Sentence examples for he faced as speaker from inspiring English sources

In particular, they decided that Mr. Romney should seize on questions about Mr. Gingrich's personal integrity, given his work as a highly paid consultant for Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage giant, and the ethics charges that he faced as speaker of the House.

It includes little insight, however, into Ms. Quinn's political life, barely mentioning her vote that allowed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to pursue a third term, and it omits the slush fund scandal that Ms. Quinn faced as City Council speaker.

It is true that a plurality of voters forty-three per cent, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released last week would prefer to see a new face as Speaker.

In the Democratic primary, he faced Harry Lee Waterfield, a former Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

From 2011 to 2014 he served as speaker of the House.

He resigned as speaker after his arrest.

The surprise about-face occurred as Speaker Newt Gingrich and his lieutenants became concerned that Democrats, with the help of dissident Republicans, were about to succeed in using a parliamentary maneuver to force a campaign finance bill to the floor despite opposition from the leadership.

House speaker Paul Ryan was smiling as he faced the media.

ALBANY — Assembly Democrats rallied around Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday, as he faced an inquiry into his handling of sexual harassment allegations made against a prominent lawmaker and continued attacks from a lawyer who represented some of the women.

In 2007, he was elected as speaker of the National Assembly.

He was succeeded as speaker by James H. Ross.