On Hardball, DeLay falsely claimed GOP "demanded that [Foley] resign from Congress"

SUMMARY: Discussing whether Sen. Larry Craig will resign following his guilty plea for misdemeanor disorderly conduct, Tom DeLay falsely claimed that Mark Foley "resigned from Congress because the Republicans demanded that he resign from Congress," when sexually explicit Internet messages he had sent to former congressional pages became public. In fact, Dennis Hastert stated in October 2006 that "Foley resigned almost immediately upon the outbreak of this information, and so we really didn't have a chance to ask him to resign."

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