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Paul Ryan Pulls Hastert House Portrait

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Disgraced speaker guilty in hush-money case.

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SAUL LOEB

Rep. Paul Ryan kicked off his tenure as House speaker by removing a portrait of disgraced predecessor Dennis Hastert from the building. The portrait of Hastert, who pleaded guilty in a hush-money case last week, was replaced by early 20th-century speaker Frederick H. Gillett. “The speaker believed it was appropriate to rotate in a different portrait,” a spokeswoman said.

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