Speaker Hastert Testifies Before Ethics Panel
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WASHINGTON — The House speaker, Rep. Dennis Hastert, testified in private before ethics investigators yesterday and then said they should work quickly to find out who knew about Rep. Mark Foley’s come-ons to congressional pages and what was done about it.
Mr. Hastert spoke briefly after his closed-door testimony to the House ethics committee that is trying to pin down when he and his staff learned about Mr. Foley’s actions.
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