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And so was this monster, with a huge speaker’s fee of $75,000 for a puny school to dish out?
Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/05/second-hand-third-hand-vicarious-trauma/
And with hard-right lawmakers empowered to derail spending bills or call for the speaker’s removal at any moment, some worried the chamber would be dysfunctional and paralyzed from the start.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/politics/mccarthy-house-speaker-republicans.html
As Kevin McCarthy begins the final descent of his turbulent bid for the speaker’s gavel, Republicans are bracing to see whether he lands the plane or crashes and burns.
Source: https://wbt.com/483007/vince-coakley-will-the-gop-stand-by-kevin-mccarthy/
But she had teased at the top of the hour that the former speaker’s comments were “not friendly.”
For better or worse, Pelosi ended her tenure as speaker with nearly unprecedented concentration of power in the speaker’s office.
His passion for justice is matched by his eloquence, most recently on display in the instantly-viral “ABCs of American Values” speech he delivered just before he handed McCarthy the speaker’s gavel, symbolizing the peaceful transfer of power.
“If you’re the one executing it, you fail,” Representative Patrick T. McHenry, Republican of North Carolina and the speaker’s longtime sounding board, said of a shutdown earlier in the week.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/politics/mccarthy-shutdown-turnabout.html
“It is disappointing that none of the other speakers at the meeting sought to address or clarify that speaker’s statements.
Madigan, McClain and Mapes were described as the three major players in a triangle of power that held sway over the longtime speaker’s Democratic House caucus, government operations and major grip on statewide politics.
McClain’s closeness to Madigan will be a focal point for prosecutors, who need to prove the nexus between the speaker’s office and the benefits ComEd expected to draw from its largesse.
Once the AI bot learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything, and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker’s emotional tone, as well as the environment where the speaker is in.
Some other students sat outside the House speaker’s office in the legislative building.
So those are things that we’ve already turned the page from the speaker’s race to the real work, rolling up our sleeves, getting the committee set up and moving forward.
That’s to be expected, we suppose, but what came next reminded us of the poisonous partisanship and the lack of introspection that pervaded the Beltway during her final years with the speaker’s gavel.
Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/100769-pelosis-difference-of-opinion-2023-09-27
The clash over the speaker’s gavel has left lasting hurdles in Biden’s quest to attain even a fraction of the military aid he wants.
The constitution requires a two-thirds majority (401 votes) in the first two rounds of the speaker’s election, while a simple majority (301 votes) is sufficient in the third round.
Source: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/parliamentary-swearing-in-ceremony-expected-on-june-1-183507
The six Republican holdouts all voted present on the 15th ballot, giving McCarthy a 216-212 victory to end the longest speaker’s race since 1859.
The speaker’s on beyond-solid ground in blocking California Reps.
Those pickups are a sign he could be inching closer to the speaker’s gavel as GOP holdouts digest a rules package he offered this week.
WASHINGTON—With the Capitol in chaos and the speaker’s position going on its third week of vacancy, Rep. Matt Gaetz surveyed the consequences of his actions and declared he had no regrets.