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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Boehner: 'I disagree with the editorial board of the Washington Times'
From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hours after telling a Cincinnati radio station the Foley page scandal is House Speaker Dennis Hastert's, R-Illinois, "responsibility," House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a letter to the Washington Times telling them he disagrees with their call for Hastert to resign.

"Had Speaker Hastert or anyone else in our leadership known about Mr. Foley's despicable conduct, I'm confident the Speaker would have moved to expel Mr. Foley immediately and turn him over to the appropriate authorities," Boehner wrote in a letter to the Editor in response to the Times editorial today calling on Hastert to step down.

Rep. Mark Foley, R-Florida, resigned from office last week after it was revealed he had sexually-explicit instant message conversations with congressional pages.

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