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Ralph Hellmann, the legislative director for House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), urged his colleagues on Friday to find a comfortable balance between their own desires and the enormous expectations upon them...
...panel ended where it began--with a discussion of the actual issues that are likely to come to a vote soon. Hellman, whose boss Hastert has perhaps more influence on next year's legislative agenda than almost any other Republican, spoke of defense and education, Social Security and incremental tax relief...
...pool camera. Bush's photo-op on the ranch Saturday was of a Republican ruling council, looking and sounding sincere but still very capable of scaring the other half of the country to death. Bush and Cheney pulled up tastefully patterned armchairs for House Speaker Denny Hastert, with a wrestling-coach glisten on his face, and Senate boss Trent Lott, looking odd in denim. (Tom DeLay had to wait in the shed until the TV crew left.) Bush was an affable host, sharing the soundbites near-equally, and when it was his turn, he talked at some length about legislation...
During his first term as Speaker, Democrats complained the ex-coach talked bipartisanship but didn't establish his own game plan. Suspicions persist that Hastert is a proxy for conservative Republican power brokers Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, both of whom were too nuclear to be elected Speaker following the impeachment debacle. Indeed, DeLay appeared to sweep in and hijack the budget negotiations two weeks ago. But Hastert gruffly dismisses such talk, and last week he was acting very much like a man in charge. While partisans burned with each Florida ballot count, Hastert quietly phoned Democratic whip David Bonior...
...where he won the presidential caucuses in 1988, in preparation for another White House bid in 2004. But the day after the election, Gephardt confirmed he would seek the leader's post again and, after months of being a bulldog, started acting like a leader. He telephoned Speaker Dennis Hastert, with whom he had scarcely talked since the two fought early this year about who should be House chaplain, and invited the Illinois Republican to lunch. "I know we've had our differences, and I want it to get better," Gephardt said, and Hastert agreed. Gephardt told TIME that...