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   0 ---> [( 10-02 ) 04:00 pdt washington -- law enforcement officials said sunday that the fbi had begun a preliminary inquiry into whether former rep mark foley broke any federal laws when he reportedly exchanged sexually explicit e-mail messages with underage congressional pages, as leaders of both parties demanded new inquiries.]
   1 ---> [washington ( reuters ) - the fbi is assessing whether former rep mark foley broke any laws when he sent sexually explicit e-mails to a male teen-age congressional page and leaders of both parties demanded full-scale investigations into another untimely scandal for the republicans.]

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   0 ---> [" since the communications appear to have existed for three years, there should be an investigation into the extent there are persons who knew or had possession of these messages but did not report them to the appropriate authorities," said the letter from hastert to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [hastert also wrote that, because some of the more sexually explicit instant messages were written in 2003," there should be an investigation into the extent there are persons who knew or had possession of these messages but did not report them to the appropriate authorities."]

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   0 ---> [top democrats in the house and the senate also demanded investigations, and rep nancy pelosi of san francisco, the democratic house leader, called on republican leaders to be questioned under oath by the ethics committee about their handling of the case.]
   1 ---> [" central to the investigation is immediately questioning, under oath, the house republican leadership," house democratic leader nancy pelosi wrote in a letter to lawmakers on the committee.]

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   0 ---> [the initial messages, though not overtly sexual, alarmed the boy's parents and led to foley being questioned by the clerk of the house and the republican chairman of the board that oversees the page program.]
   1 ---> [hastert then acknowledged that his aides had, in fact, referred the matter to the house clerk and to the congressman who was chairman of the board that oversees the page program.]
   2 ---> [hastert acknowledged over the weekend that his aides had, in fact, referred the matter to the house clerk and to the congressman who was chairman of the board that oversees the page program, and that foley had been ordered to cease contact with the youth.]

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   0 ---> [" since that resolution unanimously passed, republican leaders have admitted to knowing about foley's outrageous behavior for six months to a year, and they chose to cover it up rather than to protect these children," pelosi said, asking that the inquiry start within 10 days.]
   1 ---> [house minority leader nancy pelosi said house republican leaders knew of the foley allegations and" chose to cover it up rather than to protect these children."]
   2 ---> [" republican leaders have admitted to knowing about mr foley's outrageous behavior for six months to a year, and they chose to cover it up rather than to protect these children," she wrote.]

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   0 ---> [jennifer crider, a spokeswoman for pelosi, said hastert seemed" more concerned by who revealed the republican leadership's cover-up of foley's internet stalking" than he was about the pages.]
   1 ---> [jennifer crider, press secretary to house democratic leader nancy pelosi of california, questioned hastert's efforts, saying he" seems more concerned by who revealed the republican leadership's cover-up of mr foley's internet stalking of an underage child than he was about ensuring the children entrusted to the house were protected."]

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   0 ---> [hastert also wrote gov.]
   1 ---> [hastert also sent a letter to florida gov.]

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   0 ---> [jeb bush of florida asking for an investigation by the florida department of law enforcement.]
   1 ---> [jeb bush on sunday requesting that he" direct the florida department of law enforcement to conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct."]

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   0 ---> [associates of foley said he was apparently in seclusion in florida.]
   1 ---> [in one of the e-mails, foley said he was in pensacola.]

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   0 ---> [but in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales, hastert urged the justice department to look into who knew about the content of any sexually explicit messages involving foley" and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]
   2 ---> [" as speaker of the house, i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, ( r-ill. ), wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]

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   0 ---> [earlier sunday, white house counselor dan bartlett said he expected a criminal investigation.]
   1 ---> [    earlier sunday, white house counselor dan bartlett said a criminal investigation shall be expected.]

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   0 ---> [the administration was unaware of the foley allegations until last week, he said.]
   1 ---> [bush's top advisers, called the allegation" shocking" and said the president was unaware of the matter until it was revealed publicly last week.]

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   0 ---> [" the white house and the president were just as shocked as everyone else," bartlett said on cnn's" late edition."]
   1 ---> [bartlett spoke on abc's" this week," cnn's" late edition" and cbs'" face the nation."]
   2 ---> [bartlett spoke on abc's" this week, cnn's" late edition" and cbs'"face the nation."]
   3 ---> [" that's the best place for it to handled," bartlett said on cnn's" late edition" program.]

