Tag: Dennis Hastert

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. (iStock photo)

Conservatives accuse GOP of ditching fiscal restraint with new spending deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 12:54 pm

Mac Thornberry on budget deal: ‘If you vote ‘no,’ you are voting against fixing the military’

Travis J. Tritten · February 7, 2018 10:40 pm

Vice President Mike Pence will be a key fundraising and bankrolling figure as the Republican Party approaches what looks to be brutal midterm elections this year. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mike Pence prioritizes Trump loyalists, swing districts in 2018 fundraising

David M. Drucker · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump did not say he had any intention of eliminating any other part of Obamacare, after the law's individual mandate was repealed last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican lawmakers take Trump’s Obamacare repeal snub in stride

Robert King · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

"I think the sense is we are probably going to have a short-term CR," Meadows said Tuesday. "The question is: What is attached to it?" (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives may demand infrastructure money in next spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · January 30, 2018 5:12 pm

Throughout his two-plus years as speaker, Paul Ryan has been able to maintain a tenuous peace within the House Republican conference, a group of politicians with wildly divergent views and styles that proved unmanageable for Boehner and that might have been unable to settle on a leader if Ryan hadn't been drafted in 2015. (Illustration by Nate Beeler for the Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan gets it done

Joseph Lawler · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Some analysts predict big gains for Democrats in November - even a takeover in the House, where Republicans have held the majority since 2010 and now enjoy a 21-seat advantage.

GOP agenda runs up against the midterms

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was released from prison on Monday after serving 13 months for lying to federal investigators about money used to hide sexual abuse charges. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Dennis Hastert released from prison early

Jack O'brien · July 18, 2017 2:24 pm

Dennis Hastert shows up for first day of prison

Anna Giaritelli · June 22, 2016 11:32 pm

Dennis Hastert's attorney says that the former House speaker will report to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota this week to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert to report to prison Wednesday

Kelly Cohen · June 22, 2016 3:21 pm

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the nation's longest-serving Republican speaker, was sentenced to 15 months in prison last month for violating federal bank laws in sending hush money to sexual abuse victims. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Ex-House speaker Hastert won’t appeal 15-month prison sentence

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 7:24 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: What’s worse than being called Lucifer?

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2016 11:28 pm