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...that they've got the sunny, compassionate face of George W. Bush watching over them, congressional Republicans apparently figure it's safe to channel the pudgy soul of Newt Gingrich. And so on Monday House Speaker Dennis Hastert and GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay yanked a late-night budget deal out from under their own negotiators and waded into one last budget showdown with Bill Clinton. And this time, they're definitely gonna take him. Really...
...DENNIS HASTERT Speaker budges on minimum wage. We now return him to his regularly scheduled anonymity...
Besides Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey, Clinton brought along a gaggle of Congressmen, both Republicans and Democrats, to help bolster support for the program. The most notable is one of the president's chief antagonists on Capitol Hill - Dennis Hastert, the Republican House Speaker. Head of a drug sub-committee, Hastert has been to Colombia half a dozen times and was instrumental in passing the aid package. Clinton probably used the time to do some bonding in advance of doing his bit for Al Gore's campaign by vetoing Republican...
...floor where big donors rubbed shoulders with big Republicans while the convention went forward on TV sets hardly anybody bothered to watch. Why would they? Eye contact with the power brokers of Congress was the real point of the proceedings. In the skybox suite for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a lobbyist for Union Pacific fretted on Tuesday night that the Speaker had not shown up yet. "My entire board of directors is coming down tomorrow," she said. "They're going to be disappointed if they don't get face time...
...DENNY HASTERT Congress? I don't know no Congress! G.O.P. leadership all but ignored in Philly...