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   0 ---> [top house republicans have said they were aware months ago of e-mail contact between foley and a teenage male page, but that they had no knowledge of sexually explicit messages that have subsequently come to light.]
   1 ---> [top house republicans acknowledged on saturday they had been aware of e-mail traffic between foley and a former teen-age page, but that they were not aware of the sexually explicit messages to other pages revealed last week.]

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   0 ---> [senate minority leader harry reid said the case should not be handled by the republican-led congress.]
   1 ---> [reid said the case should be handled outside congress.]

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   0 ---> [" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee."]
   1 ---> [" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee, and the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately."]
   2 ---> [said senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada:" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee and the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately."]

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   0 ---> [" congress must not pass the buck on investigating this cover-up," she said.]
   1 ---> [&ldquocongress must not pass the buck on investigating this cover-up,&rdquo pelosi wrote.]

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   0 ---> [" if they knew or should have known the extent of this problem, they should not serve in leadership," shays said sunday.]
   1 ---> [" if they knew or should have known the extent of this problem, they should not serve in leadership," the connecticut congressman christopher shays told the new york times.]

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   0 ---> [foley's case was referred to the house ethics committee on friday, and republican leaders who labeled foley's actions" abhorrent" called for a criminal investigation saturday.]
   1 ---> [the house ethics committee has been directed to investigate foley's actions, and house republican leaders also called for a criminal investigation into his contacts with pages.]

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   0 ---> [" the allegations against congressman foley are repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house of representatives knew," senate minority leader harry reid ( d-nev. ) said.]
   1 ---> [senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada called the case" repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house of representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year."]
   2 ---> [&ldquothe allegations against congressman foley are repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house of representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year,&rdquo reid said.]
   3 ---> [reid in a statement said the allegations against foley were" repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year."]

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   0 ---> [" the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately."]
   1 ---> [" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee, and the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately."]
   2 ---> [senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada said the attorney general should open a" full scale investigation immediately."]
   3 ---> [said senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada:" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee and the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately."]

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   0 ---> [house minority leader nancy pelosi ( d-calif. ) said in a letter to the ethics committee yesterday that the gop bigwigs should swear to what they knew.]
   1 ---> [house minority leader nancy pelosi ( d-calif. ) is pressing the house ethics committee to get the sworn testimony of house republican leaders about what they knew about foley's communications with underage former pages.]

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   0 ---> [the case could have fallout for western new york rep tom reynolds, the head of the national republican congressional committee, who is facing a reelection challenge.]
   1 ---> [in the early hours of a fast-moving weekend, the leader most directly in the firing line was tom reynolds, the republican congressional committee chair who is already fighting for his political life in a close re-election fight in upstate new york.]

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   0 ---> [congressional pages have been part of washington politics since the 1820s.]
   1 ---> [congressional pages, a staple of washington politics since the 1820s, are high school students who serve as temporary gofers in the house and senate.]

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   0 ---> [each year, high school students who have competed for the honor don navy jackets and white shirts and serve as gofers in the house and senate.]
   1 ---> [congressional pages, a staple of washington politics since the 1820s, are high school students who serve as temporary gofers in the house and senate.]

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   0 ---> [the program, including classes and dormitory life, nearly ended in the early 1980s due to alleged sexual misconduct and drug use.]
   1 ---> [the program nearly ended in the early 1980s due to alleged sexual misconduct and drug use.]

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   0 ---> [washington -- law enforcement officials said sunday that the fbi had begun looking into whether former rep mark foley broke any federal laws when he exchanged sexually explicit e-mail messages with underage congressional pages.]
   1 ---> [washington - the fbi is looking at whether former florida rep mark foley's computer exchanges with underage house pages broke any laws, an fbi spokesman said late sunday.]

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   0 ---> [meanwhile, leaders of both parties asked for inquiries into the lurid scandal that has added to the political peril for house republicans.]
   1 ---> [a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]
   2 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert asked sunday for a federal investigation into the case _ a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]

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   0 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert, r-ill., requested that the justice department investigate not only foley but also who knew about the messages without reporting them to authorities.]
   1 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert, r-ill., requested sunday that the justice department conduct an investigation into foley's electronic messages to teenage boys.]

