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The speaker is a member of parliament (MP) and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow MPs. The speaker's role in presiding over the House of Commons is similar to that of speakers elsewhere in other countries that use the Westminster system. The speaker does not vote except in the case of a tie.
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House or House speaker, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section II, of the U.S. Constitution.
Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly The Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) is probably the oldest office, and best known; Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture; A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
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The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially, after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term.
A speaker is the presiding officer of the Lok Sabha and of the legislative assembly of each of the twenty-eight states and three union territories. Similarly a chairperson heads the Rajya Sabha and the legislative council of each of the six states, where the upper house in the state legislature exists.
An invitation to the Speaker's Lecture on "The Future of Brexit", delivered by Hilary Benn and Michael Gove, and chaired by the Speaker, John Bercow. The 2017 lecture covered the future of various issues, institutions, and causes. In this series Bercow also introduced a respondent, often a speaker external to Parliament.
Speaker of the Sahrawi National Council; Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiʻataua; President of the Senate of Ceylon; President of the National Assembly of Serbia; Speaker of the House of Parliament of Sierra Leone; Speaker of the Senate of Somalia; Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana; Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka; Speaker of the Riksdag