We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

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On June 1 2006 Hastert became the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history surpassing the record previously held by fellow Illinoisan Joe Cannon who held the post from November 1903 to March 1911. 0%


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He is the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history. He represented Illinois's 14th congressional district for twenty years 1987 to 2007. Instead he resigned his seat mid-session and became a lobbyist.