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...resignation bug has also spread to the House, where three senior Republicans--former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, former Republican Conference chairwoman Deb Pryce and seven-term veteran Ray LaHood of Illinois--are among the 18 who have had enough. One more big Republican retirement (or scandal), and Democrats may start thinking that Christmas has come early...
...Schwarzenegger has managed to promote his idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating a hydrogen-fueled Hummer—a car that gets a whopping 10-15 miles per gallon—while crisscrossing the country in his private jet. Last year, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (D-Il.) gave a speech in Washington D.C. emphasizing the need to drive more fuel-efficient cars before hopping into his own hybrid car. Several blocks away, he was caught switching from his environmentally friendly ride into a gas-guzzling...
...with partner Joe Ritchie to coordinate what he calls "this contagious enthusiasm," says: "You get the head of Texaco/Chevron calling Kagame and asking him: 'Can you help me with Ethiopia?'" Meanwhile in Washington, Kagame's new friends fixed him a meeting with the then House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert that helped lead to a write-off of Rwanda's debt. "There is no African nation that carries as much favor with corporate America," says Cooper. "These people don't invest in Africa because they don't have a tolerance for corruption and all that garbage. But when they...
...course, if you trip over a year-old newspaper the odds are you'd find Nancy Pelosi saying almost the same thing about Dennis Hastert's congress. As a body, the House has never been famed for its celerity. But in the last six months Democrats have passed just one major piece of legislation into law: the emergency funding bill for the war in Iraq, signed by Bush only after Democrats stripped out a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops...
...investigation and the implications for Jefferson’s own political career, the case has generated controversy in others ways. An FBI raid on Jefferson’s congressional office last May set off a row between the Congress and the White House, with then-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and then-Minority Leader Pelosi issuing a rare joint statement condemning the raid as a violation of the doctrine of separation of powers. And Jefferson’s allies in the Congressional Black Caucus later criticized Pelosi for removing him from his seat on the Ways and Means...