Word: speaker
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Citizens must take an active role in defining public policy if they hope to solve society's problems, warned the speaker of the California State Assembly in a speech at the Kennedy School on Saturday...
...matter what side we are on, I suggest we should engage in a dialogue to define public policy. We must raise the level of public dialogue and public policy," said Willie Brown, the Democrat who has served as California's speaker for a record 15 consecutive years...
...Speaker of the House] Newt [Gingrich] and Rush allow these people to achieve a level of comfort that shouldn't be provided," he said...
Jackson is without peer as a speaker on national issues. He has been a presidential candidate, has resolved international incidents, is founder of the Rainbow Coalition and is arguably the most visible and eloquent spokesperson for civil rights in our time. He is equally comfortable at Burke High School, the downtown jail, and the Harvard Law School. Surely, he deserved single billing at the Kennedy School that evening. Joseph W. Hogan Graduate Student in Biostatics
House Republicans are contemplating a stunning$305 billion cut in projected Medicare spendingto help balance the budget, but that hasn't stopped Speaker Newt Gingrich from rolling the hot potato down Pennsyvlania Avenue. Today, he challenged the Clinton administration, which has accused the GOP of cutting Medicare togive tax breaks to the rich, to come up with its own proposal to reform the ailing Medicare system by May 15. "Our goal will be, by September, to bring in a bill that will save the Medicare system for a generation," Gingrich told a group of seniors. He added: "We are going...