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   0 ---> [foley, r-fla., quit friday after it was disclosed that he sent e-mails to a former congressional page and sexually suggestive instant messages to other high school pages.]
   1 ---> [foley, r-fla., quit congress on friday after the disclosure of the e-mails he sent to a former congressional page and sexually suggestive instant messages he sent to other high school pages.]
   2 ---> [foley, 52, a six-term florida republican, resigned on friday after abc news reported he sent messages containing references to sexual organs and acts to current and former congressional pages.]

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   0 ---> [foley, 52, a five-term congressman, was cochairman of the congressional missing and exploited children's caucus.]
   1 ---> [foley, who is 52 and single, was co-chairman of the congressional missing and exploited children's caucus.]
   2 ---> [mark foley, who was co-chairman of the congressional caucus on missing and exploited children, could now face charges under some of the laws he helped enact.]

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   0 ---> [democrats, who need to gain 15 seats in the nov.]
   1 ---> [democrats need a net gain of 15 seats to regain control of the chamber they lost in 1994.]

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   0 ---> [7 elections to take control of the house, pounced on the scandal.]
   1 ---> [because of the proximity to the november 7 elections, mr foley's name is expected to stay on the ballot.]

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   0 ---> [but rep thomas reynolds of new york, head of the house republican election effort, said saturday he told hastert months ago about inappropriate messages to a teenage boy.]
   1 ---> [but representative thomas reynolds, head of the house republican election effort, said saturday he had told hastert months ago about concerns foley sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy.]

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   0 ---> [but hastert's office said it hadn't known the e-mails were anything more than" over-friendly."]
   1 ---> [hastert's office said, however, it had not known the e-mails were anything more than" over-friendly."]

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   0 ---> [nancy pelosi of california, the house democratic leader, pressed the house ethics committee sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days.]
   1 ---> [pelosi pressed the committee on friday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days.]
   2 ---> [house democrats demanded that the chamber's ethics committee produce a preliminary report on the matter within 10 days.]

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   0 ---> [john murtha, d-pa., said it was outrageous the house gop leadership hadn't acted sooner.]
   1 ---> [john murtha, a democrat from pennsylvania, said it was" outrageous" that the republicans had not acted earlier against mr foley.]

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   0 ---> [" it really makes me nervous that they might have tried to cover this up," he said.]
   1 ---> [" it really makes me nervous that they looked like they tried to cover it up."]

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   0 ---> [fbi spokesman richard kolko said the fbi is" conducting an assessment to see if there's been a violation of federal law."]
   1 ---> [fbi spokesman stephen kodak said the bureau was conducting an" assessment to determine if there has been any violation of federal law" involving rep mark foley of florida who resigned on friday amid allegations he sent inappropriate messages to young people working at the u.s.]

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   0 ---> [white house counselor dan bartlett called the allegations against foley shocking, but said president bush hadn't learned of foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy and instant messages to other boys before the news broke last week.]
   1 ---> [white house counsellor dan bartlett called the allegations against foley shocking, but said u.s.]

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   0 ---> [" we need to make sure that the page system is one in which children come up here and can work and make sure that they are protected."]
   1 ---> [" we're going to get to the bottom of this, the leadership is, and that's very important because we need to make sure the page system is one in which children can come up here and work and make sure they are protected," bartlett said on cnn's" late edition."]

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   0 ---> [in his letter to attorney general alberto gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]
   1 ---> [but he also requested that the department investigate who had specific knowledge of the e-mails" and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter - be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]
   1 ---> [" i request that the scope of your investigation include any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter, be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives, or anyone outside the congress," hastert said in the letter sent last evening.]
   2 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter?]

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   0 ---> [in the letter, hastert acknowledged that some of foley's most sexually explicit instant messages were sent to former house pages in 2003.]
   1 ---> [the second e-mails, hastert wrote, were sexually explicit instant messages to other pages that hastert said he was unaware of until they were disclosed in media reports in recent days.]

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   0 ---> [patrick mcdonald, 21, now a senior at ohio state university, said he eventually learned of" three or four" pages from his 2001-2002 class who were sent such messages.]
   1 ---> [patrick mcdonald, a former house page who is now a senior at ohio state university, said yesterday that he learned of" three or four" pages from his 2001-02 class who received sexually suggestive messages from foley, the washington post reported in today's editions.]

