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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...

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 s...

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 v...

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Audience members please turn off your cell phones now. Everybody take a second to make sure your cell phone is off. So we have two wonderful boston globe columnist here, kevin cole in in your penitentiary, and we asked him if he would like to attend but when the phone didnt ring we knew it was him. [laughter] shelley and i have covered, first of all, shelley grew up in dorchester very close to the south boston line. She went to south boston high. My entire maternal side is in south boston so we would have grown up knowing, learning about Whitey Bulger by osmosis. Everybody where we grew up whe...