Hastert Launches A Partisan Policy
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In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills
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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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They're big fish in the little pond of the U.S. Capitol. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are just bit players on the public stage of this week's Republican National Convention.
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Republicans on Wednesday assailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request for access to an Air Force transport plane as an extravagance, though former Speaker Dennis Hastert flew in a military jet as well.
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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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With their grip on power strengthened, congressional Republicans promised Wednesday to pass legislation that will change much about
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The House majority leader delivered on a promise yesterday.
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Former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) plans to resign before the end of the year, Republican sources said yesterday.
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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 incoming Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, is planning to expropriate the second-floor suite of offices now occupied by the current speaker, J. Dennis Hastert.
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Amid rumblings from conservatives that she is seeking special treatment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) will receive use of an Air Force jet larger than the one used by her predecessor, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, so she can fly nonstop to her home in San Francisco.
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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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Republican Fred Thompson assailed Democrats and emphasized conservative stances Saturday, testing out a potential campaign pitch a day after taking a formal step toward a likely presidential candidacy.
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Republicans have been able to slow and sometimes halt the agenda of Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats.
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Republicans will try to present a less sharply partisan face tonight with speeches by Laura Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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The top House Republican, under fire for his handling of a Capitol Hill sex scandal, gained support on Wednesday in his bid to survive the political firestorm over a former congressman's lewd messages to teenage boys, party aides said.