Electing the Speaker of the House

[rambone]

I was hoping to clarify and discuss some things regarding the position of Speaker of the House.

• How & when is the new speaker determined? I know that an internal election is held within the House. How are the candidates determined? How many are allowed to run?

• I heard something interesting that there is nothing in the constitution that requires the Speaker of the House to be a currently sitting representative. Though, it has never happened that a non-House-member sat as Speaker. Just an interesting thing to note.

• Ron Paul should run as Speaker of the House. This would be good for the country and position him closer towards another run at the presidency in 2012.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

It's a Wikipedia link, but it's a start for you:

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[sj kahr k40]

Well if you don't have to be a rep to be speaker I say we try to get SE elected to the position, he needs a job and would be so busy that he couldn't bother us