She will gavel each session to order and will gavel each session closed.
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Consider only CNN among the major networks carried the proceedings gavel to gavel.
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Both trials become cultural touchstones that were shown gavel to gavel on live television.
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"I see the gavel on the hill and we can get the gavel," Sarbanes said.
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Every major broadcast and cable network suspended regular programming to carry gavel-to-gavel coverage.
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I was just awe-struck by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and I watched them gavel to gavel.
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The daylong hearing, carried live nearly from gavel-to-gavel by CNN, made for good theater.
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I live-tweeted and made 237 separate entries from gavel to gavel, covering the full hearing.
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So certainly the gavel, the fact that the Democrats have control of the gavel is ... So privacy.
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Smart's 1991 trial for conspiring to murder her husband was the first to be broadcast gavel-to-gavel.
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"No one's going to watch a 600-hour movie of gavel-to-gavel, unedited coverage of a trial," he said.
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C-SPAN is airing the convention, gavel to gavel, with most major networks and cable news stations providing evening coverage.
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Fox News, after routinely breaking into regular programming for gavel-to-gavel coverage of Mr. Trump's speeches, has cut back in recent weeks.
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There are just four days from gavel to gavel, so there is little room for large news organizations to extemporize at either convention site.
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In 1968, when ABC didn't have enough money to cover the Conventions gavel to gavel, the network hired Buckley and Gore Vidal to debate.
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This kind of drama could last weeks and, if done right, command gavel-to-gavel coverage and post-hearing news analysis on a nightly basis.
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And bless you C-SPAN, you're a nerd's best friend for providing "gavel to gavel" coverage of Congress, but your internet stream was... also really bad.
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Early in the episode, a producer from that still fledgling network tries to persuade Judge Weisberg to allow cameras in the courtroom for "gavel-to-gavel" coverage.
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That was one of the first stories that took place gavel to gavel on television, where everyone could tune in every day and watch the latest and greatest.
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Hell's Sports Bar will reopen once the Super Bowl is over, featuring gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Iowa caucuses plus continuous-loop IMAX screening of the "Fantastic Four" reboot.
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On CBS, anchors from CBS This Morning — Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell, and John Dickerson — will be joined by CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor to lead the "gavel to gavel" coverage.
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Though these sessions, common since 2011, merely gavel in and gavel out the Senate chamber, they have the practical effect of keeping the Senate active, therefore blocking the recess appointment power.
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E.W. Scripps Company (SSP) announced Monday that the cable channel known for its gavel-to-gavel coverage of court cases is being rebooted more than 10 years after it was adjourned.
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But the most striking thing for a viewer in 2019, watching the gavel-to-gavel public-TV coverage of the first Senate hearings that began on May 17, 1973, is the quiet.
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Yes, and I got on TV because, well, actually William Kennedy Smith, because CNN called the American Bar Association and was looking for a lawyer to do commentaries and gavel-to-gavel coverage.
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She handed the gavel to Republican John Boehner in 2011.
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A critic's pen, though, is not a gavel only; judging
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Brady, who won the Ways and Means gavel after Rep.
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Ryan vowed a more inclusive approach when taking the gavel.
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After relinquishing the House Oversight Committee gavel this month, Rep.
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Such moves could further bolster Graves's case for the gavel.
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A campaign spokesman said that what he called "gavel-to-gavel coverage" of the convention would be distributed to viewers on Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku, in addition to Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.
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It was the summer of 1968, and ABC, lagging well behind its competitors — who were conducting gavel-to-gavel coverage of the major political parties' national conventions — decided to shake things up a bit.
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But as she retakes the gavel Thursday, she is matching the legacy of renowned House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas by being the second speaker to reclaim the gavel after losing it in decades.
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The cameras go on when House Speaker Republican Paul Ryan hits the gavel and opens a House session and they go off when the gavel goes down again to signal the end of the session.
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If Democrats win, the Oversight gavel would likely go to Rep.
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Susan Collins, also a Republican, who held the Senate's gavel Tuesday.
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Higgins' support removes another obstacle between Pelosi and the speaker gavel.
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She held the post since Frelinghuysen took the gavel in 85033.
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Republicans have stripped it away each time they've taken the gavel.
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Democrats need a 30-seat gain to snatch the speaker's gavel.
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The Prime Minister rose and struck the table with a gavel.
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They raised salient objections from the moment of the opening gavel.
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Three Republicans are in the running for the Budget gavel: Reps.
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So what's pushing these gavel-wielding lawmakers out the House door?
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A woman in hot pink claimed the gavel in the House.
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Bloomberg: Perry won't be able to hide from gavel-wielding Democrats.
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"This hearing is coming to order," he said, banging a gavel.
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But when the time comes, she said she'll seek the gavel.
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It doesn't matter really who has the gavel, Republican or Democrat.
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A woman in hot pink claimed the gavel in the House.
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So instead of formally adjourning during the August recess, at least one senator will make his or her way to the chamber every three days to lead a brief gavel-in, gavel-out pro forma session.
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"There's very few things that we have been able to find common ground on," said Mr. Evers, the Democrat who, as the gavel-in, gavel-out special legislative session showed, has struggled to enact his agenda.
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Back in 1995, "trial of the century" may have seemed a little over the top, even as the television-watching public was transfixed by gavel-to-gavel coverage, and hitherto obscure Los Angeles lawyers became household names.