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   0 ---> [washington?]
   1 ---> [washington?]

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   0 ---> [in his letter to attorney general alberto gonzales, hastert, r-ill., acknowledged that some of foley's most sexually explicit instant messages were sent to former house pages in 2003.]
   1 ---> [" as speaker of the house, i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]

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   0 ---> [senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada called the foley case" repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house of representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year."]
   1 ---> [senate minority leader harry reid, democrat of nevada, agreed, saying," the allegations against congressman foley are repugnant, but equally as bad is the possibility that republican leaders in the house of representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a congressional seat this election year."]
   2 ---> [senate democratic leader harry reid earlier in the day urged gonzalez to investigate foley's actions and those of republican leaders, who he said ignored warnings about the florida representative" to preserve a congressional seat this election year."]

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   0 ---> [reid said the case should be handled outside congress.]
   1 ---> [senate minority leader harry reid said the case should not be handled by the republican-led congress.]

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   0 ---> [hastert, in his letter to gonzales, said foley's electronic messages crossed state lines, so" there should be a complete investigation and prosecution of any federal laws that have been violated."]
   1 ---> [hastert said" since the communications involved interstate communications there should be a complete investigation and prosecution of federal laws that have been violated."]
   2 ---> [' since the communications involved interstate communications there should be a complete investigation and prosecution of federal laws that have been violated,' rep hastert said on sunday.]

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   0 ---> [be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives, or anyone outside the congress."]
   1 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter _ be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]

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   0 ---> [mr foley's name will remain on the ballot in the race against tim mahoney, a democrat.]
   1 ---> [but foley's name will remain on the ballot, and all votes cast for him will go to the new candidate.]

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   0 ---> [california democrat jane harman, a leading member of the house intelligence committee, said the democratic leadership should have been told about the allegations 10 months ago and that republicans must conduct a thorough investigation.]
   1 ---> [" i think the democratic leadership should have been told 10 months ago," said jane harman, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee.]

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   0 ---> [it is unclear whether any laws were broken in the exchanges.]
   1 ---> [    the fbi also said it is looking into whether any federal laws have been violated in the scandal.]

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   0 ---> [in a statement, house speaker dennis hastert said his staff was told about the e-mail exchange last fall but was assured that the messages were" overfriendly" rather than of a sexual nature.]
   1 ---> [hastert's office said the clerk of the house was assured that the nature of the e-mail exchange was not of a sexual nature, although it was characterized as" overly friendly."]

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   0 ---> [hastert originally said that he had learned of the matter only last week.]
   1 ---> [hastert asserts that he only recently was apprised of the matter.]

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   0 ---> [washington - republican leaders in the us house of representatives should be questioned under oath on how much they knew of former congressman mark foley's inappropriate e-mails to teenage male congressional pages, house democratic leader nancy pelosi said on sunday.]
   1 ---> [house democratic leader nancy pelosi said house republican leaders should be questioned under oath on how much they knew of foley's e-mails to male pages, the teen-agers who answer telephones, deliver documents and run other errands for members of congress.]
   2 ---> [nancy pelosi, house democratic leader, said republican leaders should be questioned under oath on how much they knew of mr foley's e-mails.]

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   0 ---> [pelosi also said the house ethics committee should start its investigation into the matter immediately.]
   1 ---> [central to the ethics committee investigation is" immediately questioning, under oath, the house republican leadership," pelosi said.]

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   0 ---> [other democrats said house republican leaders should step down if they were aware that foley, who resigned from the house on friday, was sending inappropriate messages and did nothing about it.]
   1 ---> [democrats and at least one republican said house republican leaders should step down if they were aware that foley was sending inappropriate messages and did nothing about it.]

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   0 ---> [pelosi of california, in a letter to the house ethics committee, said it was" abhorrent" that house republican leaders knew of foley's contacts with a teenage page for" for six months to a year... and that apparently no action was taken to protect these underage children".]
   1 ---> [" the fact that mr foley was engaging in this behavior with underage children, that the republican leadership knew about it for six months to a year and has characterized the inappropriate behavior as ` overly friendly' and ` acting as a mentor' and that apparently no action was taken to protect these underage children is abhorrent."]

