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
For speaker of the house. As a practical member, its been a member of the house of representatives, but that is not a limitation on the selection of the speaker. Host how partisan is the post . Guest thats a great question, and the i would say this, its a partisanship of the office the speaker change overtime. From the very beginning, the office of speaker had both partisan an nonpartisan responsibilities. In other words, to some extent, the speaker was expected to represent the Majority Party in the house, but also to some extent speaker has parliamentary responsibilities ensuring that the rules are followed every member has the same rights, treated fairly, and to preside over the daytoday operations of the house on the house tbloor. Overtime, the position of speaker has become more partisan, and i would say reached the height of the temporary partisanship around the 1990s and 2000s was because gingrich and Speaker Pelosi. Boehner pulled away from that and tried to reintroduce the lef
Joint antivirus and sanctions. Now last, despite ukrainian president zelinski is coal for brazil, yet to choose aside in the conflict with july, from our headquarters in the russian capital. Its for 1 am on monday morning here in moscow. My name is peter scott, with the latest news as we head into the new week. Welcome to the program. Now, from egypt to the republic of congo, the Russian Foreign minister has been touring the african continent with the global food crisis being one of the key talking points as he held a number of high level meetings love landed in congo earlier. And its the 1st ever visits of a Russian Foreign minister to the country in both russian and soviets history. Later on monday, sort of get left off is scheduled to hold talks on a number of issues with these congolese counterparts of the Russian Foreign ministers. First stop on the toll was cairo where he held folks with his egyptian counterparts after the meeting level of stress. The importance of bilateral ties