Dennis Prager, one of America's most respected and popular nationally syndicated radio talk-show hosts, is the author of several books and a frequent guest on TV shows such as "Larry King Live," "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity & Colmes." | | | Sources: 'Iran believes Israel to strike in year' |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41362
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| | NPR : Profile: House Speaker Dennis Hastert |
| | He speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne, and explains how likeable and open he found the speaker despite the wide differences in their political ideologies. | | | Morning Edition, October 2, 2003 · Novelist Jonathan Franzen has written a profile of House Speaker Dennis Hastert in the New Yorker. |
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1452723
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