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 know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.
We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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.
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.
To have good energy policy we have to have good investments,
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.
You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.
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.