What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist speaker but he was also the 20 essential southern gentlemen and he treated all of us like gentlemen. In his view, we all were speaker rayburn once said, the chair always takes the word of a member on one occasion when a point of order had been made about a members representation that he had been in the chamber at a time qualifying him to vote on an issue. The chair always takes the word of a membe
"Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continue to unjustly detain or force into exile those who wish to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms in Nicaragua," said State Spokesperson Miller.
Nicaragua’s government released a prominent Catholic bishop and 18 other clergy members imprisoned in a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and handed them over to Vatican authorities.
Nicaragua’s government released a prominent Catholic bishop and 18 other clergy members imprisoned in a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and handed them over to Vatican authorities who welcomed them in Rome. Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the other clergy were jailed more than a year ago, in most cases, as part of a crackdown on…
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