Speaker of the House

Cultural  

1. The presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The Speaker, a member of the House, is elected by a majority party caucus. In addition to being chief spokesman for the majority party, the Speaker runs the proceedings of House debate and voting, appoints committee members, refers bills to committees for research and development, and has an influential voice in all stages of a bill's consideration. One of the most visible and influential officials of the federal government, the Speaker is second in line, after the vice president, in succession to the presidency.

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Example Sentences

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the deal wasn't in the interests of the UK or the US and said she had spoken to the US ambassador Warren Stephens and the speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.

From BBC

Speaker of the House to address Parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here and now, he’s this round’s minor celebrity, akin in prominence to the likes of second-season also-ran John Bercow, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, and Season 3’s Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin to the crown.

From Salon

The former Conservative minister Lord Michael Forsyth of Drumlean has been announced as the new Speaker of the House of Lords.

From BBC

Mr. Johnson is speaker of the House.

From The Wall Street Journal