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
Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.
The American public, especially the people of the Gulf Coast region, deserve to know what happened in the early days of the storm. At every level of government - local, state and federal - the initial response was simply unacceptable, ... push for answers.
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.
The American people have pulled together in an amazing show of unity to help the Gulf Coast region, and I am proud of our citizens, ... Now, it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to do the same.
The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
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.
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.
noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant.
It's just working people one by one, one at a time,
When you really look in depth, the reason we're losing people offshore is the inequity of our tax code as compared to our competitors overseas,
There are some people who would have it politically convenient to have a recession because that means they would have a political advantage. We are not going to let that happen, ... By moving that tax cut early and having it in time to kick this economy up and get it going, we are not going to let that happen.
We're at a deadlock with a couple of people in the Senate who know everything, ... So we have to do what we have to do to make this work and kick the can down the road for another fight.
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.