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   0 ---> [house republican leaders on saturday called for a criminal investigation into foley's actions.]
   1 ---> [the house passed a resolution calling for an investigation into foley's behavior sept.]

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   0 ---> [staff for the republican leader, speaker dennis hastert of illinois, said they had been alerted to an exchange between foley and one congressional page in the fall of 2005 but were not told about any sexually explicit e-mails or text messages, according to a statement issued by the speaker's office.]
   1 ---> [dennis hastert, the republican leader of the house, said at the weekend his office had known for a year about what he called an" over-friendly" e-mail between mr foley - who resigned on friday - and a 16-year-old boy page, but had not been told about any sexually explicit content.]

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   0 ---> [soliciting an underage person for sex online is a federal crime.]
   1 ---> [&ldquounder laws that congressman foley helped write, soliciting sex from a minor online is a federal crime.]

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   0 ---> [hastert also sent a letter to florida governor jeb bush, asking him to direct state law enforcement officials to investigate the matter.]
   1 ---> [hastert also sent a letter to florida gov.]

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   0 ---> [i think the democratic leadership should have been told 10 months ago," representative jane harman of california, said on" fox news sunday."]
   1 ---> [" there's been a republican investigation, for 24 hours, of republican activity," she said on the" fox news sunday" program.]

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   0 ---> [foley, who is 52 and single, was widely believed to be gay by his capitol hill colleagues, but they refrained from questioning him about his sexual orientation.]
   1 ---> [mr foley, 52, who is single and long rumoured to be gay, left capitol hill on friday without speaking to reporters.]

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   0 ---> [" the members of the house of representatives, the leadership appear to be very aggressive in pursuing this investigation," bartlett said on abc's" this week."]
   1 ---> [" there is going to be, i'm sure, a criminal investigation into the particulars of this case," said white house counsel dan bartlett - who called the allegations" shocking".]

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   0 ---> [this followed calls earlier sunday by the white house and democratic leaders for a criminal probe.]
   1 ---> [the white house and democratic leaders in congress also called for a criminal inquiry.]

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   0 ---> [attorney general and florida gov.]
   1 ---> [hastert's letters to gonzales and florida gov.]

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   0 ---> [7 midterm elections in which are defending their majority.]
   1 ---> [7 elections.]

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   0 ---> [rep mark foley, the florida republican who resigned friday, improves democrats' chances to regain a majority in the house.]
   1 ---> [mark foley, 52, a deputy republican whip, resigned last friday following the revelations.]

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   0 ---> [until his resignation, he co-chaired the congressional missing and exploited children's caucus.]
   1 ---> [foley, who is 52 and single, was co-chairman of the congressional missing and exploited children's caucus.]

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   0 ---> [this weekend, speaker hastert asked u.s.]
   1 ---> [under fire from democrats, house speaker dennis hastert also asked sunday that u.s.]

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   0 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert asked sunday for a federal investigation into the case?]
   1 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert asked sunday for a federal investigation into the case _ a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]

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   0 ---> [a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]
   1 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert asked sunday for a federal investigation into the case _ a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]
   2 ---> [washington ( ap ) - house speaker dennis hastert requested sunday that the justice department conduct an investigation into former representative mark foley's electronic messages to teenage boys - a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]
   3 ---> [on sunday, house speaker dennis hastert requested that the justice department conduct an investigation into foley's electronic messages to teenage boys a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [white house counselor dan bartlett called the allegations against foley shocking, but said president bush hadn't learned of foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy and instant messages to other boys before the news broke last week.]
   1 ---> [bush hadn't learned of foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy and instant messages to other boys before the news broke last week.]

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   0 ---> [be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]
   1 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter _ be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]

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   0 ---> [hastert also sent a letter to florida gov.]
   1 ---> [house of representatives speaker dennis hastert sent a letter to u.s.]

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   0 ---> [washington ( reuters ) - a scandal over a u.s.]
   1 ---> [washington ( reuters ) - top congressional democrats said on sunday the u.s.]
   2 ---> [washington ( reuters ) - president george w.]
   3 ---> [washington ( reuters ) - u.s.]

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   0 ---> [the scandal has plenty of political implications for president george w.]
   1 ---> [president george w.]

