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In reply to the discussion: Heartbreak at the UN [View all]Volaris
(10,260 posts)41. She doesn't have to be. The House Speaker is whoever gets the majority of the Majorities votes.
It never has been done before, but there's no Constitutional clause that says Membership is a prerequisite for the Speakership.
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Spoken also for many people in the US government throughout the agencies who are seeing
enough
Sep 2017
#2
She doesn't have to be. The House Speaker is whoever gets the majority of the Majorities votes.
Volaris
Sep 2017
#41
Trump's UN speech today should scare Democrats into unity of purpose, if nothing else.
democrank
Sep 2017
#15
I knew there were people with that sort of antiquated view of human and world relations.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Sep 2017
#28