Dennis Hastert

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Dennis Hastert was Republican Speaker of the House from 1999 onward (the closing years of the Clinton administration and all of the Bush Jr. administration), following Newt Gingrich.

Reference

• Wikipedia

Descriptions

Dick Meyer of CBSnews.com says, in Good Riddance To The Gingrichites:

Livingston was succeeded by Dennis Hastert, perhaps the most, well, conventional of the GOP leaders of his era. Still, Hastert was a hawk with no military service and a defender of the rich with no money or experience in business. Dennis Hastert/excerpt