Speaker Rayburn has not limited his leadership as a statesman to his direction of the House in the Speaker's chair.

They must complete coursework beyond that of Certified Lay Speaker and then can be assigned to provide pastoral leadership to a church by the District Superintendent.

If the Speaker's party loses control of the House in an election, and if the Speaker and Majority Leader both remain in the leadership hierarchy, that would mean that they would become the Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively.

Gingrich's hold on the leadership was weakened significantly by that and several other controversies, as he faced a caucus revolt in 1997, and after the Republicans lost House seats in 1998 ( although retaining a majority ) he did not stand for a third term as Speaker.

* Green, Matthew N. The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership ( Yale University Press ; 2010 ) 292 pages ; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives ; focuses on the period since 1940.

* Jim Tucker, the first Republican to hold the leadership position of Louisiana House of Representatives Speaker in more than a century.

* Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ( D ) leadership PAC, Team Majority, was fined $ 21, 000 by federal election officials " for improperly accepting donations over federal limits.

Parties are only allowed to ask a predetermined number of questions based on the size of their caucus, and must ask their questions in a specific order, predetermined by their party leadership for that day on a list given to the Speaker.

He was the first Catholic to be elected Speaker, and some critics complained that this religion sometimes showed in his leadership qualities.

During his second term in the House, O ' Neill was selected to the House Rules Committee where he proved a crucial asset for the Democratic leadership, particularly his mentor, fellow Boston congressman and later Speaker, John William McCormack.

Through the leadership of Speaker Sergio Osmeña and Floor Leader Manuel L. Quezon, the Rules of the 59th United States Congress was substantially adopted as the Rules of the Philippine Legislature.

Then Philippine Resident Commissioner Manuel L. Quezon encouraged Speaker Sergio Osmeña to run for the leadership of the Senate, but Osmeña preferred to continue leading the lower house.

In the legislature each delegate writes, proposes and debates their legislation, along with fellow delegates ’ legislation, and for those delegates interested in leadership the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate are leadership positions available in the legislature.

The program also promotes leadership by operating under the direction of both elected and appointed student leaders ( Speaker of the house, President of the Senate ).

APPOINTED OFFICERS: Voting positions of leadership include the Speaker Pro-Tem or President Pro-Tem for each chamber.

Under the leadership of Speaker Louis-Joseph Papineau, the Parti canadien ( renamed Parti patriote in 1826 ) initiated a movement of reform of the political institutions of Lower Canada.

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert favored Dreier for the position, presumably because Dreier has consistently adhered to the views of the Republican leadership and would have been willing to relinquish the title immediately should DeLay be able to return to the Majority Leader position.

For four years, from 1962 to 1966, Hoyer was a member of the staff of United States Senator Daniel Brewster ( D-Maryland ); also on Senator Brewster's staff at that time was Nancy Pelosi, who would later become a leadership colleague of Hoyer as she served as Minority Leader and Speaker of the House.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a new leadership post, Assistant to the Speaker, in 2006 so that Van Hollen could be present at all leadership meetings.

The Assembly Speaker and Senate Majority Leader control the assignment of committees and leadership positions, along with control of the agenda in their chambers.

However, Speakers Joseph William Martin, Jr. and Sam Rayburn did seek the Minority Leader post to retain the House party leadership, as their parties swapped control of the House in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Coached for three seasons by Ron Rothstein, their combination of veteran leadership in Debbie Black, Elena Baranova and Sandy Brondello as well youth in Ruth Riley and Sheri Sam, lead them to the playoffs in 2001, but lost in the first round to the New York Liberty in 3 games.

Under his leadership, the committee conducted the famous McClellan Hearings, more commonly known as the Valachi Hearings which investigated organized crime activities across America and centered on Teamsters head and mafia associate, Jimmy Hoffa in 1957 and other leading mafia figures of the era such as Sam Giancana of Chicago.

