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...added, "I cannot allow our adversaries to divide and distract our attention." Because of his tightfisted regime that rewarded loyalists and punished detractors, his departure is sure to set off not just a fight for his old job but also some ugly score settling. No wonder House Speaker Dennis Hastert canceled a trip to Asia he had planned for this week so that he could return to Washington, begin sifting through the fallout and start planning for leadership elections the week...
...Administration likes to stress that congressional leaders were briefed about the new program from the start. But some of them object that they were told about it under ground rules that made it impossible for them to mount any opposition. Daschle tells TIME that he, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt, then House minority leader, were briefed in early 2002 by Cheney. There was a second briefing in 2004. "A couple of us expressed our concerns," Daschle says. "But the information we were given was more technical and less substantive. We were told we were being informed...
...vice-presidential term of Al Gore ’69 would have ended on January 20 as well, so the next in line for the White House, under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, was the speaker of the House: J. Dennis Hastert...
...requires anyone who has a federal appointment to resign, so it’s assumed that Hastert would not give up his seat in Congress and his speakership to be a temporary president until, you know, the real president took office,” Posner told Rose, according to a transcript of the show...
...next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, who at the time was the 98-year-old J. Strom Thurmond. He, presumably, would have faced the same dilemma as Hastert...