Behind the scenes, senior Republicans weighed whether Speaker J. Dennis Hastert could survive the scandal surrounding former Representative Mark Foley.

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Speaking of dirty old Republican Congressmen, it does smell like a cover up when we learn that under-age pages were warned about Foley by GOP Staff as...