Two of the three previous Speakers of the House were hounded by scandal before Robert L. Livingston's withdrawal today after admitting to marital indiscretions.
In this sequence the speakers reinforced each other's utterances by overlapping the previous speaker to affirm aspects of what each was talking about: Tim (turn 2) affirmed Kelly's point "used to watch them" (turn 1); Kelly (turn 4) affirmed Ricky's point about "real life examples" (turn 3).
The former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was a victim of those previous battles, and Dent said the current Speaker, Paul Ryan, is in danger of being toppled by the same forces.
We're not ready to share this year's speakers yet, but you can check out previous speakers to get a sense of what's to come.
Previous speakers for the benefit included both of Ms. Clinton's parents; President Obama; and Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu of South Africa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting apartheid.
Socrates thereby corrects the previous speakers' confusion of love with the beloved object.
Anticipating the previous speaker's responses enables the generation of new knowledge of how video mediates learning.
The AFP pursued a previous speaker, Peter Slipper, over his use of taxi vouchers to visit wineries outside Canberra in 2010.
The president embraced the criticism of a previous speaker, Eric Metaxas, a writer who delivered a funny, but trenchant, assault on those who he said espouse "phony religiosity" while failing to care for the poor or respecting those with whom they disagree, on issues like abortion.
He had only recently taken over as speaker of the chamber because the previous speaker, also from the PMDB party, was removed from office last week for 11 separate abuses of power, shortly after he oversaw impeachment proceedings there.
