Pressure builds on Republicans in sex scandal
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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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Democrats used the Foley scandal to turn up the heat on Republicans on Saturday, a month before elections to the House and Senate. They devoted their weekly radio address to accusing House Republican leaders of ignoring then-Rep. Mark Foley's "obvious predatory signals ... to protect their political power." Inquiries have begun and Speaker Dennis Hastert says he did "nothing wrong."
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Faced with fending off the backlash from the Mark Foley scandal, House Republicans took the offensive Friday, asking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other rivals to testify about whether they engaged in partisan trickery by releasing Foley's messages weeks before the midterm elections.
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Democratic candidates seized on a disgraced congressman's explicit messages with underage boys &#151; and House Republican leaders' handling of the situation &#151; to argue that voters should toss the GOP from power.
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A half dozen federal investigations into the activities of Republican lawmakers are raising new worries for GOP leaders who hope to regain the House majority they lost last fall.
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House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages. The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley.
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Senator Larry E. Craig will resign under pressure in the aftermath of an undercover sex sting, according to Republican Party officials.
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Opposition Democrats are reaping a surge in popularity ahead of key US elections next month on the back of a congressional sex scandal that has left Republican leaders realing, according to polls.
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A Washington sex scandal has some in President George W. Bush's Republican party worried that traditional supporters will be so put off as to stay home on election day a month away.
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Republican House of Representatives leaders struggled to contain a mushrooming sex scandal on Monday just five weeks before a close November 7 election to decide control of the U.S. Congress.
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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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As controversy grew last spring amid a corruption investigation in former Gov. John G. Rowland's administration, many Republicans privately braced for political repercussions on Election Day.
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More Democrats went on the attack Friday with campaign ads linking Republican candidates to the Mark Foley House page scandal while GOP candidates moved to distance themselves from embattled Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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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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A senior Capitol Hill aide resigned his post as a widening sex scandal pummelled President George W. Bush's Republican party one month before national congressional elections.
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Republican U.S. House leaders faced growing 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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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.