* The Speaker, a BBC television series

McAlester is known in political circles for having been the home base of several noted American politicians-U. S. Speaker of the House Carl Albert, who was once a heartbeat from the presidency, and longtime Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe, whose career ended in a series of legal problems.

She narrated BBC2's television series The Speaker in April 2009.

She has appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton ( Donald Sutherland ), on the short-lived television series Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis.

Brand appeared as a judge in the BBC2 series The Speaker in April 2009.

She offered advice, along with John Amaechi and Jeremy Stockwell, in the eight-part series charting the search for " Britain's Best Young Speaker ".

Over the summer and autumn of 2003, a series of protracted negotiations took place between PC and CA " emissaries ": Bill Davis, Don Mazankowski and Loyola Hearn for the PCs and Gerry St. Germain, Ray Speaker and Scott Reid for the CA.

Lorne Jenken High School in Barrhead, Alberta, which won in 1973 and made six other nationals appearances in the 1970s under the direction of current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Ken Kowalski, was considered " the series ' most successful competitors " in the 1985 edition of the Canadian Encyclopedia.

Andrew " Ender " Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels ( Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile ), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s.

In March 1865, Carey published a series of letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Schuyler Colfax, entitled “ The Way to Outdo England Without Fighting Her ”.

The lawmakers, led by new House Speaker Marion Price Daniel, Jr., of Liberty, a moderate and son of a former governor, with active support from Attorney General Hill and Lieutenant Governor Hobby and with verbal encouragement from Governor Briscoe, passed a series of far-reaching reform laws.

Webster University also hosts a speaker series, originally titled The Success to Significance Speaker Series and now known as the Walker Speaker Series, that has featured business professionals including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Edward Whitacre, Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT & T Inc., and August A. Busch IV, President & CEO of Anheuser-Busch.

An early form of the discharge petition was introduced into House rules in 1910 as part of a series of measures intended to check the power of the disliked Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon.

) The series erred, however, by making the explicit statement that Templeton, while resigning from the House and losing his voting privileges, would retain the title of Speaker.

Festival grew to include provocative Guest Speaker and an exciting series that featured work by playwrights under the age of 21.

Salem State University's Speaker Series was established in 1982 as one of the first speaker series in the country.

I did so because I agree with so many here today, that he is the beloved Speaker of all the people of the United States.

And, like many of you here present, I hold as the highlight of all, the occasion of my first meeting with the honorable Speaker of the House.

May the Divine Speaker in Heaven bless this country with Sam Rayburn's continued service here for years to come.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

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.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

Manager Lee Fohl, who had taken over in early 1915, acquired two minor league pitchers, Stan Coveleski and Jim Bagby and traded for center fielder Tris Speaker, who was engaged in a salary dispute with the Red Sox.

Speaker and Coveleski were aging and the Yankees were rising with a new weapon: Babe Ruth and the home run.

One of the first uses of the term green conservatism was by former United States Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in a debate on environmental issues with John Kerry.

At the beginning of the transition, and up until recently, the National Assembly is headed by the MLC with Speaker Hon.

He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

" Speaker Martin concluded that Eisenhower worked too much through subordinates in dealing with Congress, with results, " often the reverse of what he has desired " because Members of Congress ," resent having some young fellow who was picked up by the White House without ever having been elected to office himself coming around and telling them ' The Chief wants this '.

He met Prime Minister Qarase, Finance Minister Ratu Jone Kubuabola, and Military Commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama on the first day of his visit ; meetings with Foreign Minister Tavola and House of Representatives Speaker Ratu Epeli Nailatikau were held later.

In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.

Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.

Cannon wielded the office of Speaker with unprecedented power.

A former savings bank named for him was merged in the 1990s with Industrial Bank of Washington, D. C. A namesake, John Hanson Briscoe, was a circuit judge and Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Malta which consists of the President of Malta and the unicameral House of Representatives of Malta with the Speaker presiding officer of the legislative body.

They form part along with the Speaker of the National Assembly, the legislative offices which under the constitution have the final decision and last word on any legislative matter including the laws of Mauritius.

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Though the Constitution does not mandate it, every Speaker has been a member of the House of Representatives.

Elections are held every four years, with a unicameral parliament of 18 members ( 17 members elected by popular vote and a member, the " Speaker ", appointed by Parliament ).

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.

Speaker ’ s best season came in 1912, as he played every game, leading the American League in doubles with 53, and home runs with ten.

According to Edmond Ludlow on May 7th, about twelve o-clock we went to take our places in the House, Mr. Lenthal our Speaker leading the way, and the officers of the army lining the rooms for us, as we passed through the Painted Chamber, the Court of Requests, and the lobby itself, the principal officers having placed themselves nearest to the door of the Parliament-House, every one seeming to rejoice at our restitution, and promising to live and die with us.

Furthermore, before debate begins, the Speaker may invoke the " Short Speech " rule, under which he or she may set a time limit ( at least eight minutes ) which will apply to every speech.

So far, every Speaker from an opposition party has been a Liberal.

The Speaker of the Council, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader are all ex officio members of every committee.

Its members serve a fixed six-year term, with half of the seats ( and the position of Speaker of the Councillors ) up for re-election every three years.

The office of Speaker has traditionally rotated between the affiliate townships every year dating from at least 1550.

In fact, from the Act of Union in 1801 until 1992, every Speaker elected came from the benches of whichever party was in government at the time of transition ( see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons )-a convention which had, by coincidence, led to alternation between Labour and Conservative Speakers being elected between 1965 ( Horace King, the first Speaker elected from the Labour Party ) and 1983 ( Bernard Weatherill ).

He was Speaker in 1801, and then in every session from 1804 through 1812.

The Speaker of the Council, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader are all ex officio members of every committee.

His death was condoled by leaders from every party whereas many leading politicians attended his funeral in his ancestral village of Rokhri including Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister, Chaudhry Shafaat Hussain, Zila Nazim Gujrat, Gohar Ayub Khan, former Foreign Minister & Speaker of NA, Syeda Abida Hussain, former Federal Minister, and others.

This explains why, in 1965, her daughter the newly installed First Lady laid wreaths to her cousin Speaker Daniel Romualdez y Zialcita's ( a son of Miguel Romualdez ) but none for her ( even after Loreto Romualdez Ramos insisted so every time she met her cousin Imelda ); no one could tell where the bones of Remedios went.

Randolph represented Henrico County in every assembly of the House of Burgesses from 1684 to 1698, was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1698, and was the Clerk of the House from 1699 to 1702.