MSNBC is reporting that Speaker Hastert will speak outside his home, and that the press conference “could come as soon as half an hour from now — sometime in the 1 o’clock eastern hour.”
The Hotline on Call blog has more:
In a press conference scheduled for noon CT in Illinois, House Speaker Dennis Hastert plans to accept some measure of responsibility for failing to discover Rep. Mark Foley’s misconduct with pages, a House official said this morning. “He is taking responsibility because the buck stops with him,” the official said.
Hastert won’t resign “because that would be giving into the Democrat partyâs best wish,” the official said.
He is expected to make several announcements, including one about revisions to the page program.
