CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Speaker Of The House April 13, 2014
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 ru...