Dennis Hastert: “It is, much better to be us than them.”

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.

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…

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.

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.