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.
Mr. President, we will make your spending request for school construction, we will increase funding for school construction $1.3 billion ... but we want that money to go directly to the school districts that will use it,
I have a hard time seeing the balance in the Senate bill because it unilaterally disarms one side. And I think there are some inherent flaws, some constitutional flaws in the Senate bill,
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,
unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.
There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.
As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million,
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,
This bill lets our nation fight back by renewing important provisions that allow information sharing among government agencies and increased penalties for those who commit terrorist crimes. It strikes the right balance between protecting lives and liberty,
This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper,
The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.
We kind of touched base on where we were, ... I think we reached a tentative understanding. He wanted to take it to the Democrat caucus.