Showing posts with label Speaker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speaker. Show all posts
Monday, May 13, 2024

House Speakers Casting Roll Call Votes

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Don Wolfensberger at The Hill : From eighth grade civics through college government courses to nearly three decades each of working in the ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

House GOP Woes

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Axios: Never before has the party in control of the House of Representatives knowingly and willingly castrated its own power so thoroughly a...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The Fall of Speaker McCarthy

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    Zachary B. Wolf at CNN: Kevin McCarthy is House speaker no more. After angering GOP hardliners with a spending bill to keep the gove...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Electing the Speaker of the house

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  I've been talking to a lot of reporters about the procedures for electing the Speaker. I thought people might like to see the notes I ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Vacating the Chair

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Louis Jacobson at PolitiFact: If the new Congress ends up at 218 Republicans and 217 Democrats, that would be the narrowest possible divide...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Choosing a Speaker

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Control of the House is still in play this morning, although Republicans have an advantage.  CRS explains the process for electing a speaker...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Electing a House Speaker

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Matt Glassman at Legislative Procedure: Traditionally, a norm has existed in both parties that all members support their party nominee wh...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

Mike Lee for Speaker?

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Ross Douthat floats the idea of Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for speaker: Lee has an insurgent’s résumé: He was elected with the Tea Party wav...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Can a Non-Member Become Speaker?

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Some commentators have noted that the Constitution does not define the qualifications for speaker of the House and are speculating that the...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Electing a Speaker

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From the Congressional Research Service: Each new House elects a Speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes. Customarily, the confe...
Friday, March 9, 2012

John Boehner on Leadership and the House

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Our chapter on Congress examines the role of leadership and the character of the institution's membership. In an interview with Peggy No...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Speaker and the Debt

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Edmund Burke wrote : "In all bodies, those who will lead, must also, in a considerable degree, follow." House Speaker John Boehn...