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   0 ---> [attorney general alberto gonzales requesting a justice department investigation of foley's conduct with current and former teens who work for the house as part-time interns, or pages.]
   1 ---> [attorney general alberto gonzales requesting a justice department investigation of foley's conduct with current and former house pages.]
   2 ---> [" as speaker of the house, i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   3 ---> [dennis hastert, speaker of the house of representatives, at the weekend sent a letter to alberto gonzales, the attorney general, requesting a justice department investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages.]

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   0 ---> [some democrats called for republican leaders to step down.]
   1 ---> [they are now arguing about how much they knew - but the democrats and some republicans have called for the party's congressional leaders to step down.]

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   0 ---> [representative peter king, a new york republican, said house leaders" have to get all the facts out as quickly as possible."]
   1 ---> [" we should be rushing to get all the facts out," said rep peter king ( n.y. )]

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   0 ---> [foley was co-chairman of the missing and exploited children caucus.]
   1 ---> [mr foley - a member of the house of representatives caucus on missing and exploited children - apologised when announcing his resignation on friday.]
   2 ---> [the republican leadership's inaction permitted mr foley to remain chairman of the house caucus on missing and exploited children, democrats said.]
   3 ---> [foley, 52, was a member of the house ways and means committee and co-chairman of the house's missing and exploited children caucus.]

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   0 ---> [instead, hastert's aides merely referred alexander to the clerk of the house, who notified rep john shimkus, r-ill., chairman of the house page board.]
   1 ---> [he also said alexander took the matter to the clerk of the house, and that an investigation was conducted by the clerk and rep john shimkus ( r ) of illinois, head of the house page board.]

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   0 ---> [    washington, oct.]
   1 ---> [    beijing, sept.]

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   0 ---> [the fbi is examining the messages to see if any law has been broken.]
   1 ---> [the agency is" conducting an assessment to determine if there has been any violation of federal law," the fbi's stephen kodak said.]

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   0 ---> [" i request that the scope of your investigation include any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter - be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives, or anyone outside the congress," he wrote.]
   1 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter?]

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   0 ---> [" i think you have to look and see what they knew and what they did about it," dewine said during the debate on nbc's" meet the press."]
   1 ---> [senate, said on nbc's" meet the press."]

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   0 ---> [washington - the fbi is assessing whether former rep mark foley broke any laws when he sent sexually explicit e-mails to a male teen-age congressional page and leaders of both parties demanded full-scale investigations into another untimely scandal for the republicans.]
   1 ---> [leaders of both parties on sunday demanded full-scale investigations into another untimely scandal for the republicans.]

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   0 ---> [" the fbi is conducting an assessment to determine if there has been any violation of federal law," fbi spokesman stephen kodak said on sunday.]
   1 ---> [washington &mdash the fbi is examining former rep mark foley's e-mail exchanges with teenagers to determine if they violated federal law, an agency spokesman said sunday.]

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   0 ---> [top house republicans acknowledged on saturday that they had been aware of e-mail traffic between foley and a former teen-age page, but that they were not aware of the sexually explicit messages to other pages revealed last week.]
   1 ---> [top house republicans have said they were aware months ago of e-mail contact between foley and a teenage male page, but that they had no knowledge of sexually explicit messages that have subsequently come to light.]

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   0 ---> [" the fbi is conducting an assessment to determine if there has been any violation of federal law," fbi spokesman stephen kodak said on sunday.]
   1 ---> [washington &mdash the fbi is examining former rep mark foley's e-mail exchanges with teenagers to determine if they violated federal law, an agency spokesman said sunday.]

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   0 ---> [house of representatives speaker dennis hastert sent a letter to u.s.]
   1 ---> [hastert also sent a letter to florida gov.]

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   0 ---> [attorney general alberto gonzales requesting a justice department investigation of foley's conduct with current and former house pages.]
   1 ---> [jeb bush on sunday requesting that he" direct the florida department of law enforcement to conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages."]

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   0 ---> [washington oct 1, 2006 (ap)? ]
   1 ---> [washington oct 1, 2006 (ap)? ]

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   0 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert requested sunday that the justice department conduct an investigation into foley's electronic messages to teenage boys a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]
   1 ---> [house speaker dennis hastert asked sunday for a federal investigation into the case _ a lurid scandal that has put house republicans in political peril.]

