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
It's the right thing to do, ... We've said for two Congresses we want to deliver a prescription drug package. We're at the point now that we have to make sure policy and politics are married up, that we can deliver to the American people what we said is the right thing to do.
It's the job of Congress to do it and we need to be a partner in this operation,
It's the narrowest of margins over there. It's difficult to get things out of the Senate. It would be very unfortunate if that happens, but I'm going to wait and see.
Congress will not use Social Security as a pot of gold to fund foreign aid,
noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant.
It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed.
It's going to be an election year, ... That means, sometimes, that this business gets right contentious and we have committed ourselves to try to meet as often as possible to try to work out whatever difficulties that we can.
It's been a long and challenging road to get us to this point,
It's just working people one by one, one at a time,
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
It wasn't going to be a pleasant day for anybody,
It's time to have a new administration so that we have a fresh energy policy and we don't have this problem,
The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about,
The vote we cast today will help ensure our continued prosperity,