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
You may disagree with some changes in this bill, just as some of our members disagree with other details, ... But all Americans will see this bill as a victory for common sense, and I urge you to support it.
We need to clarify it. We need to work on it. We will continue to do that,
We need to let our people speak. We need to debate those issues and then we let the best ideas win, ... Right now, we believe the American people stand behind us. They want to see us preserve Social Security, they want us to keep the budget balanced and we're going to do our level best to do it.
We have momentum on our side ... I think we'll have a good result.
When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time,
This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper,
We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.
We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.
We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild too. Stubbornness.
The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.
We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.
Both sides can be proud of this accord,
For every dollar we spend on this means a dollar that's going to take a little bit longer to balance the budget,