Posts Tagged ‘Speaker’
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Our Own History To Live
Posted on March 3, 2015
It was a Speaker who pushed America into the War of 1812. Henry Clay, a hero to Mitch McConnell, ascended briskly to the gavel as a 34 year-old newly elected...
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John Boehner and the Conservative Disconnect
Posted on January 9, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, why did two dozen House Republicans vote against John Boehner for speaker? I have been mulling this, and I can’t come up with a...
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It’s Really Not That Complicated
Posted on January 7, 2015
It’s really not that complicated. I don’t mean to sound like Peter Morini, but when it comes to the vote for Speaker of the House, it really isn’t that complicated....
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Support the Speaker
Posted on January 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) From 1910 to 1943, it was fairly common for some members of the Republican Party to vote for somebody for Speaker of the House other...
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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