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
We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done,
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 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.
Number one, you have to clean up and neutralize the situation in New Orleans so that they can get in and do the work there. And of course also in Alabama and Mississippi,
We need to clarify it. We need to work on it. We will continue to do that,
When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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.
It's a good blueprint for America's future, ... We're also pleased this Congress can get its work done.
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.
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people,
We're right there on spending. We've got a few things to work out, but we're there,
We still have much work to do. The American people care little about procedure, but they care a lot about final results,
We agreed that we're going to work on procedure... we're going to try to sit down and work out a framework, we'll meet tomorrow, ... We didn't want to get into the policy side before we had a procedure worked out.