the House Speaker think it's wrong to make the issue, quote, "political football during an election year."
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Dennis Hastert expressed his opinion on the investigation into the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that it should not be politicized during an election year.
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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…
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