Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv is live from savannah, ga. Home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. We kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by Georgia Power. Into our new venue of the Lutheran Church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. Many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. Today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. We would like to extend special thanks to our presenting foster, Georgia Power, individual donors who make Saturdays Free ev
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
In the constitution, and so theres an expectation that speakers are there to represent the house of representatives with the senate and the American People. The 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 in general the house is working the will of the people. Could anyone be the speaker of house . You have to be a member of the house for . Technically you do not. The house shall choose it speaker. So in theory anyone can run for speaker of the health. As a practical matter its always been a member of the house of representatives, but that is not a limitation that the constitution imposes on the selection of the speaker. How partisan is the post . Thats a great question. I would say this, that the partisanship of the office of speaker has changed over time. From the very beginning th
Republicans and democrats, congress and the white house. The federal government and the states. The Public Sector and the private sector. Mr. Speaker, some might say that saying those things is a cliche. But as we all know, members are going to have to engage with and rigorous debate, and there it is going to be the clash of ideas, a rigorous debate, but it needs to be done with good faith and the spirit of compromise. I realize and some argue that compromise is a sign of weakness. In fact, one of the great strengths, mr. Speaker, of our nations founders, was their ability to compromise. The very structure of this institution, the United States congress, the very structure of our institution, which joined the peoples house, where we are all privileged to serve, with the United States senate, was known as what . The connecticut compromise, or the great compromise. That is the very basis of our founders. Too often we forget that while we should never, we should never compromise our princ
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