Sentences with phrase «as speaker of the house»

«My job here as speaker of the House is to help make sure that Congress is an institution that we're proud of and that's what I'm focused on,» Ryan said.

Remember, Santorum got fired from Pennsylvania as their senator and Gingrich got fired as the speaker of the house.

Silver is the New York assemblyman who served as speaker of the house for two decades until Monday at noon.

For only the third time in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly, a legislative leader intends to serve a third two - year term as speaker of the House of Representatives.

First, as the first woman to serve as speaker of the House, Pelosi is concerned that «the bulk of people who get hurt — the main Democratic casualties in the court map — are women, namely Reps. Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter.

The Glasgow North East MP faces calls to resign as speaker of the House of Commons over the latest parliamentary expenses row.

For example, we used public statements of the Senate majority and minority leaders as well as the speaker of the House to cobble together approximate positions.

As expected, Rep. Robert L. Livingston, R - La., was chosen to succeed retiring Rep. Newt Gingrich, R - Ga., as speaker of the House, a selection that must be confirmed by a vote of the full House in January.

The cabinet minister who acts as speaker of the House of Lords and oversees the hearings of the Law Lords.

Not exact matches

Pelosi, a former House speaker, is a favorite target of Republicans, particularly as the GOP fights against a possible blue wave this fall.

Democrats sense a growing opportunity to unseat Republicans as part of a national wave that could put the House speaker's gavel back in their party's hands.

Mr. Drake is a digital automation advocate for private equity as he lobbied the US Congress on the JOBS Act since 2011 He represented the US Commerce Department at the EU Commission in Brussels & Rome in 2012, was invited to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C., &, was a speaker at the UK Parliament in 2013.

Note that non-Christian Mormons have been prominent as governors and in Congress, including the current speaker of the House.

Lots of what Gingrich did as speaker was based on paving the way for the Republicans to regain the White House in 1996.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

The speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords both agreed that Parliament support the campaign, as it did last year.

It counts Billy Graham and former speaker of the House Dennis Hastert as alumni.

And to her sorority sisters in the Alpha Phi house at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, where she had lived for the last two years, she served as health coordinator, recruiting speakers to lecture on a variety of subjects, such as alcoholism or depression.

When I asked him about that later, he said the former speaker has sought his input on housing issues — a topic on which Lazio has some expertise, thanks to his position as chair of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opporhousing issues — a topic on which Lazio has some expertise, thanks to his position as chair of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community OpporHousing and Community Opportunity.

Clinton will be at UAlbany on March 2 as part of the «World Within Reach» speaker series, which has also featured retired Gen. Colin Powell, former White House political director Karl Rove, former Gov. Howard Dean, and most recently, TV interviewer extraordinaire Barbara Walters.

In this connection, there is another issue to tackle — rulings of Speakers in the past will be captured to serve as guidance and precedents for smooth operation of the House.

Speaker Paul Ryan reinstated the Rev. Patrick Conroy as the chaplain of the House of Representatives, after the chaplain sent him a letter rescinding his forced resignation and daring the speaker to fire him.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

The conference runs through the end of the day Saturday and features such other speakers as Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian - American woman in the House, and activist attorney Zephyr Teachout.

Michael Steel, who served as an aide to former House speaker John Boehner, said: «Senator Schumer and Representative Pelosi walked in holding a pair of deuces and the president handed them a jackpot.

Though speeches were generally brief — in part as a kindness to those who attended the outdoor ceremony on a bitterly cold day — each speaker managed to hit on that idea of fairness as the goal for the next four years, whether by creating and preserving affordable housing or ensuring that «equal pay for equal work» isn't merely a slogan.

Historically, this independence has been come at a cost - the Speaker of the House of Commons was historically involved in many disputes between Parliament and the King, and a number of Speakers were executed as a result.

Cuomo, the evening's first speaker, blended his trademark boasting about New York's storied progressive past with a showy display of the executive power he has wielded for nearly eight years and a subtle reminder that as Washington goes, he's been an outsider — at least since he served as Bill Clinton's Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Hatfield has the backing of Newt Gingrich, who employed her as a policy aide when he was House speaker in the 1990s.

