( Speaker viewpoint in middle of action )

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Sam, and Mr. Democrat, at one and the same time.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members who desire to do so may extend their remarks at this point in the record ; ;

I should like at this time, Mr. Speaker, to pay warm tribute to Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Charles Merz on the occasion of their retirement from distinguished careers in American journalism.

* Honorary Doctor of Laws, and Commencement Speaker at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland in May 2005

* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and Commencement Speaker at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles on May 5, 2007

Some countries have alternative provisions for senior appointments: In Sweden, under the Instrument of Government of 1974, the Speaker of the Riksdag has the role of formally appointing the Prime Minister, following a vote in the Riksdag, and the Prime Minister in turn appoints and dismisses cabinet ministers at his / her sole discretion.

At the time of Cannon's election the Speaker of the House concurrently held the chair of the Rules Committee, which determined under what rules and restrictions bills could be debated, amended, and voted on, and in some cases whether they would be allowed on the floor at all.

" Mr. Speaker, among all the people of the universe, I know none who have shown so much zeal for the liberty of their country, as the English, at this time, have done.

* Speaker series ( co-sponsored with NSS Seattle ) every first Sunday of the month at 7pm in the Red Barn classroom at the Museum of Flight.

Notably, as First Speaker of the House, Jaja Wachuku received Nigeria's Instrument of Independence-also known as Freedom Charter-on October 1, 1960, from Princess Alexandra of Kent, The Queen's representative at the Nigerian independence ceremonies.

This was accomplished at a meeting of the House in which most of the members were absent, and over which Randolph was presiding in the absence of the Speaker.

Randolph had been Speaker at the time.

" Former American Psychological Association President Dr. Nicholas Cummings was the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 NARTH Conference and said that he had a " high regard " for NARTH and considered it an honor to be invited to speak at NARTH's scientific gathering.

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake on Bono's behalf.

* Speaker for the Dead at Worlds Without End

Startled Democrats protested heatedly, issuing screams, threats, and insults at the Speaker.

In 2006, the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa, 4th President of Sri Lanka Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, twice Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremasinghe and the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka W. J. M. Lokubandara were guest speakers at a UC event.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( right ) with Vice President Dick Cheney behind President George W. Bush at the 2007 State of the Union Address making history as the first woman to sit behind the podium at such an address.

Many at the time believed that President Richard Nixon would resign because of the Watergate scandal, allowing Speaker Carl Albert to succeed.

The group tried and failed to unseat Willie Brown, who was serving as Speaker of the Assembly of the California State Assembly at the time, by making a deal with assembly Republicans.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

At one end of the room sits a large chair, for the Speaker of the House.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the office of Speaker began to develop into a very powerful one.

The Speaker of Parliament stood next in line to the President, but the constitution was changed at the end of 2002: now the premier is next in line.

Three important Republican politicians came from Platte County: former Governor Jim Geringer, who served from 1995 – 2003 ; former State Representative Harold Hellbaum, who served from 1963 – 1977 and was Speaker of the House at the end of his tenure, and Robert Mills Grant, a rancher and former rodeo performer who was a specialist on laws relating to the branding of livestock, represented the county in the Wyoming House from 1983 to 1992.

To the north of the Members Dining Room lies the House of Commons Library, and at the northern end of the east front is the projecting Speaker, s House, home of the Speaker of the House of Commons ( United Kingdom ), to the south of the Members Dining Room lies various committee rooms followed by House of Lords Library, projecting from the southern end of the facade is the Lord Chancellor's House home of The Lord Chancellor.

At the beginning and end of every day the House sits, the Speaker of the House enters and leaves the House with the Serjeant-at-Arms walking in front of them, with the Serjeant-at-Arms carrying the mace on their right shoulder.

ELECTED OFFICERS: The Speaker of the House and President of the Senate are elected along with other major offices at the end of each year's session to serve for the following year.

Usually, the Speaker attempts to end a disruption, or " calls members to order ," by repeating " Order!

