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.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

In 1985, he became chairman of the Minister's Council in the House of Assembly.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

Cannon was chairman to the Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses ), Committee on Rules ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ), and Speaker of the House of Representatives ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ).

He served as speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, chairman of the Virginia Conventions, and the first President of the Continental Congress.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

* 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Willkie asked Martin to take on the task of Republican National Committee chairman, a post that Martin held simultaneously with his House leadership role from 1940 – 1942.

Mayor Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serves as its chairman of the County Board's Finance Committee ; and Micheal Daley, an attorney with Daley & George, a law firm founded by their father Richard J. Daley, that specializes in zoning law and is often hired by developers to help get zoning changes from City Hall.

In 1975, Washington was named chairman of the Judiciary Committee with the election of William A. Redmond as Speaker of the House.

For example, when Sir Francis Burdett, chairman of the London Hampden Club, proposed a resolution in favour of universal suffrage, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot to the House of Commons, his motion found only one other supporter ( Lord Cochrane ) in the entire House.

In 1854, he was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's thirteenth district where he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the long contest of 1859 – 60 and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1860 to 1861.

Writer Rex Stout, chairman of the Writers ' War Board and representative of Freedom House, would rebut the most entertaining lies of the week.

Willis C. Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

William McKinley, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee worked with John Sherman, the senior Republican Senator from Ohio, to create a package that could both pass the Senate and receive the President's approval.

McKinley instead became chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and was responsible for framing a new tariff bill.

Republican Congressman W. R. Green, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged that the statistics of the Bureau of Research of the American Farm Bureau that showed farmers had lost more than $ 300 million annually as a result of the tariff.

Piet Steenkamp, a member of the House of Representatives for the KVP was appointed chairman of a council which was to lay the foundation for a federation of the three parties, and provide a common manifesto of principles.

Laird was re-elected eight consecutive times and he was chairman of the House Republican Conference when Nixon selected him for the cabinet.

He took a leading part in bringing about the Restoration, was chairman of the committee of seven appointed to prepare an answer to the king's letter, and as one of the deputed Lords and Commons he delivered at the Hague the invitation to Charles to return.

In 1961 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, leader of the House of Commons, and chairman of the Conservative Party organization.

He also acted for a time as chairman of the secret committee of the Commons, and drew up the report on the examination of the Jesuit Coleman, secretary to Mary of Modena, the Duchess of York.

He spoke in favour of a radical resettlement of the constitution, and served on a committee, of which Somers was chairman, for drawing up a new constitution in the form of the Declaration of Right ; and he was one of the representatives of the Commons In their conference with the peers on the question of declaring the throne vacant.

Although some historians such as Macaulay have claimed Somers was made chairman of the committee which drew up the Declaration of Right, the committee's report was delivered to the Commons by Sir George Treby ( the chairman always delivered the report to the House ).

He was next employed in January 1690 as chairman of the select committee of the House of Commons on the Corporation Bill, by which those corporations which had surrendered their charters to the Crown during the last two reigns were restored to their rights ; but he refused to associate himself with the violent measures of retaliation which the Whigs on that occasion endeavoured to include in the bill.

Gaunt evidently wanted a ' mirror-image ' as his form of counter-coup and this notion, born in crisis, of one ' speaker ', who quickly also became ' chairman ' and organiser of the Commons ' business, was recognised as valuable and took immediate root after 1376-7.

He is at present the only FTSE 100 chairman to have sat in the House of Commons.

He was the chairman of the Scottish Labour Party in 1984 and was elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election for Newcastle North in Tyneside following the deselection of the sitting Labour MP Robert Brown.

He was best known for being the chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee during which he referred Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chancellor.

He was a junior Labour whip from 1931 – 1934 and was chairman of committees in the House of Commons.

His father was chosen as chairman of the rump of the 23 independent MPs who backed Herbert Asquith in the Liberal Party in the House of Commons whilst the bulk of the Liberal MPs had followed David Lloyd George into the Coalition Liberal party in the November 1918 election.

He was appointed to serve as chairman for the Commons ' aboriginal affairs committee in April 2006.

At that parliamentary inquiry ( 17 July 2008 ) the chairman of the House of Commons ’ Select Committee on Universities condemned the Agency as ‘ a toothless old dog ’ and declared that the British degree classification system had ‘ descended into farce .’ Alderman himself gave evidence to the Select Committee, whose report ( 2 August 2009 ) amounted to a strong endorsement of his views.

Between 1888 and 1891 he also served as deputy chairman of committees in the House of Commons.

In March 1929, he became chairman of the House of Commons Records Committee.

Instead, McGrath was appointed chairman of the Special Committee on the Reform of the House of Commons.

He was the chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Senate-House of Commons committee on the Constitution of Canada, which at that point he co-chaired.

Allen's selection did not comply with the Council's rules for such appointments, and following a critical House of Commons Select Committee report on the management of the opera house she resigned in March 1998, as did the entire board of the opera house, including the chairman, Lord Chadlington.

From 1922 to 1933, he served as chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library, an agency now known as the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. Joining the faculty at Wisconsin, he worked with Commons, and Selig Perlman, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Robert M. La Follette, Jr., E. A. Ross, and Arthur J. Altmeyer ( who became the chairman of the Social Security Board ) who were developing the Wisconsin progressive movement and working on public policy issues of the day.

The Walter Student Commons is named in memory of Robert C. Walter, father of 1963 graduate Robert D. " Bob " Walter, honorary chairman and lead contributor to the current capital campaign being conducted to finance the new addition.

The Lords defended their action, and after two conferences between the Houses had produced no result the Commons ordered Skinner to be put in prison on a charge of breach of privilege ; to this the Lords replied by fining and imprisoning Sir Samuel Barnardiston, the chairman of the company.