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Washington (CNN)Television networks and cable channels have gone gavel-to-gavel this week on coverage of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, airing every word from every speaker into the middle of the night.
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The committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte just banged the gavel and we're off.
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"We'll definitely be ready if we can get the gavel," Sarbanes said.
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There, on the stage, was white auctioneer Alan Wheeler, gavel in hand.
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Give us the gavel in the Senate and we'll do it there.
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The House Intelligence Committee will gavel in its hearing at 10 a.m.
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Pelosi insists that she can win the speakers' gavel with Democratic votes.
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He won the gavel in 6900, triumphing in a four-way race.
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Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who held the gavel from 2004 to 2007.
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Dave Brat (R-Va.), also floated the possibility of getting the gavel.
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Schiff will get subpoena power when he takes the gavel next year.
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MORE (Ind.) on Ethics — and nine others hold the gavel of subcommittees.
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They have gone from wandering in the wilderness to wielding the gavel.
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Nunes retains his gavel — and Democrats on Thursday struck a conciliatory note.
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That process would likely launch quickly if the gavel falls to Rep.
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Another Republican woman who could unexpectedly win the Speaker's gavel is Rep.
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The barest slip in GOP turnout could cost Republicans the Speaker's gavel.
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The Prime Minister swapped the first gavel for another, made of rubber.
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However, he did take: a watch, three wallets and the judge's gavel.
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He predicted Ryan would still be holding the Speaker's gavel in 2017.
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The courtroom has a gavel and the judges share, Judge Katzmann answered.
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Rob Portman (R-OH), banging the gavel, tried to quiet the protesters.
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Nancy Pelosi become the first person since 1955 to reclaim the speaker's gavel.
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And whether or not Republicans still maintain control and we have the gavel.
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"You are out of order, I'll proceed", Mr Grassley said, banging his gavel.
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Often, the chair just tries to "gavel through" whatever he or she wants.
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Grassley called for regular order and slowly tapped his gavel as Booker spoke.
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She is expected to gavel the convention in and out but that's it.
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"I don't know why he banged [the gavel] so aggressively," Hennessy told Cosmo.
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Here's a highlight reel of Ryan's first year with the Speaker's gavel. Oct.
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Here, Ms. Fonda tells the stories behind some pieces going under the gavel.
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Fred Upton (R-Mich.) reaching his six-year term limit with the gavel.
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Brady won the Ways and Means gavel last year after his predecessor, Rep.
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"I think he was crying when he gave me the gavel," Pelosi joked.
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"That's — that's enough," Bell could be heard saying after striking down his gavel.
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I give you the latest on the race for the panel's gavel here.
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Joe Barton wants another shot at the House Energy and Commerce Committee's gavel.
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Who are the dissident Democrats trying to deny Nancy Pelosi the speaker's gavel?
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To win back the gavel, Ms. Pelosi defused a rebellion in her caucus.
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RuPaul's Drag Race The House of Deleganzas is now in session (gavel smash).
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Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who challenged Ryan for the Speaker's gavel last year.
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For a while, there were suggestions that she would still gavel in proceedings.
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No different than a sinner seeing Jesus once the judge bangs the gavel.
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History could repeat itself if McCarthy once again vies for the Speaker's gavel.
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Earlier this year, Speier dropped out of her bid for the Oversight gavel.
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Risch hasn't said whether he will seek the committee's gavel going into 2019.
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Steve Chabot of Ohio are both pursuing the Judiciary Committee gavel, and Rep.
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Lacy ClayWilliam (Lacy) Lacy Clay'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Speier to run for Oversight gavel Maloney to serve as acting Oversight chairwoman after Cummings's death MORE (D-Mo.), neither of whom are running this time around.
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It's very rare for a member of the minority party to control the gavel.
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When Shelby took the gavel, industry sources expected a push to ease financial regulations.
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Richard Shelby (Ala.), who will lose his gavel due to Republican conference term limits.
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Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who unsuccessfully ran against Chaffetz for the gavel in 2014.
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"Next time, you bang that gavel," Young shouted at Collins while shaking his fist.
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Burr bangs his gavel, marking an end of Haspel's open hearing 12:15 p.m.
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In a yearbook photograph, she is wearing a judge's robe and wielding a gavel.
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Little time remains for anyone else to make a play for a committee gavel.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore pounded the gavel to open the convention instead.
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Rep. Joe Barton wants another shot at the House Energy and Commerce Committee's gavel.
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Nancy Pelosi was rubbing her hands together every day to get that gavel back.
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Many have yet to fully endorse Ms. Pelosi's bid to reclaim the speaker's gavel.
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David Brooks Opinion Columnist What's bad for the gavel is good for the pen.
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One lawmaker, Zal Mohammad Zalmay, rushed at Mr. Osuli while wielding the speaker's gavel.
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Nancy Pelosi is preparing to take back the gavel as speaker of the House.
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Mr. Massie and a handful of others shouted "no!" just before the gavel fell.
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"I would use that to slam the gavel on any debate," Mr. Hutton said.
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With no gavel to register her displeasure, Judge Bell extended her middle finger instead.
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Before banging his gavel to recess the meeting that began at 9:00 a.m.
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In just seven minutes, the work was over, and Mr. Nadler banged his gavel.