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   0 ---> [" as speaker of the house, i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]
   2 ---> [but in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales, hastert urged the justice department to look into who knew about the content of any sexually explicit messages involving foley" and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [foley, r-fla., quit congress on friday after the disclosure of the e-mails he sent to a former congressional page and sexually suggestive instant messages he sent to other high school pages.]
   1 ---> [foley, 52, a six-term florida republican, resigned on friday after abc news reported he sent messages containing references to sexual organs and acts to current and former congressional pages.]

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   0 ---> [be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]
   1 ---> [the scope of the investigation, hastert wrote, should include" any and all individuals who may have been aware of this matter - be they members of congress, employees of the house of representatives or anyone outside the congress."]

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   0 ---> [nancy pelosi of california, the house democratic leader, pressed the committee on sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days.]
   1 ---> [pelosi pressed the committee on friday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days.]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [bartlett spoke on abc's" this week," cnn's" late edition" and cbs'" face the nation."]
   1 ---> [" the white house and the president were just as shocked as everyone else," bartlett said on cnn's" late edition."]

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   0 ---> [" his immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system," the leaders said.]
   1 ---> [dennis hastert, the republican speaker of the house of representatives, yesterday condemned mr foley's actions as" abhorrent" and" an obscene breach of trust", adding:" his immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system."]

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   0 ---> [the fbi is examining whether former rep mark foley's e-mail exchanges with teenagers violated federal law.]
   1 ---> [washington &mdash the fbi is examining former rep mark foley's e-mail exchanges with teenagers to determine if they violated federal law, an agency spokesman said sunday.]

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   0 ---> [that, in turn, has raised the age-old washington question of who knew about the exchanges, and when they knew it.]
   1 ---> [" certainly anyone in the republican leadership, any member of the congress who knew anything about this should tell exactly what they knew and when they knew it."]

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   0 ---> [mr foley's e-mail exchange with the page from louisiana was more suggestive than overtly sexual - asking the boy what he wanted for his birthday and asking him to send a digital photograph of himself.]
   1 ---> [in one, foley asked the boy to send him a picture of himself and asked him what he wanted for his birthday.]

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   0 ---> [" congressman reynolds's inaction in the face of such a serious situation is very troubling and raises important questions about whether there was an attempt to cover up criminal activity involving a minor to keep it from coming to light before election day," said karen finney, spokesman for the democratic national committee.]
   1 ---> [democratic national committee spokeswoman karen finney questioned" whether there was an attempt to cover up criminal activity involving a minor to keep it from coming to light before election day."]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [hastert's office said yesterday that an aide to the speaker met with alexander's chief of staff in the fall of 2005 to discuss the matter.]
   1 ---> [hastert's staff said that the matter was brought to reynolds's attention in the spring of this year.]

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   0 ---> [" despite the fact that i had not seen the e-mails in question, and mr alexander told me that the parents didn't want the matter pursued, i told the speaker of the conversation mr alexander had with me," reynolds said in his statement.]
   1 ---> [alexander told me that the parents didn't want the matter pursued, and i told the speaker of the conversation mr alexander had with me," reynolds continued.]

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   0 ---> [bush's top advisers, called the allegation" shocking" and said the president was unaware of the matter until it was revealed publicly last week.]
   1 ---> [the administration was unaware of the foley allegations until last week, he said.]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee and the attorney general should open a full-scale investigation immediately," senate democratic leader harry reid of nevada said.]
   1 ---> [" the alleged crimes here are far outside the scope of any congressional committee."]

CLUSTER 116
   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [executive foreign and national editor andrew s.]
   1 ---> [andrew s.]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]

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   0 ---> [the teenager called the e-mails" sick."]
   1 ---> [the boy told associates the request was" sick".]

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   0 ---> [" i hereby request that the department of justice conduct an investigation of mr foley's conduct with current and former house pages to determine to what extent any of his actions violated federal law," hastert, r-ill., wrote in a letter to attorney general alberto gonzales.]
   1 ---> [in his letter to gonzales on sunday, hastert asked the justice department to investigate" who had specific knowledge of the content of any sexually explicit communications between mr foley and any former or current house pages and what actions such individuals took, if any, to provide them to law enforcement."]