If possible.
The phrase "speaker to be" is grammatically correct, but it is not a very common phrase. It is a slightly formal way of saying something like "whoever speaks" or "whoever is speaking." For example: The speaker to be has a lot of important information to share.
It is a tradition for a newly elected speaker to be dragged to the chair reluctantly.
But he did cite "hella" as a kind of shibboleth, revealing the speaker to be from the East Bay.
Martin, appointed in 2000, became the first Speaker to be forced from office in more than 300 years.
Many lawmakers, black and white, say they expect the speaker to be more attuned to black Assembly members' concerns.
But Mr Martin was the first Speaker to be forced out of office for more than 300 years.
As a technique, tongues capture the attention but focus it on something meaningless (but understood by the speaker to be divine).
Speaker-to-be John Boehner's propensity for breaking into tears when he visits schools and sees the children could be classified as legitimate tears if the crying were backed up by his voting record in the House.
"What the American people were saying is 'Enough!' " the Speaker-to-be told me, as he savored his own win and his party's landslide, which he said was "a historical tide, not just a partisan election".
But what we have been hearing sounds disturbingly like what we heard after the 1994 election, when Newt Gingrich, then the speaker-to-be, announced that there would be no compromising on his agenda.
That may be what House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi is discovering days after guiding congressional Democrats to an electoral triumph that won her party control of the House and the Senate.
TAMPA, FLORIDA — Watching Representative John Boehner, the likely House speaker-to-be, lose it as he celebrated the crushing Republican victory in mid-term elections was one of those weird experiences that are riveting even as they make you want to avert your eyes.
