SPEAKER HASTERT HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON HOUSE PAGE SCANDAL
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), speaks to reporters during a news conference outside of his Batavia, Illinois office on October 5, 2006. Hastert apologized and accepted responsibility for the House page scandal and added that he has asked for a criminal investigation into the matter. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)
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YORKVILLE, Ill., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- J. Dennis Hastert has spent $1 million in taxpayer money for an office and staff since stepping down as U.S. House speaker, a newspaper inquiry found.
WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- Republicans had a run of bad luck last week that could have repercussions for the GOP come Election Day, The Washington Post said Sunday.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., has been asked to join the board of CME Group Inc., owners of the Chicago Board of Trade.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. political strategists say a financial gap and numerous retirements complicate the 2008 congressional landscape for the Republican Party.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker ever, announced Tuesday he is leaving Congress after his current term.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The former clerk who ran the page program for the U.S. Congress has testified he periodically alerted GOP leadership to Rep. Mark Foley's Capitol behavior.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Bush's immigration plan lacks House GOP support reportedly because most feel a secure border must come first.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have had to settle on a compromise bill that will not fully repeal the estate tax.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Some U.S. Senate leaders seem less outraged than those in the House over FBI's search of the office of Rep. William J. Jefferson, D-La., in a bribery probe.
WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate has approved an expanded $109 billion emergency spending bill that the House speaker says is "dead on arrival" in his chamber.
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