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Russell is considered a long shot to win the coveted, high-profile gavel. Rep.
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Another gavel will rap in Cleveland, on July 18th, calling the Convention to order.
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The city and its police force will find itself squarely in the glare of gavel-to-gavel international media attention as an estimated 50,000 visitors—a mix of politicians and delegates, protesters and dignitaries—take over downtown Cleveland from July 18 to 21.
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Today it comprises several television and radio channels and a web presence, offering a variety of gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress, presidential campaign events and other public affairs programming, including lectures and forums, book reviews, viewer call-in programs and interviews.
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People in the gallery chanted "shame" as the gavel came down about 7:30 p.m.
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That's because the newly inaugurated U.S. president has been banging the gavel of protectionist rhetoric.
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With her party triumphant during the 2018 midterm elections, Pelosi has officially reclaimed the gavel.
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He backed Jordan to get the gavel, noting he's a longtime leader on the panel.
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Ryan will likely leave office with Nancy Pelosi or another Democrat taking his speaker's gavel.
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I can't gavel you down and say you can't ask that question, although I tried.
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Months later, the Democrats lost 63 seats, and the gavel shifted back to the Republicans.
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There was no gavel to launch the proceedings (too dangerous), but eventually the debate began.
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Schiff threatened to gavel Jordan down unless he got to the point of his question.
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When announcing the bill's passage minutes later, a smiling Ryan enthusiastically slammed down a gavel.
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Any wrongdoer who walks into a room and sees both of them behind the gavel?
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to gavel in the hearing at 10 am Thursday.
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Ms. Fenet is off and running long before her gavel hits the wooden sound block.
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The widespread assumption in Democratic circles is that Nancy Pelosi will reclaim the speaker's gavel.
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He printed one student's design, a gavel, representing the struggle for justice in the novel.
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One of Pelosi's closest allies, however, is publicly expressing interest in the speaker's gavel. Rep.
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Ryan plans to become a former Speaker in January, and Pelosi previously held the gavel.
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If there's no gavel to pick up next year, we return to the back benches.
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Then, Chaffetz announced he was challenging his one-time ally McCarthy for the Speaker's gavel.
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There are also some other politics at play in the race for the Oversight gavel.
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In Fairbanks, Alaska, last week, the United States passed the Arctic Council gavel to Finland.
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His heir to the gavel, Chairwoman Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersWhat are not criteria for impeachment?
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The only woman to hold the post, she reclaimed the gavel she lost in 2011.
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So, as has been the case for many years, when senators are away from Washington for extended periods, a least one senator will trudge to the chamber every three days to lead a brief gavel-in, gavel-out pro forma session to prevent recess appointments.
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Stephen Colbert has kicked off this week's Republican National Convention with a bang – of his gavel.
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Democrats simply have few options to permanently block judicial nominees while the GOP holds the gavel.
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Joe Barton (R-Texas) for the Energy and Commerce gavel in a hotly contested 2016 race.
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That that judgement is for that man wearing that black coat with a gavel and God.
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When he marches into the film set and bangs his cane (the pimp's gavel), he's scared.
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During his time clasping the speaker's gavel, Boehner scrapped with rank-and-file Republicans over immigration.
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When the convention begins in full next week, House Speaker Paul Ryan will hold the gavel.
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After some intense bidding, the gavel went down and Ford's remaining pockets were lined with $191,000.
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They are likely to reinvigorate the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation when they get the gavel.
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To clinch the gavel, a candidate must win the majority support of voting members, excluding abstentions.
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The contenders for the gavel are laying out cases that are equal parts politics and policy.
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Speaker Pro Tempore Bill Dunn (R) will take over the gavel when Casada's resignation becomes official.
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The Hill reported that Gowdy was reaching out to Steering Committee members about the Oversight gavel.
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"Thirty years!" the judge announced, as he slammed his gavel and avoided eye contact with me.
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Pelosi is attempting the rare feat of securing the speaker's gavel for a non-consecutive term.
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It received the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award and is now in its 11th printing.
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The speaker who wielded that gavel on that day was, for the first time, a woman.
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" And the visual will feature "Nancy Pelosi standing behind him over him, literally, with that gavel.
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That could give them more leverage to extract promises from other colleagues vying for the gavel.
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With Ryan now holding the gavel, the Democrats say, the targeted funding push has new legs.
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First, though, Pelosi will have to win the gavel -- without the support of Democrats like Davis.
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Five months after taking the gavel, you're seeing him do exactly what he said he'd do.
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When the gavel went down, Republicans in the chamber cheered with a palpable sense of relief.
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House Democrats need to gain 24 seats to hand Nancy Pelosi the speaker's gavel once again.
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A GOP aide confirmed on Tuesday that Jordan has decided not to seek the Oversight gavel.
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HABERMAN: This is your first experience dealing with Nancy Pelosi having the gavel as the speaker.
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At times, Democratic objectors attempted to lodge complains over Biden's attempts to gavel the session along.
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Pelosi, who received a standing ovation from Democrats and many Republicans, accepted the speaker's gavel from McCarthy.
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Throughout her career as Speaker of the House, Pelosi's gavel has become a symbol of her power.
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Ryan attempted to ignore the outbursts and announce the business of the day, pounding down his gavel.