Reading the letter on the floor of the House on Tuesday, the speaker, honourable Mathew Kolawole (APC Kabba Bunu) said the Governor cited paucity of funds in the state as some of the reasons why the state government could not conduct local government election.

Pelosi is in line to become the speaker again should Democrats win enough seats in the House of Representatives next month, a prospect that appeared unlikely, but has gained strength as Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been rocked by the release of a crude and vulgar video tape.

The speaker who was represented by Kwara House of Assembly» leader, Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, said the media through its investigative role has the power to ouster Presidents and Prime Ministers as it is in so many cases across the globe.

Sheldon Silver, who lost his job as one of the most powerful political posts in New York, is the fourth state house speaker to face legal trouble over the past year.

Also expected to grace the event as guest speakers are Mr Tokunbo Talabi, Managing Director, Superflux International limited and Hon Desmond Elliot, Chairman Committee on Tourism, Lagos State House of Assembly.

Mr Green told the Commons: «I find it extraordinary that in a matter which concerns e-mails between two members of this House, and the fact that they may be private, the house authorities didn't approach me to establish facts, but have approached the metropolitan police and have taken as the basis for a speaker's statement, the police's own version of events - and only their verHouse, and the fact that they may be private, the house authorities didn't approach me to establish facts, but have approached the metropolitan police and have taken as the basis for a speaker's statement, the police's own version of events - and only their verhouse authorities didn't approach me to establish facts, but have approached the metropolitan police and have taken as the basis for a speaker's statement, the police's own version of events - and only their version.

Dennis Hastert, who was the longest - serving Republican speaker of the House, intends to plead guilty as part of an agreement in a case where he is accused of skirting banking laws and lying to the federal investigators.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney proudly displayed the county's certificate of occupancy at the new venue Tuesday morning as U2's «Beautiful Day» played on house speakers.

«As the only Chinese speaker in the House of Commons, a former diplomat, British trade commissioner [for] China and the former founder chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, I see part of my role in parliament to offer an informed perspective on that very important country,» he said.

Imam was also the special adviser on media to Tambuwal as then speaker of the House of Representatives, between 2011 and 2015.

While that has been the case since Ryan was named the 2012 vice presidential nominee, the interest in using him as a campaign asset has only increased since he became speaker of the House, said Rep. Greg Walden, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The former speaker of the House will pick up right where he left off as a political commentator on the right - leaning Fox New Channel.

Hon. Monday Ovwigho Igbuya has been impeached by members of the House, and appointed the lawmaker representing Okpe constituency, Sheriff Oborevwori as the new speaker.

This seems to be a common tradition across many legislatures and houses of parliament, there is a «speaker» (a bit of a misnomer as this person is more of a listener), and the actual person doing the...

«With the first two months of the PDP administration in 1999 a speaker of the house of assembly was removed just for age falsification, various senate presidents were impeached, governors were impeached as well as a serving inspector general of police,» he said.

In 1991 he served a term as majority Whip and was deputy speaker of the house in 1993.

Stakeholders in the party such as the National Assembly lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district, senator Dino Melaye, former speaker Kogi House of Assembly representing Lokoja 1, Umar Imam Ahmed, current Kogi Apc chairman Hardy Ametuo were all absent at the meeting.

«The Afenifere should be reminded that the minister of transportation had served his state and Nigeria in several capacities, including serving as the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly for eight years during which he also served as the chairman Conference of Speakers.

Williams, who is currently focused on running for City Council speaker, said as Cuomo helped resurrect a lucrative affordable housing tax credit for rich developers, the city and state have lost thousands of rent - regulated apartments.

Speakers have a role both as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party could be elected as Speaker with the support of a fraction of members of the majority party).

The winner will battle former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, and Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is now running for the Senate as an independent candidate, after dropping out of a battle with Rubio for the GOP nomination.