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Hastert's secret list has hill buzzing over his Pasco protégé
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 23, 2006 02:37pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Saturday, October 21, 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Doc Hastings, speaker of the House? People lingering around the Capitol during the pre-election recess recently began mouthing that phrase, though uncertainly.
It's all because of recent reports in Roll Call and The Washington Post about the existence of a secret list of those the current speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, has named as his potential successors in the event of a disaster.
The list is controversial and, at least one congressional scholar says, may be unconstitutional.
Hastings, R-Pasco, became Hastert's protégé several years ago.
In 2005, Hastert put Hastings in charge of the Ethics Committee during the scandals involving former Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and lobbyist Jack Abramoff. |
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