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.
To have good energy policy we have to have good investments,
We have momentum on our side ... I think we'll have a good result.
It's a good blueprint for America's future, ... We're also pleased this Congress can get its work done.
We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.
Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.
You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can,
This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,
In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure what kind of association she's trying to make. If she's trying to be racist, I think that's unfortunate.
These companies need to invest in America's energy infrastructure and resources. ... The oil companies need to do their part,
The second thing that we have to do is to make sure that this doesn't happen again. And we need to look into the investigation of exactly what happened, whose responsibility, so if we move forward, we don't have this problem again.
The United States has a rich immigrant background and continues to benefit from the arrival of law-abiding citizens of other cultures and nationalities. But in this age of terrorism we cannot be lax when it comes to controlling our borders.