Republican Leaders Escape Sanctions in the Foley Case
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Although a Congressional ethics panel said GOP lawmakers were negligent in monitoring former Rep. Mark Foley, they found that no rules were broken
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The White House and GOP leaders are standing together in supporting embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire over the handling of the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. A conservative newspaper has called on Hastert, R-Illinois, to step down, but he says that won't be happening.
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Republicans' hold on U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's seat has gone from safe to shaky overnight.
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After hours of spirited debate, House Republicans passed a rule change yesterday that would allow Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) to retain his leadership post if he is indicted by a Texas grand jury.
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House leaders Ã¢ÂÂ namely Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Ã¢ÂÂ did not violate the rules of the House earlier this year in the handling of reports that ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., had sent suggestive e-mails to a former page, according to the ethics committee, which concluded a nine-week investigation Friday.
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House of Representatives Republican leaders faced growing pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down amid Republican fears about the potential fallout in November's fight for control of Congress.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert's political support showed signs of cracking on Wednesday as Republicans fled an election-year scandal spawned by steamy computer messages from former Rep. Mark Foley to teenage male pages.
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A congressional ethics committee approved about 50 subpoenas on Thursday as it launched a probe into disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with teenage assistants in a sex scandal enveloping Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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House Republicans are considering a change in party rules so that Tom DeLay would not have to step down as majority leader should he be indicted in a Texas investigation.
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House of Representatives Republican  leaders faced growing pressure over a congressional sex scandal  on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step  down amid Republican fears about the potential fallout in  November's fight for control of Congress.
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Top Republicans were negligent in  failing to protect young interns from a lawmaker who resigned  in an Internet sex scandal shortly before the November 7  elections, a congressional ethics panel concluded on Friday.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Monday that no Republican leaders saw lurid Internet exchanges from former Rep. Mark Foley to pages and that he would have demanded the Florida Republican's expulsion if he had known about them.
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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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Six-term Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., notified House leaders Friday that he is resigning from the House Ã¢ÂÂ a sudden and unexpected reaction to questions of impropriety that arose just days before. (read Foley's official statement)
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An increasing number of conservative advocates are laying the blame for the intensifying Foley scandal at the feet of the House speaker.
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This time there were no tortured explanations, no heels dug in, no long, slow drip of revelation or fight for redemption. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., just up and quit after his e-mails expressing undue interest in a 16-year-old male page were exposed to the nation. Less than six weeks from a tough election for Republicans who control an already ethically tainted Congress, the more common stick-it-out approach to scandal was cast aside.
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Emboldened by their election successes, House Republicans changed their rules yesterday to allow majority leader Tom