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Released: 9/10/2007
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ChicagoTribune.com
Hastert name back on campus
Associated Press
September 10, 2007
Wheaton College is naming a new public-policy center after a famous alumnus, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
The J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy will open in December.
The longest-serving Republican House speaker announced last month that he won't run for re-election.
Hastert was chief deputy whip to powerful Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas in the midst of President Bill Clinton's impeachment process, when House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston of Louisiana withdrew in December 1998 amid disclosures of marital infidelity.
Hastert's pragmatism with his colleagues quickly earned him the speaker's post. He dealt with passage of the Bush administration tax cuts, expansion of Medicare to include prescription drugs and getting money to New York and negotiating the Patriot Act after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Hastert has already donated his congressional papers to the college.
College spokeswoman Sarah Clark said the school is raising $2.5 million for programs and activities at the center.
The Illinois congressman graduated from the Christian university in 1964.
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