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
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
It's a good blueprint for America's future, ... We're also pleased this Congress can get its work done.
This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,
You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can,
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.
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.