"Not with any great intensity, perhaps, but Speaker insisted that they keep searching the area until they were certain he had left."

THE STATEMENT was never made on the record, off the record, in any way," insisted Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley.

Speaker after speaker insisted today that only volunteers could achieve the conference's goal of helping two million vulnerable children by the year 2000.

The Speaker and his friends insist that he learned from this year of overload that he must slow down.

Speaker after speaker insists that your campaign must be founded on your "core principles" (beliefs, vision, whatever.

The Speaker insisted that Administration efforts were failing.

"Why did the Speaker insist on bringing up this bill when he knew it was going to fail?"

The 64-year-old Speaker of the House, the first ever from this part of the country, insists he has no thought of retirement and says he finds the "rewards still outweigh, by a long shot, the problems."

Speaker had insisted that they bring the flycycles inside with them.

The Speaker of the House, J. Dennis Hastert, insisted today that Republicans still saw an opportunity to reach a bipartisan agreement on shoring up Social Security.