John Dennis Hastert is an American former politician,teacher,and wrestling coach who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After Democrats gained a majority in the House in 2007,Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist. In 2016,he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys.
Mark Edward Souder was an American politician and businessman from Indiana. A Republican,he was a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2010.
James Thomas Kolbe was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Arizona's 5th congressional district from 1985 to 2003 and its 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2007. A moderate,pro–abortion rights Republican,he came out as gay in 1996 after voting in support of the Defense of Marriage Act;his subsequent re-elections made him the second openly gay Republican elected to Congress.
Virginia Brown-Waite is an American politician who served as U.S. Representative for Florida's 5th congressional district from 2003 until 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and a founder of Maggie's List.
Thomas M. Reynolds is an American politician from the U.S. state of New York,formerly representing the state's 27th and 26th Congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives. Reynolds was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,the official Republican House campaign organization,for the 2006 election cycle. He retired amid scandal at the end of the 110th Congress. He was cleared of any wrongdoing by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Chris Lee was elected to succeed him.
The U.S. House Committee on Ethics,often known simply as the Ethics Committee,is one of the committees of the United States House of Representatives. Before the 112th Congress,it was known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
The 2006 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7,2006,to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. It took place in the middle of President George W. Bush's second term in office. All 435 seats of the House were up for election. Those elected served in the 110th United States Congress from January 3,2007,until January 3,2009. The incumbent majority party,the Republicans,had won majorities in the House consecutively since 1994,and were defeated by the Democrats who won a majority in the chamber,ending 12 years of Republican control in the House.
The 2006 Republican Party scandals resulted in four resignations and three election losses for Republican politicians during the first two years of George W. Bush's second term as President and leading up to the 2006 midterm elections.
Joseph Negron,Jr. is a Republican politician from Florida. He served as a member of the Florida Senate from 2009 to 2018,representing parts of the Treasure Coast. In his last two years in office,he served as Senate President. Previously,Negron served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the Martin County-based 82nd district from 2000 to 2006.
Florida's 16th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress which encompasses eastern Hillsborough County and the entirety of Manatee County. In the 2020 redistricting cycle,the district was drawn out of Sarasota and Sarasota County to include more of Tampa's eastern suburbs,including Riverview and parts of Brandon south of Florida State Road 60.
The 2006 United States House of Representatives Elections in Florida took place on November 7,2006. Elections were held in Florida's 1st through 25th congressional districts.
Timothy Edward Mahoney is an American politician and businessman who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 16th congressional district from 2007 to 2009. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected in November 2006 after his opponent,six-term Republican incumbent Mark Foley,resigned on September 29,2006,after questions were raised about an email exchange with a congressional page.
The Mark Foley scandal,which broke in late September 2006,centers on soliciting emails and sexually suggestive instant messages sent by Mark Foley,a Republican congressman from Florida,to teenaged boys who had formerly served as congressional pages. Investigation was closed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on September 19,2008 citing insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges as both "Congress and Mr. Foley denied us access to critical data," said FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey. The scandal grew to encompass the response of Republican congressional leaders to previous complaints about Foley's contacts with the pages and inconsistencies in the leaders' public statements. There were also allegations that a second Republican congressman,Jim Kolbe,had improper conduct with at least two youths,a 16-year-old page and a recently graduated page.
Kirk Fordham serves as Senior Director of Member and Board Relations for the National Association of Manufacturers.
The 2008 United States House of Representatives Elections in Florida were held on November 4,2008 to determine who would represent the state of Florida in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 4,2009 until January 3,2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Thomas Joseph Rooney is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Florida from 2009 to 2019. He represented Florida's 16th congressional district from 2009 to 2013 and Florida's 17th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The 2006 congressional elections in Illinois were held November 7,2006 to determine who would represent the State of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives.
The United States House of Representatives Page Program was a program run by the United States House of Representatives,under the office of the Clerk of the House,in which high school students acted as non-partisan federal employees in the House of Representatives,providing supplemental administrative support to House operations in a variety of capacities in Washington,D.C.,at the United States Capitol. The program ended in 2011,although the Senate Page program continued. Pages served within the U.S. House of Representatives for over 180 years.
Elections in the Southern United States are a composite or summary of elections is each of its component states.
