Posts Tagged ‘Denny Hastert’
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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The Myth of Regular Order
Posted on October 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In the aftermath of the Jim Wright resignation and the House bank scandal in the early 1990s, then-Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) and then-House Minority...
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In the Wake of a Scandal
Posted on June 2, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) How do you defend the indefensible? How do you justify the unjustifiable? When it comes to the latest scandal involving my former boss, Denny...
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Jim Wright: Leaving a Mark
Posted on May 7, 2015
Jim Wright left a mark. I came to Washington to work for House Republican Leader Bob Michel in September of 1989, about four months after the Texas Democrat stepped down...
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Dick Cheney: Man of the House
Posted on March 25, 2015
Dick Cheney’s speech at the NRCC Congressional dinner brought back all kinds of memories for me. I interviewed to work on Mr. Cheney’s Presidential campaign in 1994. It was Dave...
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