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Roger didn't answer the question, too distracted by the gavel and the book and the new surroundings.
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Each side knows there's more at stake than who holds the gavel at biweekly village council meetings.
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Instead of sniffing out suspicious activity, Gavel now serves his country by welcoming guests and tour groups.
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With former Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) taking up the gavel at the energy subcommittee and Rep.
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Paycheck penalties go beyond the reach of the gavel and mace as symbols of order and decorum.
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He had remarks prepared to that effect, and he read them out loud and banged his gavel.
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John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who is running to take over the committee's gavel, was just as critical.
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Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who challenged Ryan for the Speaker's gavel in 2015 but not this year.
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Democrats have been at loggerheads with the president since they won back the speaker's gavel in 2018.
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The group made the announcement shortly after Jordan officially announced his bid for the gavel on Thursday.
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Only two hours after election results started trickling in, CNN correspondent Jake Tapper brought the gavel down.
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Lawmakers jump-start talks on privacy bill MORE (R-Miss.) to take the gavel for that committee.
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She would give up the gavel and end the death watch and, with any luck, the distraction.
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Just the threat of Pelosi retaking the gavel has been used by Republicans to motivate their voters.
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Greg Walden's (R-Ore.) first time holding the gavel since his elevation to the post last year.
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Jordan unsuccessfully ran for the Oversight gavel in 85033, losing to Chaffetz in a four-way race.
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Chairman Chuck Grassley hit the gavel around 9:35 AM and tried to give his opening statements.
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This set allows you to open those roasted chestnuts with the authority of a gavel-wielding judge.
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"Fine," one Redditor screams from the back as the judge furiously wraps the gavel on her desk.
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Watch: Nancy Pelosi, who in 28 became the first woman elected speaker, reclaimed the gavel on Thursday.
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Likewise, she has no suggestions for who might take her congressional seat or take the budget gavel.
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At moments when the gatherings grew a bit unruly, he did not hesitate to bang his gavel.
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But it quickly devolved from a staid courtroom drama into a raucous, gavel-banging, partisan verbal melee.
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ET on Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee will gavel in for the hearing with Hill and Holmes.
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He at last took the gavel of the Armed Services Committee, an assignment he had long coveted.
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And, Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan, of Ohio, has also announced he's running for the gavel.
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She's wearing a black robe, white jabot, silk gloves, heeled loafers and is holding a hardwood gavel.
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And that could put Maloney in prime position to assume the gavel, according to lawmakers and aides.
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By the time the auctioneer's gavel went silent, $45.5 million worth of cars had found new owners.
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"If Democrats take back the gavel, that will be a top priority," said Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne.
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It seems pretty clear at this point that Pelosi is going to triumph and retake the gavel.
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It was a splendid collection, and each rap of the auctioneer's gavel struck like an executioner's blow.
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Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, rapped the gavel to call the hearing to order.
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Democrats had unexpectedly sat down in the middle of the House of Representatives chamber to demand a vote on gun control legislation, and with the body officially in recess, C-Span, the cable network known for "gavel to gavel" coverage of Congress, had no means to cover it.
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"Mining the vast Court TV library of more than a thousand trials provides the new opportunity to tell compelling true-crime stories and create captivating content supporting our live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the country's top current trials," said Jonathan Katz, president and CEO of Katz Networks.
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Pallone, however, prevailed in a vote of the full caucus and now holds the Energy and Commerce gavel.
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Democrats need to gain 30 House seats to allow Nancy Pelosi to reclaim the Speaker's gavel from Ryan.
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The Washington Post earlier this week reported that Speier was running for the Oversight gavel, citing anonymous sources.
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When members of her party started celebrating the outcome, Pelosi glared and fiercely silenced them with her gavel.
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After Alaska contested the delegate count, Ryan brought the convention back to order by banging the ceremonial gavel.
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Trump tweeted his approval about the outcome of the vote a few minutes after the gavel was struck.
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If he loses with 41 percent of the vote, Paul Ryan probably hands the gavel to Nancy Pelosi.
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In 1992, the Senate presented him with its Golden Gavel Award for presiding for at least 100 hours.
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Pelosi's gavel lets her force votes on issues where Republican orthodoxy stands at odds with broader public opinion.
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Ryan after becoming Speaker helped Huelskamp win a subcommittee gavel and a slot on the powerful Steering Committee.
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Gowdy is eighth in seniority and would need to leapfrog a number of colleagues to win the gavel.
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The Republican members of the communications and technology subcommittee, where Walden recently handed off the gavel to Rep.
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They say McHenry would likely claim the gavel with little or no competition, citing his experience and seniority.
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Ryan had helped Huelskamp win a Small Business subcommittee gavel and a seat on the influential Steering Committee.
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Whoever wields the gavel will have a significant platform to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress.
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Those lawmakers say they expect to rally enough opposition to Pelosi to prevent her from regaining the gavel.
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Yet she has focused her efforts in recent months on the same defense gavel that Rogers is eyeing.
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Since claiming the gavel, Grijalva has elevated Puerto Rico from the insular affairs panel to full committee status.
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Pelosi, 78, is battling to retake the Speaker's gavel she lost in a red wave eight years ago.
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Graves chairs the panel's subcommittee on highways and transit and is eyeing the committee's gavel after Shuster's retirement.
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"When women take the gavel, Congress responds to the major issues facing working families today," it reads. Rep.
