Sentences with phrase «elected house speaker»

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The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

Of the 150 current members of the lower house, 124 were first elected to office after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver became speaker.

Klarides is a creature of the House — she was first elected in 1998 — and some say she would rather be speaker than governor should Republicans take the majority.

The Republican was first elected to his southern Wisconsin House seat in 1998, and was elected by his colleagues as speaker in October 2015.

Lawmakers reelected Paul Ryan as House speaker, choosing the Wisconsin Republican with a fraught history with Trump to serve as the president - elect's chief legislative partner.

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).

Making public corruption cases is always tough for prosecutors — there generally isn't tangible evidence like drugs waiting to be seized, quips Nyhan, the Dartmouth government professor — but elected officials still make tempting targets for ambitious prosecutors — particularly those as prominent as a state House speaker.

The only House member not to be present for high - profile votes this week on a major budget deal and to elect a new speaker produced an awfully good excuse Thursday: Rep. Gregory Meeks (D - N.Y.) said in an afternoon release that he suffered a «mild» heart attack this week.

He was optimistic that the House could not be rubber - stamped for allowing the Speaker and governor to come from the same zone of the state pending the time a new speaker would be elected.

But as they look for a replacement, it is important to remember that according to the rules of the House, the speaker - and this is true - does not have to be a member of the House of Representatives - doesn't have to be even a politician or elected to any office.

At Thursday's forum, Beebe told the audience of more than 30 people that Texas House Democrats and moderate Republicans wielded their influence in electing and re-electing Straus as speaker.

After the Republicans re-took the House in last month's midterm elections, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio was elected speaker - designate.

Lord Phillips is now head of the judiciary, and soon the House of Lords will elect its own speaker for the first time.