Dennis Hastert: “The foreign operations budget.”

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.

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

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.

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.