Test test test test captioning performed by vitac how did henry clay enhance the powers of the speaker . The force of his personality. No one wanted to debate him, certainly he had the force to win the argument. I think that alone had great influence in power. I dont know if in other speaker would be comparative. He understood as the power of committee assignments. The committee is basically he understood that the speaker had the power to put the people he wanted ton the committees and want something important he was known to be a fair man, the speaker and that was very important. Both sides of the aisle respected him and respected his opinions. Never overwritten in his rulings and was fair in the makeup of the companies, when he knew there was a certain issue coming up, you can see a slight inclination that he wanted the issue to go a certain way. He understood early and changed the rules with his backing and gave the speaker more power and cut off debate to limit debate and allowed h