Hastert

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 30 days ago
The AP has found out that during former House speaker Dennis Hastert’s last 11 months in office, he “managed to visit seven nations and run up a tab of just over $20,000 in taxpayer-funded overseas trips.” Hastert — who held no leadership position in Congress during this time — traveled to the UK, Belgium, [...] ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 47 days ago
Former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert recently joined Dickstein Shapiro, a “powerhouse Washington law and lobbying firm.” He will cash in on his time as a lawmaker and is estimated to make more than $500,000 a year. Today, the New York Times has an editorial on this troubling revolving door: We never really expected [...] ...

Source: www.lewrockwell.com --- 14 days ago
Former ex-FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who is still gagged to protect the guilty, is right once again, this time about criminal neocon ex-Speaker Hastert. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)... ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 29 days ago
   Former House Speaker on junket binge for final months in office. ...

Source: www.opensecrets.org --- 48 days ago
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert didn't have far to jump between Capitol Hill and K Street. Although a spokesman from his soon-to-be employer, Dickstein Shapiro , told the Washington Post that the Illinois Republican will merely be advising the law and lobbying firm's clients, he's bringing with him a resume padded with the type of access to Congress that lobbying firms covet. Hastert was House Speaker between 1999 and 2006 and resigned from Congress last November. During his congressional career, he raised a total of $19.6 million, with AT&T , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the American Medical Association among his most generous contributors. During his career he also maintained an active leadership PAC, called Keep Our Majority PAC , through which he gave nearly $3.5 million to other candidates and lawmakers. The PAC most recently reported having $480,000 in the bank, money that Hastert could continue to dole out to lawmakers, even though he's not their leader anymore. Hastert lost his leadership position to the new Democratic majority in 2006. At the end of his congressional career, he became a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, likely a perk for Dickstein Shapiro, which reported lobbying on energy and nuclear power, among other issues, last year. The firms' clients include various energy companies, in addition to companies in industries that contributed heavily to Hastert while he was in Congr ...

Source: www.bradblog.com --- 51 days ago
Guest Blogged by Luke Ryland of Let Sibel Edmonds Speak... So, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is again proven right. For more than a year Sibel has been predicting that Dennis Hastert will join a lobbying firm involved with Turkey, and now we learn that Hastert is joining Dickstein Shapiro. In the "Representative Engagements" section of Dickstein's [...] ...

Source: thenewamerican.com --- 50 days ago
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: Dennis Hastert takes a job with a lobbying firm that boasts the government of Turkey as one of its clients. Follow this link to the original source: " Sibel Edmonds Case: Dennis Hastert to receive payoffs for 'services rendered' " COMMENTARY: The Washington, D.C. lobbying law firm Dickstein Shapiro announced on May 31 that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) is joining the firm as a senior advisor. According to a spokesman for Dickstein Shapiro, Hastert “will be providing strategic counseling to our clients.” According to the firm’s web site, those clients included “the government of Turkey in connection with the development and financing by private sponsors of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and TransCaspian gas pipeline spanning from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.” Interestingly, former FBI translator-turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been predicting for over a year that Mr. Hastert would soon be taking a position with a lobbying firm involved with Turkey. Mrs. Edmonds’ heroic efforts to expose high-level bribery, cover-up, and infiltration of our nation’s key intelligence and defense institutions by foreign agents tied to terrorist organizations have been stymied by both the Republican and Democratic leadership in Washington. The government has repeatedly invoked the State Secrets privilege in her case not to protect national security, but to conceal ongoing criminal activity in governmen ...

Source: www.asbarez.com --- 48 days ago
WASHINGTON--Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) became the latest House member to join the army of Washington, DC public relations firms working to cover up Turkey's crimes, reported the Armeni... Read Complete Article! ...

Source: www.rollcall.com --- 19 days ago
Former Speaker Dennis Hastert is performing a legislative encore of sorts. ...

