Ex-House Speaker Hastert Finds New Home

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 have been the longest-serving Republican House Majority Leader in history, holding the post from January 1999 to November 2006, when Democrats wrested control of the House away from the GOP in the midterm elections. Hastert's time as a leader on Capitol Hill was brushed by multiple scandals. Perhaps the most damaging came from... Full Story