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A CSPAN video showed that nine Democrats and three Republicans had not voted when the gavel came down.
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Based on projections, Pelosi could likely lose between 12 and 17 Democratic votes and still secure the gavel.
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Former Pelosi staffers in the influence world found themselves in the spotlight after she regained the Speaker's gavel.
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"I think he was crying when he gave me the gavel as Speaker of the House," Pelosi said.
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NEW BRITAIN "Beneath the Gavel," interactive performance about high-end art auctions from the Bated Breath Theater Company.
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Ocasio-Cortez said earlier this month that she would support the California Democrat's bid for the Speaker's gavel.
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Without the Freedom Caucus, another candidate for speaker could be denied the necessary votes to win the gavel.
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The four blue states are expected to take center stage in the 2020 fight for the speaker's gavel.
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"What people wanted me to do was to gavel down other senators who were harassing her," Biden said.
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Fred Upton (R-Mich.) needs to yield the Energy gavel because of term limits, and Walden and Rep.
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The exchange is one of administrative frenzy: Pelosi, with gavel in hand, striking the podium with earned validation.
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On Friday, the Missouri House will gavel in for a monthlong special session to consider disciplining the governor.
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Judge Barbie is available in different ethnicities and wears a classic judge's robe with a gavel in hand.
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The debate got so heated that Cummings repeatedly slammed his gavel to bring the committee back to order.
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Many in the group think Ryan has done a good job communicating with conservatives since taking the gavel.
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The lack of interest in the gavel underscores how politically tricky and toxic many Republicans view the job.
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Republicans refused, for the most part, to work with Obama after taking then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's gavel.
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He could vie for the gavel again, though McCarthy could be facing some stiff competition this time around.
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Graves is making an early bid for the coveted gavel, which will be up for grabs in 2019.
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The magic number for control of the Speaker's gavel is 218, and the House Democrats hold 193 seats.
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" Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said Slaughter "did not need a gavel to make a dent in history.
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Collins hinted during an interview with Newsradio WGAN in Maine that she has the Appropriations gavel in mind.
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The race is on for House Democrats in Congress — and not just for who gets to hold the gavel.
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Bidding started at a mere 500 yen ($4.67) but quickly climbed to more than $5,000 when the gavel fell.
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Nancy Pelosi, who reclaimed the House speaker's gavel Thursday, told reporters before her chamber's votes to reopen the government.
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Nancy Pelosi, who reclaimed the speaker's gavel Thursday, has to strike a delicate balance as her party gains power.
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Still, Pelosi could persuade others who are not currently supporting her to back her bid for the speaker's gavel.
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As much as I tried to intervene I did not have the power to gavel them out of order.
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Here's video with sound: Speaker Ryan forgets how to use a gavel so he tells everyone to 'shhh' instead.pic.twitter.
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If you're at #SBC17, get in the convention hall and stay till last gavel" and calling racial injustice "satanism.
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was supposed to wield the gavel at the convention, instead announced her resignation.
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As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order.
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Since taking the majority and speaker's gavel back last month, Pelosi has had to manage an ideologically diverse caucus.
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John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), the former committee chairman, in the race for the gavel.
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If she runs, Black will have to give up her gavel just four months into her new Budget role.
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The Wisconsin lawmaker will need 218 votes on the House floor to retain the Speaker's gavel during a Jan.
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But to start with, the groups want to guarantee that Bayh can't get his hands on the Banking gavel.
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There are certainly some Republicans who are itching to take some more votes before they give up the gavel.
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" Democrats continued to ask for a vote, but Grassley repeatedly banged his gavel and said the motion was "denied.
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Pelosi has invited a star-studded guest list to witness history when she reclaims the Speaker's gavel on Thursday.
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To win back the Speaker's gavel for Nancy Pelosi, Democrats need a net gain of 248 seats in 213.
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The Hastert Rule forces whoever holds the Speaker's gavel to ice the other party out of the legislative process.
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), who's in line to take the Rules gavel if the House flips, said by phone.
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It's a moment that has Nancy Pelosi feeling a sense of urgency to once again hold the speaker's gavel.
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When they reconvene next year, House Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn (D) is likely to take the Speaker's gavel.
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Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) brought down the gavel and walked out as Hoyer was trying to make his motion.
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He last held the gavel about a decade ago and will make his case for another chance to lead.
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But only an anti-Trump wave might give her back the speaker's gavel eight years after she lost it.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business.
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Another silver lining for Pelosi's plans to retake the gavel is the lack of an obvious heir apparent. Rep.
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Sarah Palin ain't Judge Judy ... but the 2 will have exactly the same power when they pound the gavel.
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The door to the room where Andy Warhol filmed Edie Sedgwick in Chelsea Girls got the gavel at $2000,500.
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Regaining the speaker's gavel eight years after losing it, Pelosi remains the only woman ever to occupy the post.
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But with 32 voting no, she was well short of what she'll need to reclaim the gavel in January.
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Katie Hill was in DC and felt Trump got off easy -- Pelosi should have used the gavel on him.
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Mitch McConnell: Like his predecessor, Chief Justice Rehnquist, the Senate will be awarding Chief Justice Roberts the golden gavel.
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But if Trump's Republicans lose 26 seats, it'll be Nancy Pelosi or another Democrat wielding the gavel come January.
