The first thing, Speaker Dennis Hastert said at this time, questioned whether we should rebuild New Orleans.

Post-9/11, Congress deliberately chose to offer the liability protections of the SAFETY Act to ensure a healthy anti-terrorism marketplace.

The time has come for me to make my last speech from this podium.

After 21 years of serving the people of Illinois in this House, the time has come for me to make my last speech from this podium.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert's lawyer went before the House Ethics Committee to explain how his office dealt with complaints about Foley's e-mails to pages.

I, first of all, learned of this last Friday, when we were about to leave Congress for you know, the break to -- to go out and campaign.

They'll be under oath, and we'll find out. If they did cover something up, then they should not continue their -- to have their jobs.

I'm deeply sorry that this has happened. And the bottom line is that we're taking responsibility, because, ultimately, as someone has said in Washington before, the buck stops here.

When you talk about the page issue and what's happened in the Congress, I'm deeply sorry that this has happened. And the bottom line is that we're taking responsibility because ultimately, as someone has said in Washington before, the buck…

You know, I'm going to run, and presumably win, in this election.

I'm going to run and presumably win in this election. And when we do, I expect to run for speaker.