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...Wrong Message. Rep. Mark Foley helped exploited children by day. A slew of e-mails suggests he exploited them by night. How the scandal may affect the fight for Capitol Hill...
...timeline of Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail scandal from warnings to pages from a Republican staff member to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's admission that he was told about the e-mails...
...With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power. A Prelude To Scandal Senior Congressional aide Kirk Fordham said he had a conversation with House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office about former Rep. Mark Foley two years ago. Hastert dismisses calls for resignation over Foley scandal House Speaker Dennis Hastert rejected resounding calls from conservatives and liberals for his resignation, including the noted conservative editorial pages of The Washington Times...
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...
...Abramoff used to be a problem for the White House primarily because his illegal lobbying activities got G.O.P. members of Congress in legal and political hot water and helped fuel Democrats' campaign message that congressional Republicans were a corrupt bunch that should be thrown out of power. Both Ohio Rep. Bob Ney and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas announced they were stepping down from Congress this year after being dogged by questions about their relationships with the disgraced lobbyist, who has plead guilty to mail fraud and bribery; Ney has already pleaded guilty to bribery charges, while...