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Pelosi with her speaker's gavel has, yes, a certain kind of power, but the commander of a grassroots army?
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"In other words, I want you to proceed until you get an answer," Grassley shouted, repeatedly banging his gavel.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) bangs his gavel in an attempt to quiet ranking member Rep.
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William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), another senior Oversight member who decided not to seek the gavel, leading the discussion.
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A source close to Jeffries, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, said he has "zero" interest in the Oversight gavel.
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"She partly owes her gavel to Mayor Bloomberg and his spending last cycle," said a senior House Democratic source.
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Opinion Columnist On Thursday, the best House speaker of modern times reclaimed her gavel, replacing one of the worst.
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The naysayers were already backing off and it was clear that the gavel would be back in her hands.
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And how is she supposed to have a comprehensive climate plan already when she hasn't even taken the gavel?
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House Democrats will wield the speaker's gavel once again, and with it, the power to investigate the Trump administration.
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The Republican victory means that the Speaker of the House gavel stays in the hands of Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan.
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If Democrats pursue the fourth serious presidential impeachment effort in American history, Nadler would wield the gavel when it starts.
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Lynch, who chairs Oversight's National Security subcommittee, touted his background as a former attorney in his pitch for the gavel.
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The Democratic speaker has been exciting the internet for years with her fiery remarks, claps, points, and legendary gavel moves.
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After trying and failing to get the sound he desired, Ryan makes a desperate move and hits the gavel sideways.
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He passed the gavel to Sri Srinivasan, the first person of South Asian descent to lead a federal circuit court.
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IN RECENT years, the Supreme Court has made a habit of waving a gavel and turning blockbuster cases into duds.
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If you like this, give us a gavel in the Senate, and give us a pen in the White House.
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"If you like this, give us a gavel in the Senate and give us a pen in the White House."
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Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, laid down his gavel and walked out in frustration.
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And while Gavel, the almost-police-dog, may have had a stellar sniffer, he was just a little too ... nice.
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Democrat Nancy Pelosi won the vote for speaker of the House on Thursday, reclaiming the gavel for her second time.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus bangs the gavel to officially open the first day of the Republican National Convention.
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"The gavel comes down hard on Attorney General Jeff Sessions," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
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Republican leaders had weighed stripping Frelinghuysen's gavel over the tax vote, Politico reported last December, but never pulled the trigger.
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Upon taking the gavel at the start of the year, Pelosi had invited Trump to give the address on Jan.
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In several respects, Pelosi faces a more grueling landscape than she did in first taking the Speaker's gavel in 85033.
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Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, who was presiding over the House floor, tossed his gavel and declared, "I abandon the chair."
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Jordan is thought to be angling for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee gavel, which will be available next year.
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Foxx appears to have a clear shot at securing the gavel of the House Education and the Workforce Committee. Rep.
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Judge Gorsuch should have to answer questions about which side his judicial gavel will land on issues affecting everyday voters.
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Beyond proud to serve in the most diverse Congress in our nation's history and to hold the gavel today. pic.twitter.
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Hensarling, who showed visible frustration, repeatedly banging the gavel to remind Waters that she wasn't in line to speak, declined.
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Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who challenged Ryan for the Speaker's gavel in 22019 but backed the Wisconsin Republican this year.
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And several other underlying ingredients of the current terrain have given Republicans some hope they can retain the Speaker's gavel.
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McCarthy still has to win the support of the conference and endure a months-long race for the speaker's gavel.
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"The gavel comes down hard on Attorney General Jeff Sessions," says Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
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Both parties may need to defy that trend if they hope to end up controlling the Senate gavel in 2021.
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Now, she retakes that gavel at a little time of incredible importance in which we need Democrats to stick together.
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The chief justice of the State Supreme Court had, for a second time, been forced to give up his gavel.
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John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who carries more seniority on the panel and has already signaled he's running for the gavel.
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It plays out with gavel banging, interruptions and raised voices -- even if the political shoe is on the other foot.
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Before the judge could strike his gavel, a gaggle of TV producers rushed out of the court's double doors yelling.
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He controls the gavel of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, which controls hundreds of billions of dollars for Pentagon programs.
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The shift would require current Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to swap his gavel for the Finance Committee chairmanship.
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The two men served together on the House Ways and Means Committee — and Nunes holds the gavel at his discretion.
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But she announced she's handing over the gavel this month as she turns her focus to the Tennessee governor's race.
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And by the time Schiff's gavel fell Thursday, they believed they had successfully shown the impeachment case to be weak.
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"When they tell me something is unpalatable politically, I listen because my gavel depends on them coming back," Cole said.
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Brady's gavel struck down at 4:15 am, ending the Ways and Means hearing after nearly 18 hours of debate.
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Maxine Waters, in which he offered her unprompted advice on how to conduct a hearing as he mimicked pounding a gavel.
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Reporters in the press gallery above him gasped, thinking there were still several hours to go before the gavel went down.
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Ryan faces a vote next Tuesday to keep his job as speaker and appears in good position to keep his gavel.
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The torpor of the typical proceeding was broken moments after Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of the Judiciary Committee, used his gavel.
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His claim to that mantle grew even stronger three years after that, when he reluctantly took the gavel as House speaker.
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After November's midterm elections, he received national attention for leading a failed effort to deny Nancy Pelosi the House speaker's gavel.
