Dennis Hastert

This is one of the leaks that come out to try to intimidate people and we're just not going to be intimidated on it.

We think those materials ought to be returned.

Those people involved in that issue ought to be frozen out of that just for the sake of the constitutional aspect of it.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi say the bureau violated the constitutional separation of powers when it raided the office of Congressman William Jefferson.

There's ways to do it. And my opinion is that they took the wrong path.

But there's ways to do it, and my opinion is that they took the wrong path.

It's something that's important to keep this economy coming.

We have passed legislation time and time again, with Democrats blocking it. But that was history. Now this is the future. And we need to move forward.

We are 65 percent dependent on foreign oil. Places like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela, whenever they decide to turn the spigot or raise the prices, our consumers suffer.

This is not about personalities. It's not about somebody's ego. It's not about racial profiling. It's trying to make this place safer and working with the people who try to make it safer.

I am concerned about the national security implications of the deal and called for an immediate moratorium.

At the request of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the decorated tree on the west front of the Capitol Building is once again taking the name Christmas tree.

It is, much better to be us than them.

The foreign operations budget.

This means it's a very bittersweet victory for House speaker Dennis Hastert, who threw some of his own political capital behind this bill.

I think you'll see Al Qaeda trying to influence this election.

(UNINTELLIGIBLE) is that, you know, we knew that there were Khobar Towers, and we knew there was a World Trade Tower, and we knew about Osama bin Laden, and we knew about all these happenings around the world.

We knew that there were Khobar Towers, and we knew there was a World Trade Tower, and we knew about Osama bin Laden, and we knew about all these happenings around the world.

I just wanted to salute the gentleman from Florida. He has many great years of service as chairman of this committee. This is the last intelligence authorization that the gentleman from Florida will handle. He is retiring at the end of…

Ronald Reagan allowed millions of people to walk in freedom today because he had the ability to challenge.

When the rest of the world stepped forward and challenged the Soviet Union. And I think because of that, there are people who walk in freedom today.

The speaker gives in. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has agreed to allow the president's 9/11 Commission an extra 60 days to fin the work.

It's wrong to make the issue, quote, 'political football during an election year.'

The House Speaker think it's wrong to make the issue, quote, "political football during an election year."

I rise in support of the constitutional amendment today. Make no mistake about it, working Americans are taxed too much. They are taxed at a higher rate than since the Second World War. They are taxed when they eat. They are taxed when…