Word: hasterts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader...
...caution Hastert and Gephardt displayed was vindicated somewhat when the environmental sweep turned up traces of anthrax in a House mailroom and, tragically so, when two District of Columbia postal workers died, perhaps from handling the Daschle letter, or other letters posted to members of Congress. Though six congressional office buildings remained closed for anthrax testing, the Senate went back into session on Tuesday with House members hard on their heels...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert sounded a note of alarm when he told reporters there may be reason to suspect the spores from the Daschle letter infiltrated the ventilation system in the lawmakers' office buildings. The House has shut down until October 23rd, and the Senate will close early on Friday so the buildings can be tested...
...Then suddenly House Speaker Dennis Hastert was announcing the House of Representatives would be shut down through Tuesday while bio-detectives swept the offices. Tom Daschle?s list of anthrax scares was into the dozens, and George Pataki was starting one of his own. And stocks started slipping, and slipping, until the Dow?s 100-point opening-bell rally was 20, 30, 100 points into the red. Not exactly crashing, but not threatening to turn around any time soon...
Rank-and-file lawmakers of both parties believe there have been far too many deals coming out of cozy bipartisan sessions like the meeting last week in Hastert's office. "House Republicans and House Democrats are both gagging on this," says G.O.P. strategist Ed Gillespie. Liberals in the House are livid Gephardt agreed to a bailout, promoted by Republican Senate minority leader Trent Lott among others, that helped airline shareholders without doing anything for laid-off workers. And conservatives went into revolt when Hastert nearly signed on to the idea of making 20,000 airport security workers federal employees. "Both...