Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral controversy is underway after Cambridge State Representatives Timothy J. Toomey and Alvin E. Thompson proposed a bill last week which would name a Cambridge bridge after Charles F. Flaherty, the former Speaker of the House, who stepped down in disrepute earlier this year...
Anderson said she thought Flaherty, as Speaker of the House, belonged to the state as a whole and not just to Cambridge. She said that if Flaherty is honored, "[it] should be something that reflects his position as Speaker of the entire House, something that will remind us of him long into the future...
...least one former constituent of Flaherty felt the former speaker is unworthy of the honor...
...very real sense, the election had been debated on terms that Gingrich and his troops had set. But as the presidential candidates were pointing the way to the millennium, the Speaker of the House spent the past few months in a tiny world of half-empty hotel ballrooms and news conferences small enough to fit in a hallway. At times, doing missionary work with the already converted, he almost forgot to mention the name of whatever obscure candidate on whose behalf he was appearing...
...appears eager to move ahead. As he talks about the ethics scandals that are beginning to surround the Clinton White House like dandelions, Gingrich sounds once again like the back-bench Congressman who came to national attention waging the war that brought down one of his predecessors as Speaker. "These people are dramatically more dishonest and more systematically covering up than anyone in American history," Gingrich said in the final days of the campaign. "It is breathtaking...