Sentences with phrase «speaker of the house in»

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

Terrance Carroll, a former speaker of the House in Colorado, helped push a bill on teacher evaluations to passage in 2010 with the support of some increasingly influential advocacy groups.

Not exact matches

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

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

In other words, if she's going to get another title, she'd rather it be speaker of the house.

Google Home and Amazon Echo devices can broadcast your voice to other smart speakers connected in your house (except, of course, for the Echo or Home you're using to make the command).

The smart speaker can stream music in any room of the house, is powerful enough to provide beats for a party and can be used with other Sonos speakers to create stereo - quality surround sound.

Att a Texas Tribune event in November, Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas house of representatives, said he had other, more urgent concerns than the bathroom bill.

In another post, Hunter reiterated that in the past Ron Paul voted for GOP Reps. John Boehner (Ohio), Dennis Hastert (Illinois), and Newt Gingrich (Georgia) for speaker of the HousIn another post, Hunter reiterated that in the past Ron Paul voted for GOP Reps. John Boehner (Ohio), Dennis Hastert (Illinois), and Newt Gingrich (Georgia) for speaker of the Housin the past Ron Paul voted for GOP Reps. John Boehner (Ohio), Dennis Hastert (Illinois), and Newt Gingrich (Georgia) for speaker of the House.

Many of these technologies are used to power Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant housed within the Echo smart speaker, which was unveiled in 2014 to compete against Apple's Siri.

-- and over 25 million smart speakers were sold last year alone, with Apple soon to release its version, the HomePod, meaning a good percentage of American homes have or will have an internet - connected assistant waiting patiently for someone in the house to say their wake word.

The chaplain for the House said a top aide to the House speaker had told him last month his departure had been requested in part because of a prayer about the Republican tax law and because of his Catholic faith.

But the calculus is different for the speaker of the House, Richard Corcoran, a likely candidate for governor in a crowded Republican field.

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.

The former House speaker announced his views on cannabis had evolved and, in support of legalization, he was joining the board of directors of New York - based marijuana company Acreage Holdings.

Today's panelists, speakers and moderators — covering topics ranging from the BC economy in 2030, the housing crisis, Indigenous rights, and campaign mapping in advance of the 2017 election — include:

Baer too, has a history of passing around «whoa if true» rumors: Last year, he was a key figure in spreading the notion that US Rep. Kevin McCarthy was having an extramarital affair with a woman in Congress when McCarthy was a candidate to become speaker of the House.

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.

The speaker of the House of Commons has reignited the gay marriage debate by suggesting marriage will only really be equal when same sex unions can take place in...

She features many of those tipped to be in the running to become the UK's first female bishop, including Rev Lucy Winkett, rector of St James's Piccadilly; Rev Rose Hudson - Wilkin, speaker's chaplain to the House of Commons; and the Venerable Sheila Watson, archdeacon of Canterbury.

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.

Gingrich, the former presidential candidate and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that after the attacks, «We had an opportunity to stand up and say, «You know, it is true - some people in the United States might make a film that is totally whacked out.

His claim was supported by Archbishop Issam John Darwish, Melkite bishop of Zahle, in Lebanon, who was one of four speakers invited to the charity's event at the House of Lords to give personal accounts of Christian persecution in their countries.

But what the heck, he's in a different sanctum now, the one the late speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, called, «the highest theater anyone plays in upon this Earth today.»

-- THEN VERMONT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE RALPH WRIGHT, IN 1992, ARGUING AGAINST THE STATE WILDLIFE COMMISSION»S DECISION TO REINTRODUCE MOOSE HUNTING IN VERMONT AFTER A 96 - YEAR HIATUS

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.

The amendment states that if, for whatever reason, the vice president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries decide that the president is «unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,» they can simply put that down in writing and send it to two people — the speaker of the House and the Senate's president pro tem.

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

To answer the second part of your question about other seating arrangements: The British House of Commons is set up in a rectangle, with each party on one side of the rectangle and the speaker sitting in between the two aisles.

In the recording, Temer allegedly agrees to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of House — now under arrest on corruption charges — who is widely believed to possess incriminating information on much of the political elite.

The bill would require eight - year caps on leadership posts in the Assembly and Senate — applying to the temporary president of the Senate, speaker of the Assembly and the minority leaders of both houses.

Speaker after speaker in the House of Commons debates on Article 50 declared that, although he or she voted Remain and believed Brexit was not in the national interest, the referendum vote represents the ultimate expression of democracy and therefore the «will of the people» must be obeyed.

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 HousIn 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 Housin the past will be captured to serve as guidance and precedents for smooth operation of the House.

Deputy speaker Natascha Engel has provoked a Twitter storm after being pictured in the House of...

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.

One day he was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords and (oh, the irony) chairman of the Lords committee for privileges and conduct which investigates breaches of conduct by peers the next he was the disgraced «sneer of the realm» allegedly prone to bad - mouthing political colleagues whilst indulging in adulterous, illicit, drug - fuelled sex sessions.

In a scoop worthy of its deceased predecessor, the News of the World, the Sun on Sunday ran a five - page exclusive at the weekend alleging that Lord Sewel, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, had been «caught on video snorting cocaine with a pair of # 200 - a-night hookers».

On 5 December, 60 speakers took part in a debate on the size of the house and agreed a motion that its size should be reduced, and methods should be explored by which this could be achieved.

The speaker of the House, Taking Dogara confirming the receipt of the letter promised to read it to members on the floor on Tuesday in Abuja.

Derek Simpson, Unite's joint general secretary has today spoken out in support of Michael Martin, speaker of the House of Commons and accuses the Tories of a witchhunt based on snobbery.

Also at 6 p.m., the National Action Network, in conjunction with the NAACP, the New York Urban League and the Hispanic Federation hold a forum for New York City Council speaker candidates, National Action Network House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

«You in California have the opportunity to help return Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House of Representatives,» Polis said.

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.

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.

In a scoop worthy of its deceased predecessor, the News of the World, the Sun on Sunday ran a five - page exclusive at the weekend alleging that Lord Sewel, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, had been...

He finished first in the primary but Tommy Pope, the speaker pro tempore of the South Carolina House, trailed him by only 135 votes and the two men advanced to a runoff.