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Throughout her many years in politics, Pelosi's been quick to steal the show with her iconic suits and gavel-wagging ways.
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Earlier this year, he told Politico in a profile that he still had hopes of reclaiming the Energy and Commerce gavel.
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Why it matters: This vote of confidence in Pelosi comes as she is attempting to regain the gavel as House speaker.
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"As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order," he added.
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With the gavel and majority support on her side, Pelosi drew her line against a White House policy of make-believe.
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Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) — both said they're not interested in trading their current Appropriations subcommittee gavels for the Budget gavel.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell has faced no dissenting votes since he took over the gavel at the policysetting panel last February.
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There are several things Pelosi and her allies could do to punish the rebels if she gets the gavel, as expected.
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Her office didn't respond to an inquiry from The Hill on Monday about her interest in the Energy and Commerce gavel.
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Even if Bilirakis were to pass on the gavel, the next five members in seniority on the committee are all men.
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House Republicans chose Gowdy to become the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee, taking over the gavel from former Rep.
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Under the House GOP's rules limiting chairmen to three two-year terms, Chaffetz could have kept the Oversight gavel through 2020.
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If Democrats win back the House in next year's midterm elections, Nadler would hold the gavel if impeachment proceedings are initiated.
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The former speaker of the House is also lobbying to regain the speaker's gavel if Democrats retake the House in November.
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RELATED: Nancy Pelosi elected House speaker, reclaims gavel to lead Democrats' new majority After she took the oath, administered by Rep.
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As Speaker Pelosi reclaims the gavel in the House, the nation will be closely watching for her first few legislative moves.
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Jordan — who says he has been directly targeted by Twitter's anti-conservative bias — also is challenging McCarthy for the Speaker's gavel.
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Pelosi has repeatedly insisted that she believes Democrats will retake the House and that she intends to reclaim the Speaker's gavel.
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Hours before claiming the gavel, Pelosi sought to pump the brakes on talk within her conference of impeaching Trump (The Hill).
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If Pelosi took the gavel, Democratic-led committee investigations of Trump, his tax returns, his family and his administration would follow.
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It's not that higher math is required to wield a hammer (that's what it's called, by the way, not a gavel).
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A furious Mr. Hatch then raised his gavel and slammed it against the dais nine times to silence the Ohio senator.
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In accepting the speaker's gavel late on Thursday, Gantz said the coronavirus epidemic required what he called a "national emergency government".
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Never has the California Democrat been so close to regaining the speaker's gavel since losing it in a wipeout in 2010.
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Pelosi reclaimed her gavel as Speaker after Democrats won back the majority in the lower chamber during the 2628 midterm elections.
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In addition to his Armed Services subpanel, Graham also wields the gavel for the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Terrorism subcommittee.
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In 2020, Chaffetz will have to relinquish his Oversight gavel due to term limits, leaving him searching for another political opportunity.
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The rule change would not only be a tall order for Pelosi but for any Democrat who wants the speaker's gavel.
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Every time the hearing threatened to careen into conflict, Nadler deployed a heavier-than-expected gavel to keep things on course.
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Before wielding the Energy and Commerce gavel, Walden spent years chairing the panel's telecommunications subcommittee that oversees the Federal Communications Commission.
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Watch as Nancy Pelosi retakes the gavel for House speaker and a historic new class of Congress members is sworn in:
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But she quickly started speaking again while Biden repeatedly slammed the gavel and Republicans began shouting for "order" in the chamber.
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Followers named themselves #GravelGang or #Gravelanche — a portmanteau that relies on mispronouncing the candidate's name, which rhymes with lapel, not gavel.
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"As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order," he said.
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To take back the gavel, Democrats would need to defend a tough seat in Alabama and win three seats above that.
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Here's who came out ahead this term and who may be traumatized by the sound of a gavel in the future.
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To reclaim the speaker's gavel, Pelosi navigated 2018 midterm elections in which she took a drubbing from Republicans and even many Democrats.
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Once, during a congressional committee hearing, the chairman banged a gavel — clap — on the desk, and Williams fell out of his seat.
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KIERON O'HARAWoking On the case "Gavel down" (September 9th) assessed the legal work of Richard Posner, but slightly misquoted his new book.
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Sharp, the chief auctioneer at Macdonald & Co Woolbrokers, uses an abbreviated swing of his gavel to swiftly work through the day's offerings.
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Gowdy did not respond to questions about his interest in the gavel on Thursday as he entered the House floor for votes.
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John Duncan (R-Tenn.) and former Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), neither of whom are making a play for the gavel.
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Stealing the ref's red card and using it against him is like stealing a judge's gavel, and smacking his block with it.
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Ryan will need 2628 votes on the House floor — half plus one of the House's 28500 members — to retain the Speaker's gavel.
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Vern BuchananVernon Gale BuchananMORE (R) in the 85033th District, could be pivotal in deciding who will hold the Speaker's gavel next year.
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Under House GOP rules, Chaffetz could have kept the Oversight gavel until 2628, when he would have reached the three-term limit.
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At the high end, that still falls below the 30-seat gain Democrats need to return the speaker's gavel to Nancy Pelosi.
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Her supporters and opponents know that in running unchallenged, she'll win Wednesday's majority vote for her party's nomination for the Speaker's gavel.
