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...They aren't so assured now. Returning from congressional recesses, Republicans are admitting that they haven?t yet closed the deal, and now say that the "educating the public" on the issue might take months. "We have to convince the American people there's a problem," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said this week...
...know name" or "not sure." For those who did know him, DeLay was viewed positively by 17%, 21% neutral and 20% negative. DeLay, while holding major sway in the Republican Party, remains at most the fourth most important Republican in Washington after President Bush, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Leader Bill Frist. Hastert, of course, isn't a household name either; in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, 25% had never heard of him and 31% had no opinion...
...DENNIS HASTERT, House Speaker, warning against rushing to pass the President's proposal to overhaul Social Security and instead advocating a public-education campaign that could take as long as two years...
Democrats remember the week before Bush was sworn in--the crisp but friendly meetings with lawmakers from both parties, the kind for which Bush had been famous when he was Governor of Texas. Republican Senate leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Dennis Hastert were quickly treated to a heavy courtship, but Democrats were also promised a place in the partnership. Bush assured minority leader Dick Gephardt, "I'll tell you what I think, and I hope you'll do the same with me." Gephardt thought Bush would be good to his word and couldn't help liking...
...becoming increasingly apparent that President Bush will let the ban on those very weapons expire one month from today. Because, though this president has said that he would sign a renewal should the bill reach his desk, he has enlisted his congressional posse—House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.—to make sure the bill never does. In turn, these men, responsible for bringing the bill to a vote, say they will do so only if the President asks them...