Ms. Galef has built a reputation as a government reformer, decrying the Legislature's notorious practice of giving the Senate majority leader and the Assembly Speaker control over nearly every legislative matter.
The office of the Speaker has control over the cameras, not the network.
Mr. Kroft asked Ms. Pelosi if it was a conflict of interest that her husband in 2008 participated in Visa's initial public offering at a time when Congress was considering new credit card rules and Ms. Pelosi, then the speaker, had control over what legislation reached the floor.
While the majority of the studies showed an increase in mean utterance rate decreases fluency and a decrease in utterance rate increases fluency (see Howell, 2004a for an extensive review), the studies suffer from the fact that speakers have dynamic control over rate.
The timing, with the citywide elections barely one year away, was abysmal for Ms. Quinn — who as the powerful Council speaker, with viselike control over all legislation, loomed as the only person standing between the mayor and a third term.
As a member of the Rules Committee and Democratic floor leader, he revolted against Speaker Joseph G. Cannon's dictatorial control over the House in 1910.
But members of the City Council say that the unit frequently functions as something else as well: a publicity and public relations machine for Christine C. Quinn, the Council speaker, who maintains firm control over its operations and the good will that it generates around the city.
It's crucial to point out that Speaker Paul Ryan has total control over which legislation comes up for a vote.
Design engineers may be able to control most of the elements that make for great sound from a pair of speakers, but they have no control over perhaps the most important one: the person who buys them.
Because the current speaker, Christine Quinn, has so much control over the Council, Mayor Bloomberg can deal almost exclusively with her, ignoring the members and, by extension, their constituents.
