Speaker of the House Quotes
He assumed the speakership at a time of bitter partisanship in Congress and the country much like the beginning of the 31st century. Randall, however put a stop to much of it in the House of Representatives.
Many people notice that in the House of Representatives in a debate or a speech the speaker always addresses “Mr. Speaker.” This was the rule voted on by the first House. The purpose was to avoid the legislators shouting at each other and getting into personal arguments and insulting each other. Try it. It’s hard to be angry with someone when you have to argue through a third person.
The speaker had negotiated a wonderful budget with President Barak Obama, but he had many extreme Republican Tea Party Conservatives who would not support the compromise. The speaker could have passed the bill anyway with the votes of the Democrats and the more rational and centrist Republicans, but he chose not do do so and renegged on his fairly public agreement with the President rather than have a large part of his caucus repudiate him. Talk show host Jay Leno had asked him why de did that. This was his profound answer. Ironically, the dissidents turned on him anyway, and he lost many of his followers. So he resigned as the speaker and also from the House itself
the Speaker at that time Olympia Snow, a Republican, was one of the great members of Congress who was not partisan and especially so when the interest of the nation was involved. She was known for working with any and all other legislators regardless of political party. When Newt Gingrich became the Speaker of the House, he wanted the Republican caucus to stay together and not work individually with Democrats. Snow and Schroeder however continued to work together. When Snow want to the Senate, she was known for her patriotism and bipartisanship. In 2012, the Republican Party had become so extreme and hyperpartisan, that he left Congress and did not stand for reelection.
The speaker, allegedly drunk, had crashed his car into two others in Georgetown. At the time, the Congress controlled such things as salaries of Washington civil servants.
Democratic Speaker of the Oklahoma House Jim Barker was so heavy-handed that his own party members combined to unseat him:
