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...John Feehery, who was a top aide to Dennis Hastert, a former GOP House Speaker, said that, while the Republican leaders never loved Mr Trump, “they are not going to cut off their nose to spite their face...
...It is definitely a possibility and it is getting stronger,” said John Feehery, former top aide to Dennis Hastert when he was Republican speaker of the House....
...If Cruz pulls the nomination out of the hat, Fiorina will be the first female VP candidate since John McCain picked Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, in 2008....
...“They will find somebody or John Boehner will stay as Speaker. That’s the forcing mechanism for the Freedom Caucus,” says John Feehery, who served as spokesman for Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker....
...The trouble is the closer you look at their likely use in the fog of war the harder it is to discern the moral boundaries, writes John Thornhill....
...“If faced with that unenviable choice, the devil you don't know [Trump] is better than the devil you do know,” said John Feehery, a former top aide to then House speaker Dennis Hastert....
...John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, is trying to keep his job as the top Republican in Washington, end the government shutdown and increase the debt ceiling....
...John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House known for his love of cigarettes and Merlot and the occasional public tear, could have been declaring victory now were it not for a young senator from Texas...
...The Republicans abandoned their adherence to the “Hastert rule”, by which a “majority of the majority” must support a bill before it is brought to a vote....
...Some of its senior policy officials include a former staffer for Senator John McCain and a former staffer for Denny Hastert, the previous speaker....
...Democratic win in Mississippi on Tuesday delivered the third consecutive Republican congressional defeat in otherwise safe districts following a recent loss in Louisiana and in the Illinois district of Dennis Hastert...
...John Boehner, the House majority leader, said in an interview quoted by AP: “I believed I talked to the speaker and he told me it had been taken care of.”...
...Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House, is not running for a leadership position....
...Dennis Hastert, the outgoing speaker of the House, opted not to run for a leadership post....
...After a week in which Republicans have sought to distance themselves from Mr Hastert, there was a public show of support with Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, and John Boehner, the house majority...
...“When you get down that low, you’re down to blood relatives and paid staffers,” John McCain, a senator and likely Republican presidential contender in 2008, told an audience in South Dakota last week....
...It has been front-page news for several days in The Columbus Dispatch, the district’s main newspaper, and other papers in the state, which have closely tracked the role of John Boehner, another Ohioan who...
...John Boehner, the House majority leader, said Mr Ney had made “big mistakes” but that it was up to him to decide to resign. The White House echoed the new statement....
...Even so, Mr Romney has been assiduous in courting official Washington, lining up congressional leaders for endorsements, including Dennis Hastert, former House speaker....
...At one point, Rep John Shimkus of Illinois, who oversees the page programme, confronted Mr Foley – who stonewalled him....
...John Boehner, the Ohio lawmaker elected to fill Mr DeLay’s spot, said he would be a candidate for Republican minority leader....
...It has also been exacerbated by in-fighting among Republican leaders with John Boehner, the Republican majority leader, suggesting that the scandal was the responsibility of Dennis Hastert, the Republican...
...“I just cannot believe that they allowed this to happen and just told him, OK, stay away from this kid,” Rep John Murtha of Pennsylvania said on ABC’s “This Week.”...
...Within hours of North Korea’s proclaimed nuclear test on Monday Dennis Hastert, the Republican speaker in Congress, and John Boehner, the Republican majority leader on Capitol Hill, issued politically charged...
...Dennis Hastert, the outgoing speaker, will not be a candidate for a top party post....
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