The townspeople assemble for the Cornpone Meetin ', where parson Marryin ' Sam leads a celebration of Dogpatch's founder, " Jubilation T. Cornepone ", a bumbling Confederate general whose leadership was more beneficial to the North than to the South.

He was in the group when it fused with the Revolutionary Socialist League to form the Revolutionary Communist Party but grew closer to the leadership of the Fourth International, effectively the leadership of the American Socialist Workers Party, and their representative in Britain, Sam Gordon.

While the elected local officers were the nominal leaders of the strike at its outset, Bridges led the planning of the strike along with his friend Sam Kagel, the rank-and-file opposition to the two proposed contracts that the leadership negotiated and the membership rejected during the strike, and the dealings with other unions during and after the four-day San Francisco General strike after " Bloody Thursday " on July 5, when police aided the Waterfront Employers Association in trucking cargo from the pierheads to the warehouses through the union's picket line.

Sam Barry's players benefited greatly from his leadership and teaching ability.

Sam couldn't find peace with his life, so he was asked by Storm to join her X-Treme X-Men, a group of X-Men operating outside of Professor X's leadership.

In October 2011 he was presented by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, led by Sam Nunn and Ted Turner, the Amartya Sen Award ‘ for intrepid and creative leadership in creating momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons ’.

By 1975, the Patriots drafted Steve Grogan, who would become a fixture with the club for 16 seasons, and under the leadership of coach Chuck Fairbanks, New England's offense became more run-oriented, led by Sam Cunningham.

As the leadership contest was underway, Hamutenya was dismissed from his position as Foreign Minister by President Sam Nujoma on 24 May, because Nujoma accused him of inciting division within the ranks of the party in the countries Omaheke region.

Julie and Sam fell in love during the kidnapping and decided to get married while Sam and Georgie took joint leadership of the gang.

Under the artistic leadership of Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage and now Josie Rourke, the theatre has a diverse artistic policy that includes new writing, contemporary reappraisals of European classics, British and American drama and small-scale musical theatre.

Manager Sam Allardyce said he gave Robinson the armband as he had been a very vocal member of the team and showed good leadership qualities.

Sam was named the State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers ’ 1997 Public Citizen of the Year because of his leadership role in fighting for responsible and fair state budgets, particularly on behalf of health, mental health, senior, addiction and education services.

Although some of the Bengali leadership hoped for and expected an Indian military operation at the earliest, a view also shared by some Indian officers, Indian army eastern command decided in the present condition such a move was unadvisable, and a full attack could only take place after November 15, 1971 at the earliest, only after deliberate and extensive preparations, which was further elaborated to the Indian cabinet by Gen. Sam Manekshaw.

Under the leadership of members such as Nicholas Saul, Bill Howlett, Patsy the Barber, Slobbery Jim, " Cowlegged " Sam McCarthy, and Sow Madden the gang was known for its reputation of unprovoked murder and sabotaging ships and other property, regardless of value, along the New York waterfront.

* 1957-Tony Accardo retired from the day-to-day leadership of the Chicago Outfit and appointed Sam " Momo " Giancana to oversee these operations of the crime syndicate.

In 1956 the Register-Pajaronian won the Pulitzer Prize for an investigative series by photographer Sam Vestal, working under the leadership of its longtime editor Frank Orr and with assistance of Watsonville Police Chief Frank Osmer.

He was an ineffective chairman, with a small weak staff, who proved unable to lead his committee, was frequently at odds with the House leadership, and was inclined to write the President little letters " informing " on Speaker William B. Bankhead and Sam Rayburn. p 81

Shaw said that though Kirk may not have the speed or skills to rival players like Chris Judd, Gary Ablett, Sam Mitchell and Sydney Swans teammate Adam Goodes, he certainly had the toughness, strength, fitness, consistency and leadership skills to be considered as one of the AFL's best leaders since his debut.

A year later, he convened a meeting in Stockholm between the SWAPO leadership ( Sam Nujoma, Hage Geingob and Hidipo Hamutenya ), and a delegation of " whites " from Namibia to discuss developments in the independence process.