All the networks carried 15 minutes from US President Barack Obama and something much shorter by US Speaker John Boehner.
March 16-17 in San Francisco by telling us which speaker they're most looking forward to seeing at the conference.
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When I graduated college in 2005, the commencement speaker told us to be lucky.
It's certainly effective, though, the surprisingly loud speaker has us crossing our fingers for a mute button in the final version.
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"All politics is local, " Mary Hawkesworth said, quoting former speaker of the US House of Representatives Thomas "Tip" O'Neill.
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The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives has accused President Barack Obama of "a lack of clarity" and "lack of visibility and leadership" over the Nato mission in Libya.
"There could be a million distractions around him -- he could be on a bad phone connection, in an airport, running for a plane, and he'd immediately grasp a complex story as five of us shouted it into a speaker phone, and he'd have the fix, " she said.
House Speaker John Boehner told US media on Wednesday said that immigration was the only issue on Mr Obama's state of the union list that had any chance in Congress this year.
The Speaker of the House sent us a proposal that was two pages long that included one sentence on revenue.
One is, can you tell us how long the conversation lasted with the Speaker?
Do you want us to come away with the thought that the Speaker came to the White House and that two men did not discuss these two things?
The speaker makes no overt threats to the US and did not directly call for attacks, according to transcripts of the tape obtained by several media organisations in the United States.
"I think the debt crisis that we face requires us to make serious decisions, and it requires us to make those decisions now, " GOP House Speaker John Boehner said Friday in response to reporters' questions about his views on Medicare.
On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker.
This speaker forecast that our dysfunctional Congress will likely drive us over the Fiscal Cliff and work out a deal a few months after the fact.
And yet, the man with the plan to be speaker of the House, John Boehner, attacked us for closing corporate tax loopholes and using the money to keep hundreds of thousands of essential personnel on the jobs all across the states.
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House Speaker NANCY PELOSI (Democrat, California): Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money.
At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.
Mr Speaker, in the midst of all the rancour and recrimination about expenses, let us seize the moment to lift our politics to a higher standard.
And other statements that the Speaker has made and other statements that other Republican and Democratic leaders have made lead us to believe that broadly speaking we all -- we, the White House and the leaders of Congress, understand the truth here, which is that it is -- would be foolhardy to play chicken with the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
After selecting the standalone speaker within the Music player's menu settings, our chosen track began playing immediately, allowing us to adjust volume and control playback from the handset.
On Friday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner reiterated his party's refusal to allow taxes to rise and challenged the gridlocked US Senate to pass a bill first before the House acted on a plan.
"This legislation is wise, it has consensus, it brings us together in a bipartisan way, and we are definitely going to leave no veterans behind, " House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said during a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday for a new GI Bill.
So when I hear the Speaker or the Senate Republican leader wanting to dicker, wanting to see what can they extract from us in order to get this done, my response to them is, just do the right thing: Focus on the American people, focus on the economy right now.
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Major Ed Pulido, US Army, Retired, who was severely wounded by an IED while serving in Iraq, will be the guest speaker.
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