Word: instantness
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert rose to power because of a sex scandal, and now another one eight years later is threatening to take him down. The controversy around former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned last Friday after e-mails and instant messages that showed him making inappropriate and at times lurid comments to Capitol Hill pages, has now shifted to the questions that have defined every Washington scandal since Watergate: which higher-ups knew, when they knew it, and whether there was a cover-up. Hastert, as the leader of the Republicans in the House, is getting the closest...
...series of moves to reassure Republicans he's in control of the scandals - such setting up a toll-free number for people to call with any similar problems in the page program, and holding a press conference Monday to stress that he had not seen the more salacious instant messages when the scandal broke last Friday...
...scandal involving Mark Foley, the Florida congressman who resigned last Friday after the discovery of lurid e-mails and instant messages he sent to teenage congressional pages, has the potential to reshape the election landscape. It was the latest blow in a bad week of news for Republican congressmen getting ready to leave town to campaign - following a congressional report linking the White House to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and showing dozens more contacts with him than the White House had admitted, and a book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward strongly suggesting the Administration has mislead the public about...
...WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? Florida Congressman Mark Foley resigns after the emergence of inappropriate e-mails and instant messages to teenage House pages. The media engage in rounds of oh-no-we-can't-watch-but-we-must-watch. Most feel bad for his young targets--except journos with new books out, who, pushed from the spotlight, just feel bad for themselves...
RESIGNED. Mark Foley, 52, fast- rising six-term moderate G.O.P. Congressman from Florida whose signature cause was protecting children from sexual predators; after the disclosure of e-mails and instant messages, some of them sexually suggestive, that he allegedly sent to several current and former teenage male pages in the House of Representatives; in Washington. As chairman of the House Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, Foley introduced legislation last summer to shield children from adult exploitation over the Internet. In a statement, the Congressman, who was a deputy Republican whip and until his abrupt departure had been expected...