Dennis Hastert Official Bio

Dennis Hastert

John Dennis Hastert is an American politician and sex offender who represented from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. The longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history, Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist after the Democrats gained a majority in the chamber in 2007. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the sexual abuse of teenage boys. Wikipedia*

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Dennis Hastert has 642 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1987 House Committee. The year with the most videos was 1999 with 74 videos. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 1995 with an average of 3,691 views per program. Most appearances with Trent Lott (68), Dick Armey (52), Thomas DeLay (47). Most common tags: Republican Party, Legislative Branch, Federal Budget.

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U.S. Representative, R-IL 14th January 3, 1987 - November 26, 2007 Videos: 642

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Past Elections

Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at Voteview .

Historic election results compiled from data found on FEC.gov

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