Speaker of the house

LOCAL COVERAGE NOW OF CAMPAIGN 2012. WE'VE LEARNED A DEMOCRATIC STATE LAWMAKER IS SHELLING OUT THOUSANDS IN AN EFFORT TO GET RHODE ISLAND'S HOUSE SPEAKER -- A FELLOW DEMOCRAT -- VOTED...

All through the years, I, I never did prayers much in advance— sometimes the night before, the day before if I thought the morning was going to be very complicated and that I wasn’t going to have...

Since Minnesota became a state, there have been more than 50 people to hold the position of speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. The speakers have come from all corners of the...

It was a very communal atmosphere. That day, I had been assigned flag duty, which meant that I had to deliver flags that had flown over the Capitol to Members’ offices in the office buildings. And...

The struggle to achieve equal rights for women took a huge step forward on Aug. 18, 1920 when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment, guaranteeing all American women...

BOTHERE. BUT FIRST OUR SPEAKER, JOHN BOEHNER. IN WATCHING WHAT IS GOING ON IN TERMS OF THESE TALKS SHOULD THE AMERICAN PEOE WORRY THAT MATTERS HAVE HIT THE SKIDS WITH THE TALKS OR IS THIS A POLITICAL...

Madam Speaker, on behalf of, I trust, the whole House, and certainly on behalf of the government, I congratulate you on the high office to which you have been elected. Yes, over the years, you have...

[Pat Martin] Well, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and the Province of Quebec, for putting in place emergency measures for-- to deal with the possibility...

The original Speaker’s press conferences were usually fifteen minute Q&A right before the House went into session. They were not on camera, and they were just usually direction of what the...

Members said, “We’re not going to leave. We’re not going to be a government in flight. We’re going to stay here” and the police then stepped in, “No, we really want you to leave.” Well, and this was...