Pressure builds on Republicans in sex scandal
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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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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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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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U.S. representatives bring the heat, while several people involved in HP scandal plead the Fifth.
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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 congressional ethics committee approved about 50 subpoenas on Thursday as it launched a probe into 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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An inquiry into a sex scandal inolving a former Republican lawmaker begins at the US Congress.
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Opposition politicians are increasing the pressure on David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, over the fallout from his affair with married publisher Kimberly Quinn.
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The top House Republican, under fire for his handling of a Capitol Hill sex scandal, gained support on Wednesday but new questions arose about when he was told of a former congressman's troubling behavior toward teenage boys.
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Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.
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A US House of Representatives panel announced a probe into the handling of a widening congressional sex scandal that has rocked the majority Republican party.
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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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Pressure mounts on a US Republican senator to resign over his arrest in a men's toilet for disorderly conduct.
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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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House 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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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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A US House of Representatives ethics panel launched an investigation into a sex scandal that rocked President George W. Bush's Republican Party a month before legislative elections.