In the 1912 World Series, Speaker led the Red Sox to their second World Series title over John McGraw's New York Giants, with the Red Sox winning the eighth and final game ( game two was called on account of darkness and ended in a tie ) after Fred Snodgrass's error — dropping an easy fly ball that would have been the first out — and Fred Merkle's blunder — failing to go after a Speaker pop foul that would have been the second out, after which Speaker promptly singled home the tying run — allowed the Red Sox to tie and win the game in the bottom of the tenth inning.

In a speech on March 30, 2008 in San Francisco's Unitarian Universalist church, Ellsberg observed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't really have the authority to declare impeachment " off the table ".

On the dead run, Speaker leaped with both feet off the ground, snaring the ball before crashing into a concrete wall.

Members then take seats on the appropriate side of the Chamber, rather than entering a lobby, and then the Speaker appoints tellers for each side, unless fewer than five Members are seated on one side, in which case the Speaker calls off the division and declares the result for the side with the greater number of Members.

Since Ender has all but passed Jane off to Miro at this point, due to the previous misunderstanding in Speaker, he must go as well.

Mitch ’ s other friend Bernard ( Vince Vaughn ), who owns a chain of electronic stores named " Speaker City ", throws a party at Mitch's house and hires Snoop Dogg to play so Mitch can get his mind off his ex-girlfriend.

Boston cut the lead to 2 – 1 in the sixth on a triple by Tris Speaker that fell to the ground untouched when Snodgrass and Devore failed to call each other off the ball, and an RBI groundout by Duffy Lewis.

The Red Sox scored two quick runs in the bottom of the third inning against Mathewson when Hooper led off with a triple, Yerkes also tripled, and Speaker reached on an error by Giants second baseman Doyle, allowing Yerkes to score.

Tris Speaker, who was known for playing a very shallow center field, caught a liner by Fletcher with one out in the top of the ninth inning, and proceeded to step on second to double off Wilson.

On May 10, 2006, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ) indicated she was not interested in pursuing impeachment and had taken it " off the table ", reiterating this phrase on November 8, 2006.

In this edition Abse took the opportunity to claim that he had paid off a blackmailer who had been targeting a fellow Welsh MP George Thomas ( Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983 ), on the basis of Thomas's ( closeted ) homosexuality.

Fortune stated he had been off cocaine for the past 2 years and, at the time, he was living out of his car and had put all his remaining money into his solo album " The Death of a Motivational Speaker ".

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Speaker signed with the Washington Senators for, Cobb with the Philadelphia Athletics.

" In the run up to the Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, control frauds like Charles Keating were able to get legislators like Speaker of the House Jim Wright, the Keating Five Senators and majorities in both the US House and Senate to suppress investigations of massive criminality until their Ponzi schemes finally collapses.

"' A section of the letter supporting the FRC and certain other organizations designated as hate groups by the SPLC had signers which included twenty members of the House of Representatives ( including then soon-to-be Speaker John Boehner ), three U. S. Senators, four state Governors, and one state Attorney General.

Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

From among their own members, the Senators elect a President and Vice-President, whose roles are similar to those of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.

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.

Speakers have included: Speaker of the House John Boehner, Representatives Kevin Brady and Greg Walden, Senators Rob Portman and John McCain, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

In the Treen-Lambert general election, the defeated Democratic candidates, including the disappointed Fitzmorris, House Speaker E. L. Henry of Jonesboro, and State Senators Paul Hardy of St. Martinville and Edgar G. " Sonny " Mouton, Jr., of Lafayette, all endorsed Treen.

Wilder was elected Speaker of the State Senate by his fellow Senators in January 1971, which made him the state's Lieutenant Governor.

The blog's popularity has attracted the attention of many Democratic senators, members of Congress, governors and candidates who have posted on the site, including Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, former President Jimmy Carter, and President Barack Obama.

The Legislative Branch consists of the Senate, a body of twenty-five Senators, and is led by Speaker Adam Talbot ( COL ' 12 ), who is in his second term in that position, and Vice Speaker Nate Tisa ( SFS ' 14 ).

FinApp, as it is affectionately known within the Senate, is the only committee to which Senators must be elected by the full body instead of being appointed by the Speaker.

Simpson Thacher lawyers have included U. S. Senators, Solicitors General, a Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Army, Ambassadors, Judges on U. S. Circuit and District Courts and the New York State Court of Appeals, presidents of the American Bar Association, and presidents of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Several Republicans took leadership positions in Washington, particularly Senators William Boyd Allison, Jonathan P. Dolliver, and Albert Baird Cummins, as well as Speaker of the House David Henderson.

Maryland Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski paid tributes to Mitchell on behalf of the United States Senate ; Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid tribute on behalf of the House of Representatives ; Judiciary Chairman Representative John Conyers on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus ; and Governor Martin O ' Malley on behalf of the state of Maryland.

