Word: speaker
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...Wright, the sinking Speaker of the House, summoned the media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...speaker was said to have been personally hurt by reports on Wednesday that he had sought to negotiate a plea bargaining arrangement with the ethics committee, which charged him April 17 with 69 violations of House rules...
Foley publicly dismissed assertions that Wright was poised to resign. But fellow House Democrats were already privately assuming he would shortly be speaker...
...wish I could rewrite the past, but unfortunately I can't," said Mack, probably the most influential staffer on Capitol Hill. Insisted Speaker Wright, who loses his right-hand man as he faces a bitter survival struggle over his ethics problems: "I was willing to give this young man another chance, and I have never had occasion to regret...