From CNN Ticker Producer Alex Mooney

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Majority Whip John Boehner, R-Ohio, says House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, assured him he had taken care of the matter involving former Rep. Mark Foley's, R-Florida, inappropriate e-mails to a congressional page, when he first learned of the situation last spring.

"I believe I talked to the speaker, and he told me it had been taken care of, and, and, and in my position, it's in his corner, it's his responsibility," Boehner told the Mike McConnell Show on Cincinnati's WLW 700, this morning. "The Clerk of the House who runs the page program, the Page Board, all report to the speaker, and I believe that it had been dealt with."

Boehner said he first heard of the emails during a brief conversation on the House floor last spring with Rep. Rodney Alexander, the GOP Louisiana Congressman who sponsored the page, but did not learn specifics of the e-mails' content.

"There were no specifics about the nature of the contact, so at the time, the conversation didn't raise any alarms," Boehner said.