Sentence examples for sitting speaker from inspiring English sources
Voting a sitting Speaker out would have looked pretty bloodthirsty.
No such floor vote to oust a sitting speaker has happened in over 100 years.
Mr. Straus overthrew a sitting speaker in 2009 and survived a challenge in 2011.
It was the first time a sitting Speaker had been defeated since 1860.
The same state dumped a sitting speaker of the House, Tom Foley, in 1994.
Democrats last held the eastern Washington district in 1994, when the sitting speaker, Tom Foley, lost in a shocking upset.
The defendant, Travion Blount, had no former governors or sitting Speakers or N.F.L. stars to testify to his character.
The comment constitutes a remarkable admission from a member of President Trump's Cabinet that could be interpreted as conspiring to remove a sitting House speaker belonging to the president's own party.
It has 504 sleek, contemporary rooms on 12 stories, with work desks, sitting areas, speaker phones with voice mail and marble baths, as well as restaurants and an athletic club.
Mr. Merritt said Mr. Toomey summoned him to his State House office in 2004 and warned that he could "call the six richest people in Texas and take me out" unless Mr. Merritt supported the re-election of the sitting House speaker and Perry ally, Tom Craddick.
"This bill has been sitting in Speaker [John] Boehner's lap for weeks, and he could end the shutdown tomorrow if he would simply bring it up for a vote".
