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House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday's elections, a Republican official tells TIME. Hastert, 64, a low-key former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a "good cop," compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also...
...Hastert had long planned not to seek reelection to his House seat in 2008. His officials biography says he is the first Republican Speaker in more than a century and one of only two Republicans to preside over consecutive electoral seat gains in the U.S House of Representatives, and is also one of two Republicans to be reelected Speaker for four consecutive terms...
...DRAPES President Bush and company do their darnedest to demonize House Speaker-in-Waiting (maybe) Nancy Pelosi. She's a liberal! She loves taxes! She will take your guns away! That might work, but as far as scary-looking Halloween costumes go, we're still thinking Denny Hastert...
...fourth-ranking Republican in the House, Pryce is as clean as they come. But G.O.P.-dominated Ohio is awash in scandals, and her proximity to Foley-tainted Speaker Dennis Hastert has left her exposed to local anger with the party. Kilroy calls her a rubber stamp for Bush...
...blood-red states where Dean has been on his lonely crusade to find blue voters. In Idaho, where President Bush won 68.4% of the vote in 2004, Democrat Larry Grant is close enough to winning a House seat that Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert have made visits to campaign for Grant's opponent. In Kansas, G.O.P. incumbent Jim Ryun had Cheney in town to raise money in his race against Democrat Nancy Boyda. Democrats are holding out hope in two House districts in another Republican stronghold, Nebraska...