Dennis Hastert
Dennis Hastert
John Dennis "Denny" Hastertis a former politician from Illinois, the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1999 to 2007, and an admitted serial child molester. He represented Illinois's 14th congressional district in the House for twenty years, 1987 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. In 2015, Hastert pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of structuring financial transactions to conceal payments to an individual whom he had sexually abused...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 January 1942
CityAurora, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The American people want us to go to work. They want us to produce good policy, ... The ability for us to save Social Security and Medicare in the future, the ability to give American workers and working families more of their money so that they can keep it in their pocket instead of giving it to the tax collectors.
The American people have pulled together in an amazing show of unity to help the Gulf Coast region, and I am proud of our citizens, ... Now, it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to do the same.
The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it,
I would again urge Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to join in this effort and not to boycott this Select Bipartisan Committee,
I think there are some areas we can work together on to try to find some compromises,
Our hearts and prayers go out to him,
It is something that will help the economy.
When it comes to a question of the safety of our troops, I don't think we should have any question at all. For our members to move a piece of legislation, they have to have confidence that we do no harm, that we actually make sure that our troops are safe.
We're cautiously optimistic, ... We're doing as well as we can expect, it's going to be a long night and we have to see what happens in California.
We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done,
We must not allow the possibility of compromising our national security due to lack of review or oversight by the federal government.
We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,
We're very, very happy with the decisions we've made,