The letter included the signatures of social conservative politicians including twenty members of the House of Representatives ( including then soon-to-be Speaker John Boehner ), three U. S. Senators, four state Governors, and one state Attorney General.

She is one of eight openly LGBT members of the California Legislature, alongside Speaker John Pérez ( D – Los Angeles ), Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano ( D – San Francisco ), Cathleen Galgiani ( D – Livingston ), Ricardo Lara ( D – Bell Gardens ) and Rich Gordon ( D – Menlo Park ), as well as Senators Christine Kehoe ( D – San Diego ) and Mark Leno ( D – San Francisco ).

The Senate is made up of twenty-one Senators and The Queen ( therein represented by the Governor-General ), while the House consists of thirty Members of Parliament ( MPs ) in addition to the Honourable Speaker of the House.

In one game in mid-season when things were not going so well, Speaker signaled for a certain pitcher to be brought in from the bullpen.

Defensively, the old-timer lineup of the Eagles were: Duffy Lewis in left field, Cobb in center field, Texas native Tris Speaker in right field, Frank " Home Run " Baker at third base, Travis Jackson at shortstop, Charlie Gehringer at second base, manager Grimm at first base, Mickey Cochrane at catcher, and former Houston Buffaloes star pitcher Dizzy Dean on the mound.

Tris Speaker, who hit an even. 300 in the 1912 World Series, popped up foul on the first base side, but neither first baseman Merkle nor pitcher Mathewson nor catcher Meyers could get to the ball.

Speaker of the House Tom Foley and others called for a legal challenge to the amendment's unusual ratification.

Hettinger County was named by Tom Hettinger, the great-grandson of Erastus A. Williams, who was Speaker of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives the year Hettinger was established, in honor of his father-in-law Mathias Hettinger.

This move was blocked by Speaker of the House Tom Murphy.

* Warren Chisum, an ally of fellow Republican former Speaker Tom Craddick of Midland, represents Pampa in the Texas House of Representatives and is a 2012 candidate for the Railroad Commission of Texas.

* Tom Foley ( transferred to University of Washington ) – former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

After Maddox's death in 2003, Tom Murphy, the former Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, said of the former governor: " He had a reputation as a segregationist, but he told us he was not a segregationist, but that you should be able to associate with whoever you wanted.

Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes, as they had in June.

On two occasions, University of Georgia School of Law alumni have simultaneously headed all branches of state government: the last occasion was in 2002, when Roy Barnes was Governor, Norman S. Fletcher was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, Tom Murphy was Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and Mark Taylor was President of the Georgia Senate.

In response to being bypassed for his top committee choices as result of his reform advocacy, Gutiérrez charged that then House Speaker Tom Foley was " not a reformer in any sense.

Nethercutt was first elected to Congress in 1994 in a dramatic election in which he unseated the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley.

After Newt Gingrich resigned as Speaker in part because of Republican losses in the 1998 elections, majority leader Dick Armey and majority whip Tom DeLay had opted not to contest the Speaker's chair.

Former Senator Eugene McCarthy, Governor Tom McCall, Senator Mark Hatfield and Oregon House Speaker Richard Eymann were all in attendance.

After Republicans won a majority in the state House in the 2010 elections, Stam lost a vote to become the party's nominee for Speaker of the House to representative Tom Tillis, but was elected Majority Leader instead.

File: Tom foley. jpg | Speaker of the House Tom Foley of Washington

He remained the last sitting House Speaker to be defeated until Tom Foley lost his seat in the Republican landslide of 1994.

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.

Cameron protested and a by-election was held, with Corcoran winning more comfortably, leaving the new Steele Hall LCL government to rely on the casting vote of Independent Speaker Tom Stott.

Tapping into a rich knowledge of local and national politics, Barnicle had unique takes on the ups and downs of luminaries such as Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. John Kerry, and longtime Congressional Speaker of the House Thomas Tip O ' Neill as well as Boston mayors Kevin White, Ray Flynn, and Tom Menino.

Speaker of the House Tom Foley

Thomas Stephen " Tom " Foley ( born March 26, 1929 ) was the 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1989 to 1995.

Documentary film chronicles Mrs. Boggs ' career in politics and features Cokie & Steve Roberts, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Lewis, former House Speaker Tom Foley, and scholars, Dr. Patrick Maney, & Dr. Pamela Tyler.

Likewise, it has been used by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, Senator Charles Grassley, Congressman Steve Buyer, and other Republicans.

When he ran for Governor in 1982, Harris was seen as a long shot candidate, but with the support of the Speaker of the Georgia House Tom Murphy, he was able to win the primary over U. S. Representative Bo Ginn.