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...line to become Speaker rather than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who disagrees with Republicans on even more issues than Hoyer. In a meeting with a handful of lawmakers and the Australian Prime Minister, California Republican David Drier, one of the closest allies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, accidentally referred to "Speaker Pelosi," leading to chuckles from both Hastert and Pelosi...
...does show the advantage of being boring--nobody yells at him." BARNEY FRANK, Democratic Congressman of Massachusetts, on his Republican colleague Dennis Hastert, who last week became the longest-serving G.O.P. Speaker of the House...
...Jefferson's apartment and had a videotape of him allegedly accepting $100,000 in bribe money. But when federal agents, who had been trying to get documents from Jefferson for nine months, obtained a warrant and searched his Capitol Hill office, they found an unlikely adversary: House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The Illinois Republican argued that the search violated the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches and demanded that the FBI return the seized documents...
...Hastert grew even angrier when ABC News, quoting unnamed federal law-enforcement officials, reported that Hastert was being investigated in another corruption case, involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The Justice Department denied the story, but Hastert, suspicious of the report's timing, accused the FBI of trying to "intimidate...
...Hastert led congressional appeals to the White House, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller made clear that they would not comply with any presidential order to return the seized materials--and were willing to risk being fired for their defiance, says a law-enforcement source. So the President instead ordered the FBI to hand over the documents to the Solicitor General's office, which is not involved in the probe. The documents will be sealed for 45 days while Congress and the Administration seek agreement on what prosecutors may view...