Hastert's "Perp Walk"...

The New York Times Jeff Zeleny October 24, 2006 07:50 PM

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert testified before the House ethics committee today, telling four representatives and a team of investigators when he first learned of concerns about former Representative Mark Foley's behavior around Congressional pages.

Two weeks before Election Day, Mr. Hastert had planned to be hop-scotching from district-to-district across America, working to preserve a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and his own seat of power. Instead, he endured the political version of a perp walk as he made his way from the spacious speaker's suite to a dim corridor in the basement of the Capitol, where the ethics committee was meeting behind closed doors.

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