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- ↑ Campaign and Elections, July 2006 via Eric Cantor's campaign website
- ↑ The Hill, May 23, 2006 Archived May 14, 2007, at archive.today
- ↑ Sweet column: Scandal splits Hastert, Shimkus. Tracing Hastert hostility towards Soros. Hastert roommates. Archived 2015-07-12 at the Wayback Machine , Chicago Sun-Times, Lynne Sweet. November 20, 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ↑ Washington Post, October 7, 2006
- ↑ Charles Babington (13 October 2006). "Foley's Former Top Aide Testifies". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ↑ Associated Press, October 23, 2006