Dennis Hastert

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  • Dennis Hastert on what makes sense

    The Republican speaker of the House backtracks after saying that it doesn't make sense to spend money rebuilding New Orleans. What about Iraq?
    By T.G. September 2, 2005

  • Hints of corruption in the House of Representatives

    The FBI serves search warrants on a House Democrat while Vanity Fair raises questions concerning the Republican speaker.
    By T.G. August 4, 2005

  • All about DeLay

    The House majority leader's handprints figure prominently in a trial in Austin alleging the illegal use of soft money in Texas' 2002 election.
    By Lou Dubose March 1, 2005

  • Joe McCarthy lives

    The Bush campaign's attacks on Democrats as "soft on terrorism" recall the dark arts of the demagogic senator. And once again, the press is playing along.
    By Eric Boehlert September 30, 2004

  • Bin Laden's candidate

    Serial slanderers like Dennis Hastert say terrorists want John Kerry to win. The facts say George W. Bush is al-Qaida's best recruitment tool.
    By Joe Conason September 24, 2004

  • House divided

    GOP enforcer Tom DeLay and his former partner Dick Armey are locked in a nasty dispute over the future of the Republican Party.
    By Mary Jacoby May 24, 2004

  • Denny Hastert's wild Washington

    Thanks to the House GOP's gutting of ethics rules, the capital is once again the land of free food, junkets and lobbyists galore.
    By Arianna Huffington January 23, 2003

  • The bipartisanship bust

    It didn't take long after Sept. 11 for the Republican right in Congress to return to the business-as-usual of fattening the rich.
    By Joe Conason October 16, 2001

  • "Better to lose fighting a noble cause"?

    Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition kick off the "Road to Victory '99" convention.
    By Jake Tapper October 1, 1999

  • Put a price on his head

    Now that we've won the war and silenced the critics, let's put a bounty on Milosevic.
    By Joe Conason June 15, 1999

  • Search for a boogeyman

    With Clinton and Gingrich out of the picture come Election Day 2000, how will Democrats and Republicans scare the voters? Hint: Imagine Dick Gephardt with horns.
    By Jake Tapper June 11, 1999

  • Shays calls the GOP's bluff

    By trying to force a floor vote on campaign finance reform, Rep. Chris Shays puts his money where his mouth is -- and his career in jeopardy.
    By Jake Tapper May 27, 1999

  • Whole Lott o' blamin' goin' on

    Senate Republicans are angry that their leadership let Al Gore be a hero on guns.
    By Jake Tapper May 24, 1999

  • Shays' rebellion

    The maverick congressman may buck GOP leadership and push for a vote on campaign finance reform.
    by Jake Tapper May 21, 1999

  • Burn, baby, burn

    Congress returns to the nation's business by reintroducing the divisive, perennial flag burning amendment -- but this time it just might pass the Senate.
    By Jake Tapper March 3, 1999

  • Burn, baby, burn

    Congress returns to the nation's business by reintroducing the divisive, perennial flag burning amendment -- but this time it just might pass the Senate.
    By Jake Tapper March 3, 1999
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