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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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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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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In a twist on the old Watergate question, the Republican Party is struggling to answer: What did GOP leaders know of a congressman's salacious exchanges with underage male pages and when did they know it?
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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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In the wake of indictments and allegations of misconduct, the GOP's grip on the Governor's Mansion looks shaky
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Democrats expressed outrage today that Republican leaders had waited nearly a year to tell them about e-mails between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page.
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The White House tried to distance President Bush from any political backlash from the page sex scandal Thursday, saying House Republicans were dealing with the matter and do not need to be told what to do.
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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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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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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 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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Lawmakers charged with enforcing  ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives met on Thursday to  begin an investigation of a sex scandal that has ensnared top  Republicans and could harm their chances of keeping control of  Congress in the November 7 elections.
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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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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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There are signs that the furor over the Congressional page scandal is sapping the enthusiasm of religious conservatives.
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A sex scandal on Capitol Hill is gaining steam, exactly five weeks before Congressional elections, as a conservative Washington paper urged a top Republican to relinquish his leadership post.