Posts Tagged ‘Denny Hastert’
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Boehner Is In Fine Shape
Posted on July 27, 2011
John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times. When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as...
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Fixers and Breakers
Posted on July 19, 2011
There are two kinds of politicians. Fixers come into office to fix things. They seek to fix problems for their constituents, fix the legislative process and fix government. Breakers come...
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Regular Order
Posted on October 1, 2010
When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber. To Hastert, regular...
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A Conservative Urban Agenda?
Posted on March 22, 2010
The same weekend that the President won his biggest legislative victory, a group of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley, convened a meeting in...
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Can the House trust the Senate? (From CNN)
Posted on March 12, 2010
Washington (CNN) — When the Founding Fathers decided to create a bicameral legislative branch, they were trying to make things difficult for the federal government to grab power from the...
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