I assume Hastert doesn't want the global collapse attached with his name.
Denny Hastert Disses the ‘Hastert Rule’: It ‘Never Really Existed’
by Eleanor Clift Oct 3, 2013 5:45 AM EDT
The former Republican speaker’s ‘rule,’ that you can’t bring legislation to the House floor without a majority of GOP votes, is cited as the reason Boehner can’t end the shutdown. But Hastert tells Eleanor Clift it’s a ‘non-entity’—and ‘if we had to work with Democrats, we did.’
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