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A conversation with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert
with Dennis Hastert on Feb 9, 2005
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with Dennis Hastert on Feb 9, 2005
John Dennis Hastert is an American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. After 16 years of teaching and coaching wrestling at Yorkville High School in his home state of Illinois he served six years in the State House before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986.
In 1999, Hastert’s colleagues elected him Speaker of the House, making him the third highest government official in the U.S.. He surpassed Joseph Gurney Cannon as the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history on June 1, 2006. Since 1987, he has been a Republican congressman from Illinois, representing that state’s 14th District.
Hastert was reelected to an eleventh term in Congress in the 2006 general election, defeating former United States Navy intelligence analyst John Laesch. However, the Republican Party lost its majority in the House and on November 8, Hastert announced that he would not seek a leadership position in the 110th session of Congress.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert
