The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Since then, the position of Speaker is held by Hon.

Under Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, the president may transfer the presidential powers and duties to the vice president, who then becomes acting president, by transmitting a statement to the Speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate stating the reasons for the transfer.

Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.

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.

However, if after two months no candidate has obtained it, then the King dissolves the Cortes Generales and calls for new elections with the endorsement of the Speaker of Congress.

Reed served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and then from 1895 to 1899, as well as being Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee.

The Presidential Succession Act establishes the order as: the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate and then the fifteen Cabinet Secretaries in order of that Department's establishment.

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.

The party then succeeded in electing Nathaniel P. Banks as Speaker of the House in the 34th Congress.

This runs from the Vice President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then through the Cabinet secretaries in a sequence specified by Congress.

The new Speaker is then sworn in by the Dean of the House, the chamber's longest-serving member.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

Kerr wrote that " nothing else of relevance " took place between the two men, but by Scholes's account, he accused Kerr of bad faith for making an appointment to receive the Speaker, and then not waiting to hear from him before dissolving Parliament.

::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.

:: If, at the time when under subsection ( a ) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

The Act is also controversial because it provides that if a cabinet officer becomes Acting President, he serves only until a new Speaker of the House or a new President Pro Tempore of the Senate is chosen, who would then replace him as Acting President.

She was then elected to the House of Commons in 1972, whereafter she served as a minister of the Crown until 1980, when she became the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The county is named for John Adair, then Speaker of the House in Kentucky and later Governor of Kentucky ( 1820-1824 ).

So, I say, Mr. Speaker, God bless you and keep you for many years not only for this body but for the United States of America and the free world.

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.

*" Mr Speaker, you are the anecdote to verbal diarrhoea-" — Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, UK

" commanded the Speaker to leave the Chair, and told them they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good, crying out You are no longer a Parliament, I say you are no Parliament.

" In criticizing Newt Gingrich for secretly having an affair with a staffer while Gingrich, as House Speaker, was simultaneously impeaching President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, DeLay said, " I don ’ t think that Newt could set a high moral standard, a high moral tone, during that moment .... You can ’ t do that if you ’ re keeping secrets about your own adulterous affairs.

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.

In a Parliament debate some days later, Jürgen Gehb, CDU Speaker for law politics, said that " we will try to continue working with you, but with minimal contact to your backside ".

Compton had a reputation for being a lax Speaker, once telling an MP who complained of being interrupted, " No sir, you have a right to speak, but the House have a right to judge whether they will hear you.

* Speaker B: But you are ignoring the fact that President Roberts lied in his Congressional testimony!

International Speaker Mark Victor Hansen says time has proven 2 of the laws / principles to be most important: 1 ) The MasterMind principle / process and 2 ) " Know very clearly where you want to go ".

“ The Speaker of the Commons there said that he and Speakers from all around the Commonwealth look to you as their leader and their inspiration as someone who has conducted himself very professionally.

In the heated debate in 1985 over a Congressional seat in Indiana between Republican Richard D. McIntyre, whom the Indiana Secretary of State had certified as winning a seat in the 99th Congress, and Democrat Frank McCloskey, in which the House declined to seat McIntyre, McEwen declared on the House floor, " Mr. Speaker, you know how to win votes the old fashioned way — you steal them.

In June 2006, Poilievre was caught using foul language directed at colleagues in a committee meeting ( muttering " fuck, you guys " under his breath ), making unparliamentary " up yours " arm gestures in the Commons during a parliamentary session, and was accused of mocking the Speaker of the House of Commons.

" Amongst other, Mr. Speaker, two things do great hurt in this place, of the which I do mean to speak: the one is a rumour which runneth about the house and this it is, " Take heed what you do, the queen's majesty liketh not such a matter.

Criticism was aimed at Feherty for this suggestive comment about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid: From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U. S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.

In February 2009, Quinnipiac University conducted a poll in which they asked :“ If the Democratic primary for governor were being held today and the candidates were Dan Malloy, Susan Bysiewicz and Jim Amann, for whom would you vote ?” Of the Democrats who responded, 44 % said they would vote for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, 12 % said they would vote for Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy and 4 % said they would vote for James Amann, former Speaker of the House.

The Fundamental Law was also amended, making it more democratic, electing the entire Executive Committee by the PNC, instead of just the Chairman, separating the post of the Speaker of the PNC from the Chairman of the Executive Committee and affirmed the authority of the Executive Committee over the army.

This is contrasted with the Speaker of the House, who has always been chosen from the Members of the House of Representatives, and as a member of the House is entitled to participate in debate vote on all measures, not just when ties occur, although customarily the speaker votes only rarely, and often to make or break a tie.

With Gwynn having 3, 141 hits, it was just the second time in Major League history that a pair of teammates each had 3, 000 career hits ; Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker had previously played many games together for the 1928 A's.

The Commons, led by their Speaker, would listen from the Bar of the Lords, just outside the Chamber.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

Republican congressman Bob Livingston had been widely expected to become Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the next Congressional session, then just weeks away, until Flynt revealed the affair.

In an article in the July 1952 issue of SPORT, Speaker recounted how Bill Veeck hired him to be a coaching consultant to Larry Doby, who in 1947 had become the American League's first black player and just the second player to cross the baseball color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Speaker Conolly remains today one of the most widely known figures ever to be produced by an Irish parliament, and not just for his role in Parliament but also for his great wealth that allowed him to build one of Ireland's greatest Georgian houses, Castletown House.

Commons debates could theoretically continue even if just one MP and the Speaker were present.

The quorum for votes on legislation in the House of Lords is 30, but just three of the 753 peers, including the Lord Speaker, are required to be present for a debate to take place.

Traditionally, the majority and minority leaders represent urban or large suburban areas, just as the Speaker of the House is usually from a city.

In 2007 Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives ; she held the position for just under four years.

( Young had stepped down from the Shadow Cabinet just before the election for a new Speaker and had been a member of the Cabinet in the Conservative government during the previous parliament.

The crisis continued into early April 2008, with Adeang stating that he would consider the Supreme Court's ruling as " just an opinion ", and Keke responding that the Supreme Court, not the Speaker, had the jurisdiction to determine a member of Parliament's eligibility.

" It had been known in Speaker for the Dead that Jane had combined with the fantasy game, however — just not how or why.

Huang was placed third on the Kuomintang's legislators-at-large candidate list for the December 2004 legislative election, just behind Legislative Speaker Wang Jing-pyng and Deputy Legislative Speaker Chiang Pin-kung, and he subsequently won a seat in the sixth Legislative Yuan.

The former Deputy Speaker of the House Michael Morris held this seat for the Conservatives from its creation in 1974 until 1997, when Tony Clarke defeated Morris in a surprise result ( one of many in the Labour landslide of that year ) to gain the seat for Labour with a majority of just 744.

In the Northeast, at 04 ° 47 ' S, 072 ° 26 ' E, there are a number of drying cays, the biggest of which, Big Speaker Reef, just reaches the high water mark.

Rubi Rivlin, for his first official visit as Knesset Speaker, chose the Arab-Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, just south of the Galilee.

There, when William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the richest man in Ireland was just beginning to build Castletown House, near Dublin in County Kildare, he met Galilei.

After the 1964 election when Labour's majority in the House of Commons was just four seats, he was persuaded by the Government to accept the position of Deputy Speaker.