Source: visibility911.com --- 47 days ago
Who Is Sibel Edmonds? With Introduction By 9/11 Family Member Lorie Van Auken - Jon Former House Majority Leader Will Now Work for DC Lobbying Firm Source: abcnews.go.com By JUSTIN ROOD June 3, 2008 Former House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert settled in yesterday to new digs in the Washington, D.C. offices of Dickstein Shapiro, a law/lobby firm. Hastert was said to [...] ...

Source: bigheaddc.com --- 52 days ago
An angry GOP blogger says yes: I was one of Dennis’ first friends here in Washington. One of the few who could talk in detail with him about high school wrestling over the occasional mid-morning drink (I grappled JV back in high school). From what I hear, he was one of the most hands-on and effective [...] ...

Source: www.afterdowningstreet.org --- 51 days ago
After all this how is it possible that Hastert is not behind bars? ...

Source: usalovedog.seo-blog.org --- 1 hour ago
The proposal may yet fizzle, however, as it did in December when Congress cut physics funding to meet a spending cap imposed by the president. Leaving open the question whether it was Mr. Remember, we need your help to collect information on what is going on in your part of the world. [...] ...

Source: dryingink.com --- 9 days ago
King Governor Rod Blagojevich is trying to get two political heavyweights, Glen Poshard and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to convince the General Assembly that he can be trusted. Crain's Chicago Business is apparently buying into this bamboozle, too with their headline "Blagojevich moves to break budget logjam." But then they go on to say that King Rod himself never bothered to actually sign the memo that outlines the capital spending plan. read more ...

Source: realtime.sunlightprojects.org --- 46 days ago
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s days raising money for his political campaigns might come in handy when he sits down with the clients of his new employer, law and lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro LLP. The firm has a long list of clients in the health care sector — an industry that provided generous support for [...] ...

Source: www.citybarbs.com --- 47 days ago
Not that we didn’t see it coming–it was pretty clear that he bailed on us to beat the new “revolving door” rules–but the ABC News Report also did a rundown of the last few sordid years. Besides his part in the Foley scandal, A 2003 letter Hastert wrote aiding certain Indian tribes threatened to draw him [...] ...

Source: www.eisenstadtgroup.com --- 53 days ago
I was one of Dennis’ first friends here in Washington. One of the few who could talk in detail with him about high school wrestling over the occasional mid-morning drink (I grappled JV back in high school). From what I hear, he was one of the most hands-on and effective wrestling coaches of [...] ...

Source: nearing.newsvine.com --- 30 days ago
The AP has found out that during former House speaker Dennis Hastert's last 11 months in office, he "managed to visit seven nations and run up a tab of just over $20,000 in taxpayer-funded overseas trips." Hastert — who held no leadership position in Congress during this  … ...

Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 12 days ago
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro The DCCC has reserved initial ad buys of almost $35 million in 19 states and 31 House races. Dems will spend $13.5 million on open GOP-held seats, $10.8 million to protect Dem-held seats, $9 million on Republican-held Seats and $1.2 million on open Dem seats. The buys would begin in September and October. A document first reported on by the AP and also obtained by First Read shows Democrats advertising to protect 11 seats and challenging nine GOP incumbents. Dems will also be up initially in 11 open seats. The most advertising points will be placed in KS-2 to protect Rep. Nancy Boyda's seat (about $1.2 million for 16,200 points). Others places Dems are playing heavily to protect are IN-9 (Baron Hill ) and FL-16 ( Mahoney --the Mark Foley seat). In a show of confidence, notably left off the list are two of the seats in which Democrats won special elections since 2006 -- IL-14 (Bill Foster -formerly Hastert's seat) and MS-1 (Travis Childers' new seat, which went 62%-37% for Bush over Kerry). Dems will be spending more than $700,000 to protect the other seat they won this year, LA-6 ( Cazayoux ). Dems will also be challenging heavily in MI-7 ( Walberg ) and NC-8 ( Hayes ). In open seats, Dems are putting in more than 10,000 points -- almost $1 million for MO-9. ...( read more ) ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 51 days ago
Politico - Nancy Pelosi has delivered 68 floor speeches in the 16 months since she became speaker of the House — nearly as many as her predecessor, Dennis Hastert, delivered in his entire eight-year reign. ...