If the Speaker finds that a member is making irrelevant remarks, is tediously repetitive, or is otherwise attempting to delay proceedings, he or she may order the member to end the speech.

Thus, the Speaker may disallow a closure, which seeks to end debate and immediately put the question to a vote, if he or she finds that the motion constitutes an abuse of the rules or breaches the rights of the minority.

There is no convention in Australia that Speakers should resign from Parliament at the end of their term: two Speakers ( Makin and Scholes ) have become Cabinet ministers after having been Speaker.

In the end, Young was not elected as Speaker, with the House instead choosing Labour MP Michael Martin for the role.

A motion to suspend the rules is in order on Mondays and Tuesdays and towards the end of a session of Congress and may only be made by the Speaker of the House or their designee, though it is customary for committee chairs to write the Speaker requesting a suspension.

An optometrist from Matthews, North Carolina, Black was elected to 11 ( non-consecutive ) terms in the House of Representatives, and served as Speaker of the House from January 1999 through the end of 2006, when scandal forced him to give up the leadership post.

) He was elected the Speaker of the House from 1773 to its end in 1775.

Along with Senators Edward Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan and U. S. House Speaker Tip O ' Neill, Carey led efforts to end the violence in Northern Ireland and support peace in the region.

As the era of old south Democratic control, symbolized by iconic personalities Herman Talmadge and Georgia Speaker of the House Tom Murphy drew to an end, new Republican leaders took their place.

" By the end of the century, several Speaker texts circulated throughout the United States, including McGuffey's New Juvenile Speaker, the Manual of Elocution and Reading, the Star Speaker, and the popular Delsarte Speaker.

The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

After becoming Speaker of the House in January 2007, Pelosi held firm against impeachment, notwithstanding strong support for that course of action among constituents in her home district.

The Governor-General then signs the bill, sending messages to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who notify their respective Houses of the Governor-General's action.

* when the President transmits his written declaration to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate declaring that he is able to resume the powers and duties of his office and four days elapse without the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet restating their declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, if the incapacity was declared under section 4 of the 25th Amendment ( action by Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet ).

On June 25, 2008 Speaker Pelosi sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC ) to use its emergency powers to take immediate action to curb excessive speculation in energy markets, and to investigate all energy contracts.

Concerned about the damage to the LNP's reputation in the electorate, in March 2011 a motion was moved at the party's Federal Divisional Council " that this Council notes the actions of the Member for Fisher in accepting nomination by the Labor Party for the position of Deputy Speaker and competing for this position in opposition to Mr Bruce Scott MP nominated for this position by the coalition parties and expresses its concern over the ongoing negative publicity directed at the Member for Fisher and the resulting damage to the Liberal National Party and requests the Applicant Review Committee to take note and take action as deemed appropriate.

As a member of the opposition, Slipper's acceptance of Labor's nomination as Speaker was considered a " renegade " action and opposition leader Tony Abbott threatened to expel him from the Liberal caucus for his action.

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor William Tryon had prorogued the assembly for other reasons, and there was apparently no action taken to request a special session, despite public protests and opposition to the act by Speaker John Ashe.

The Speaker of the House, next in line, is her political enemy, Republican House Speaker Nathan Templeton ( Donald Sutherland ); he chooses to resign his House position and accept the temporary acting presidency under the 25th Amendment, and uses his one day in office to take an action that Allen would never have countenanced.

In a letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the English House of Commons, written shortly after the storming of the town, Cromwell explained why he did not fully invest the town — an action that would have left his divided command vulnerable to an attack by a relieving force and a simultaneous sortie by the garrison — but rather concentrated his troops on the south side of Drogheda for a swift assault.

In 2010, Adelson donated $ 1 million to American Solutions for Winning the Future, a political action committee ( PAC ) supporting Republican former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Glafkos Klerides, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, constitutionally took over the powers of the President in the absence of Makarios, but agreed to be sworn in as President before Gennadios, an action which Klerides's detractors suggest was indicative of a pro-coupist orientiation on his part at the time.