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...Amount raised by House Speaker Denny Hastert's political-action committee, Keep Our Majority...
...Amount raised by the PAC in the first two months of 1999, since Hastert became Speaker...
...leaders know they are in no position to take bold steps and that they cannot afford to get into a major confrontation with the President or his party at this time. For the Democrats at the session, the major objective was to take measure of new House Speaker Dennis Hastert. By all accounts, says Carney, the impression he made was one of ?graciousness and non-confrontation.? Both sides seemed to come away feeling they could do business with each other, making the political news from the nation?s capital read (for a change): so far, so good...
...only politician brave enough to advocate spending federal dollars for caffeinated-gum research is Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who pushed for a measly $250,000 in this year's budget. (To give you an idea of how little money that is, if you had a stack of $1,000 bills, there would be only 250 of them.) Hastert knew about the issue not just because he's a progressive-thinking lawmaker, but also because Amurol, the company that makes Stay Alert Caffeine Supplement Gum, is in his district...
Politicians have quickly adopted the foolish language of the press, and the accompanying majoritarian mindset. "I intend to get down to business," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said last month at his swearing-in. "That means formulating, debating and voting on legislation that addresses the problems that the American people want solved." Politicians must walk a fine line between reminding us what we want and urging us to embrace some wants and abandon others. The fact that the Republicans anointed someone as apparently unvisionary as Hastert indicates the consequences of the run to the center in American politics: the desperate capitulation...