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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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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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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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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House Republicans are grappling with political fallout from a lurid scandal and the way leaders dealt with Mark Foley and the now-former congressmanÃ¢ÂÂs salacious electronic messages to teen-age congressional pages.
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A falling U.S. budget deficit  brought some solace on Friday to Republicans beset by a  Washington sex scandal, violence in Iraq and possible political  setbacks in the November congressional elections.
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Social conservatives want House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other GOP leaders to resign over the scandal.
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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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Analysis: Scandals like the one that took down the senator from Idaho have demoralized the Republican base ahead of the 2008 campaign
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Hollywood party girls don't have a monopoly on trouble in California. A disproportionate number of the state's congressional Republicans are facing ethics questions that threaten to sink their careers and their party's political fortunes too.
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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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Democrats are now taking potentially decisive leads in opinion polls ahead of mid-term elections in the United States as President George W. Bush's Republican party struggles to overcome a congressional sex scandal.
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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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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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The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, will meet reporters at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) as he faces calls for his resignation over the handling of a sex scandal involving a fellow Republican Congressman who resigned.
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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 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.