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...want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda." DENNIS HASTERT, Speaker of the House, responding to Senator McCain's comment that there had been little U.S. sacrifice for the war in Iraq; McCain, a former POW, said he was referring to the fact that civilians have not been asked to sacrifice...
...Congress this year. Republican leaders admit in private that they don't have anything like the two-thirds vote needed in either chamber to send it along to the states. The Bush announcement took them almost completely by surprise. G.O.P congressional sources tell TIME that House Speaker Dennis Hastert first heard about it when the White House phoned his office just 15 minutes before the President appeared on TV. Hastert, who opposes gay marriage but suspects that the fight over a constitutional ban could be a quagmire for Republicans, refused afterward to speak publicly to reporters...
...Hastert's silence was better than the explicitly cool reception that Bush's announcement got from other leading Republicans on Capitol Hill. Senate majority leader Bill Frist was highly skeptical of its chances for passage. So was House majority leader Tom DeLay. David Dreier, the powerful chairman of the House Rules Committee, flatly opposes amending the Constitution, arguing that the question of gay marriage instead "should go through the courts...
...situation. First came the observation by Bush's top economist Gregory Mankiw that outsourcing jobs overseas is "probably a plus for the economy in the long run." That may be true in theory, but the statement was so impolitic that even such staunch Bush supporters as House Speaker Dennis Hastert were furious. "An economy suffers when jobs disappear," Hastert said. And so do politicians...
...Hastert, who hasn't taken a position on Rohrabacher's bill, won't do that. "Promising people a vote on other legislation is not unusual," his spokesman, John Feehery, insists. The measure faces uphill battles in the House and Senate. And "we'll fight it," says Pollack...