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Presiding officer of a national assembly or legislative body, originated in the Westminster Parliament
The Speaker of the House does not have legal authority to deploy the District of Columbia National Guard; , while specific requests to support the U.S. Capitol require approval by the Capitol Police B...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment authorizes the vice president and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments (or a different body Congress creates) to declare the President “una...
The Speaker of the House has no unilateral command authority over the National Guard, but is part of a constitutional and statutory web that can receive notifications, request briefings, and influence...
The available, contemporaneous sources converge: , while rank-and-file Senators and Representatives receive $174,000 and the Speaker of the House is paid $223,500. Multiple independent summaries and c...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment creates a fast, constitutional mechanism for transferring presidential powers when the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive ...
The Constitution’s Twenty-Second Amendment plainly bars any person from being elected president more than twice, but legal scholars, political advocates and partisan boosters have debated a narrow set...
The Speaker of the House does not have unilateral authority to activate the District of Columbia National Guard; control over D.C. Guard mobilization rests with the President and the Defense Departmen...