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<div>==Overview==<br />
{{seed}}[[category:people]][[Dennis Hastert]] was [[US Republican Party|Republican]] [[wikipedia:Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] from 1999-2006 (the closing years of the [[Clinton administration]] and the first 6 years of the [[Bush II administration]]), following [[Newt Gingrich]]. The Republicans were defeated in the [[2006-11 US election]] and [[Democrats (US)|Democrat]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] became Speaker for the [[110th US Congress]].<br />
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==Reference==<br />
* {{wikipedia|Dennis Hastert}}<br />
==Descriptions==<br />
{{excerpt|from [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12054520/the_10_worst_congressmen/1 The Highway Robber], #1 in Rolling Stone's [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12054520/the_10_worst_congressmen/ The Ten Worst Congressmen]:}}<br />
Hastert could well be the weakest House speaker in history. Tapped by [[Tom DeLay]] to serve as the mild-mannered frontman for the GOP leadership, the former wrestling coach ceded most of his power to the now-disgraced majority leader, allowing Republicans to treat the Capitol as their private piggy bank. Last year, Hastert got in on the action himself, secretly inserting $207 million into the budget for the "Prairie Parkway"</div>194.44.219.240