House Republicans grapple with sex scandal
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House of Representatives Republican leaders, already facing a tough election fight to keep control of the U.S. Congress, struggled on Monday to contain a mushrooming sex scandal just five weeks before the November 7 vote.
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The House ethics committee reported Friday that Republican lawmakers and aides failed to protect young male pages from former Rep. Mark Foley's improper advances, concluding an investigation into a scandal that convulsed Congress and contributed to the GOP defeat in last month's elections.
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Republican U.S. House leaders faced mounting pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down for his handling of sexual messages sent to teen-age boys by Rep. Mark Foley.
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert faced intensifying questions about the RepublicansÂ response to Representative Mark FoleyÂs messages to a page.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats questioned whether the House's GOP leadership had squelched concerns about Foley, a Republican who now has resigned.
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President George W. Bush's campaign  strategy of painting Democrats as soft on terrorism has been  stalled by a congressional sex scandal, jeopardizing Republican  hopes of holding the House of Representatives, analysts say.
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Sex could be the undoing of a family values Republican.
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In the wake of indictments and allegations of misconduct, the GOP's grip on the Governor's Mansion looks shaky
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Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert is getting backup from President Bush and other Republican luminaries, while one of the party's Senate candidates calls for him to resign over the congressional page cybersex scandal.
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With just five weeks to go before Election Day, the nationÃ¢ÂÂs political scene Ã¢ÂÂ and most especially the closely contested partisan battle for control of the House Ã¢ÂÂ has been rocked by the scandal surrounding Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley, who abruptly resigned Friday after reports emerged that he allegedly sent sexually explicit e-mail and instant messages to underage male congressional pages.
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A scandal over a U.S. Republican congressman sending sexually explicit e-mails to underage boys ratcheted up on Sunday with the FBI and a congressional ethics committee looking into the accusations.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House, battling calls for his resignation over a Capitol Hill sex scandal, called a news conference on Thursday to again say he will not step down, senior party aides said.
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A committee responsible for enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday began investigating a sex scandal that has enveloped Republicans struggling to keep control of Congress in the November 7 election.
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Lawmakers charged with enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives met on Thursday to begin an investigation of a sex scandal that has ensnared top Republicans and could harm their chances of keeping control of Congress in the November 7 elections.
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The FBI is assessing whether former Rep. Mark Foley broke any laws when he sent sexually explicit e-mails to a male teen-age congressional page and leaders of both parties demanded full-scale investigations into another untimely scandal for the Republicans.
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The final two years of President Bush's term could be bleak for Republicans if the congressional-page scandal roiling Washington ends up costing them control of the House or Senate or even both.