• Convention, as you perhaps know, is that political leaders, party leaders don't talk about the Speaker.

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  • After Hoyer's conference call, an aide told CNN that the majority leader is in full agreement with the speaker about the need for a public option, and that a health reform bill will be hard to pass in the House without one.

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  • More generally, a combination of the new Backbench Business Committee facilitating debates on subjects MPs want to talk about, and the Speaker allowing many more urgent questions - and, memorably, the emergency debate on phone hacking - have created a much more vibrant Commons.

    BBC: Time to salute the post-2010 election Parliament

  • The BBC understands Mr Brown spoke to the Speaker on Sunday about the situation.

    BBC: Angry MPs turn on Commons Speaker

  • When talking about Palestine, the speaker is referring to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza.

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  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown declined to give Mr Martin his backing, saying that "the decision about who is Speaker is a matter for the House of Commons - it could never be a matter for the government".

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  • Mr Sharon's comments were seen as a reference to his Foreign Minister Shimon Peres who has been holding talks with the Palestinian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Queira about the framework for a possible peace deal.

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  • And we hope that the Speaker would consider taking up that proposal, because just -- I think it was yesterday or the day before -- the Speaker talked about how he believes we could and should reform the tax code.

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  • When Boehner was asked about the impact of the Republican sponsored cuts on jobs, the Speaker first attempted to deflect the question by lying about the number of federal employees added since the beginning of the Obama administration.

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  • In that same article in the Wall Street Journal Speaker Boehner boasts about using the sequester as leverage.

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  • One day I found myself, after a scheduled speaker cancelled, addressing a room full of people as a speaker about the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the North American nuns.

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  • What about the position of the Speaker?

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  • Whereas the Note 10.1 positioned its speakers on the front face (read: out of the way of consumers' hands), the Note 8.0's smaller size and portrait orientation mean users will have to be mindful about not covering the lower speaker when watching video in landscape.

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  • And I think -- I would note that one of the things that either Speaker Boehner or his spokesperson said last night was that there was some similarity between what the Gang of Six had put forward and what the President and the Speaker had been talking about when they were looking at the possibility of achieving a grand bargain.

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  • But the process that he went through with the Speaker of the House was all about trying to find the kind of balance that achieved the goal in an equitable way of significant and sweeping deficit reduction, and also did it in a way that it could pass Congress in both houses.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Bill Thomas, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, just about the most important job, other than maybe Speaker of the House, is announcing his resignation.

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  • But the Sunday deadline gives the speaker and the president something to talk about when they play golf together at the weekend.

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  • People tend to look up at the end of utterances, which gives their listeners warning that the speaker is about to stop talking.

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  • What I was talking about -- what has been provided by the work, the positive work that the Speaker of the House and the President did, is a lot of detail about how you could get to significant tax reform and entitlement reform, and the savings that you can glean from that, the deficit reduction you can glean from that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • However, many women today have mixed feelings about watching the first and only female Speaker of the House lose her title to incoming House Speaker John Boehner.

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  • If 82 Republicans decide to vote with the Democrats against a gun-control bill that he supports, as they did last weekend, then there is little the speaker can do about that, except blame Democrats afterwards.

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  • Firstly, Angus Robertson, the party's leader in the Commons, demanded an apology - then asked the Speaker to clarify what might be done about Mr Davidson's chairmanship of the Scottish Select Committee.

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  • And I think -- again, I would point you to comments made by the House and Senate leaders, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader, about their desire to avoid a shutdown.

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  • He was just asked about the fact that during his negotiations with Speaker Boehner a year ago, he seemed willing to consider increasing the eligibility age for Medicare recipients and slowing benefit increases for entitlements.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And when the Speaker says the discussion about revenue is closed, again, ask Americans around the country whether they agree that it is better economic policy for middle-class Americans to lose their jobs, or oil and gas companies to have their subsidies reduced or corporate jet owners to have their loophole closed.

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  • The second speaker is the archeologist, who, to Verna, looks about twelve.

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  • The discussion about Mr Mitchell lasted about half an hour - leaving Chancellor George Osborne, who was the main speaker, to wait outside in corridor.

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  • The speaker will divulge more detail about his congressional fall agenda during his Manchester, N.

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  • For more information about ASTRO Gaming or the studio's customizable speaker tags, please visit www.astrogaming.com.

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  • Christian voters also have misgivings about Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives and the previous front-runner.

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