Professor Matthew Green talks about his book the speaker of the house. This is half an hour. Host youre watching booktv. Were on location at the Catholic University of america in washington, dc, and were meeting some of the professors who have also written books. Joining us now is professor Matthew Green who has written the peeker of the house a study of lloydership. Whats the speaker of the house responsible for . Guest the speaker of the house has a number of responsibilities. He or she is the top officer of the house of representatives and in fact the only one named in the constitution, and so theres an expectation that speakers are there to represent the house of representatives to the senate and American People. The principal practical matter the speaker is responsible for ensuring that the house operates correctly, ensuring that legislation is enacted, helping to develop the agenda, interacting with the president , interacting with the American People, and ensuring that general t
When we were fighting it and it is just a different environment. If you look at the protest movement over 2013, they remain moderate tone focused on legitimate grievances of the community. The protests in the fallujah taking place every friday were far more militant, far more extremist. It is just a different like different cultures and attitudes. If i could just follow up on congressman deutschs question, you said most of the foreign fighters were syrian . Had come inighters to syria from the greater region thomas jihadist minded people had come in. Theeo speak about what and president s assad. Do they understand that why allowing these flyovers and potentially strengthening our programming prolonging of the regime, they are undermining their ability to take back their own country from the same extremists . Connection . That what is the difference between and assad regime . There is no love lost with Bashar Alassad. He was calling for him to be brought to a criminal court taste upon b
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Speakers at least since the 1940s are known for at least producing one major work of legislation. But certainly at the top of that list id have to say would be sam rayburn. Host whats the speakers normal interaction with the senate . Guest with the senate . I wouldnt say that the speaker has a normal interaction with the senate. It varies by who the speaker is, it varies by which party is in control of the house and which partys in control of the senate, and it varies on the personal or the personalities of the speaker and the Senate Leadership. Theres an expectation that speakers need to have an open line of communication with the leadership in the senate because you cant get any legislation enacted without the senates approval. And so to that respect, there is some kind of communication or relationship. But the degree of closeness that there is between, say, the speaker and the senate or Senate Leaders is going to vary tremendously by who the individual speaker is and who the leaders
Impact on overthecounter derivatives. Earlier testimony for managing directors of Goldman Sachs and barclays as well as other financial institutions. This is an hour 20 minutes. Panel greetings. What youre getting your papers, et cetera organized in front of you, i welcome the second panel. A couple first housekeeping items. Nsn members here have been to testify before others have not. As a reminder before that it had been, or complete statement will be made part of the record. You will be recognized for five minutes for your statement right now so sometimes we seek to capitalize your statement and right in front of you is that clark bair. Goes down to five minutes in the final time. Also, i saw all that you sitting there with the first panel. We understood from the first panel everything is going well. We are going to move quickly through the process and of harmonization not only run the world, but accurate thomas of abuse in the second panel will tell us the exact same thing that its