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The House Freedom Caucus is calling for the House to stay in session through next week rather than gavel out from Jan.
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The opening for the House Energy and Commerce Committee gavel is also shaping up to be a contest between multiple men. Reps.
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Those shutdown talks will overshadow praise for any last acts of unified government Republicans can muster before Pelosi seizes the speaker's gavel.
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Vice President Pence, who was presiding over the vote, banged his gavel several times during the vote in attempts to silence protesters.
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Neal, a business-minded Democrat who has waited years for the gavel on Ways and Means, finds himself in a unique position.
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Jeffries, these sources said, could seek the Speaker's gavel if Pelosi drops out, while Luján could make a bid for majority leader.
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"Excuse me, I have the floor," said Mr. Garrett, not long before the chairman's gavel brought the unenlightening exchange to an end.
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The effort led the House GOP to gavel the chamber into recess, and prevented the majority from moving forward with its schedule.
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Presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has zero desire to acquiesce to the President during her first hours with a gavel in hand.
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Every speaker from the party served as majority or minority leader before taking the gavel, and only one was clearly pushed out.
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Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who had hoped for some kind of gavel after being term-limited as the full Appropriations Committee chairman.
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As long as the conversation is on Reddit, you can either play to the rules, or receive the red gavel of suspension.
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Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), who is next in line for the gavel in terms of seniority, also wants to chair the committee.
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Granger's bid for the Appropriations gavel, as well as a potential Texas power play to boost her chances, is a sensitive subject.
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Similarly, gerrymandering and geography means that Democrats need to win a substantial majority in the House popular vote to take the gavel.
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Today we're talking to BuzzFeed news's Emma Loop about Adam Schiff, the man with the gavel running this week's live impeachment hearings.
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The endorsement all but guarantees Foxx — a current member of the GOP leadership team — will win the committee gavel later this fall.
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But it's worth noting another significant difference: which party's president is being impeached, and which party holds the gavel in the House.
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When Kaptur initially sought the gavel against Lowey in 2012, fundraising was often one of the first subjects their colleagues asked about.
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He won a Peabody Award for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, three Emmys and two American Bar Association Silver Gavel awards.
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"Bang the gavel harder — still doesn't make it right," said Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
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As committee chairman, Schiff kept a tight grip on the gavel, infuriating Republicans who allege he hasn't been conducting a fair process.
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Indeed, when Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee requested background check hearings in 2010, when they controlled the gavel, they were refused.
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So far, there are only whispers about who will take the gavel, with some lawmakers and aides floating Oversight members like Rep.
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But with the gavel in hand and an energized new class of liberal Democrats enthusiastically supporting her, Ms. Pelosi only dug in.
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When the bill passed the House, a giddy Mr. Ryan smiled broadly and banged the gavel with force as he declared victory.
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It was in front of him, when he looked out upon the room, and in back, as Ms. Pelosi wielded her gavel.
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Without Senate support, the House Democrats' protest repeatedly met Biden's heavy gavel, and Democrats mounting the protests grew more and more exasperated.
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As the gavel banged down on the $1.3 million Sotheby's sale, the work shredded before the auction house's eyes — and chaos ensued.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it the "the existential threat of our time" in the first speech of her second stint with the gavel.
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The combative approach is partly an outgrowth of Democrats' strategy of maximizing their oversight authority in the House once they wield the gavel.
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If Pelosi tells the 234-member Democratic Caucus she doesn't want a messy fight for the gavel, Speier said she will back off.
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LIKE the showman he sometimes was, Peter Sutherland, on December 15th 1993, concluded seven years of torturous trade negotiations by banging a gavel.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, wielding the gavel at the State of the Union for the first time, sped through the formalities.
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Vice President Mike Pence, who sat in the chamber as president of the Senate, repeatedly used his gavel to attempt to restore order.
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Shimkus said that he would likely delegate a rewrite to the chair of the technology subcommittee if he takes the full committee gavel.
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Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) to challenge Pelosi for the Speaker's gavel, but turned instead to attempting to oust Pelosi's top two deputies, Rep.
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The party needs a net gain of 2023 seats — including several vacancies they are likely to win easily — to wrest the Speaker's gavel.
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Pelosi has led the party since 2003, becoming the first female Speaker in the nation's history when she took the gavel in 2007.
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But Inhofe, who will retain his gavel next year, has previously said $733 billion should be considered a floor for next year's budget.
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If McCarthy were to stumble again, many GOP lawmakers believe Scalise, the No. 85033 Republican, will make a concerted bid for the gavel.
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How strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the committee chairman, and enforcement has fluctuated depending on who wields the gavel. Sen.
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The 32 votes against Pelosi, the current minority leader, would be enough to prevent her from winning the Speaker's gavel in a Jan.
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Womack, a leadership ally who was part of the 2010 class that took back the majority, was a favorite for the coveted gavel.
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Pelosi, when she held the gavel, was hammered — largely by Republicans — with charges that she ran the chamber out of the Speaker's office.
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Yet he has assumed the gavel in an era when congressional leaders, following partisan imperatives, have increasingly curbed the independence of committee chiefs.
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"It's primarily an issue for the courts," said Smith, who is expected to wield the gavel when Democrats control the House in January.
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But how strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the committee chairman, and enforcement has fluctuated depending on who wields the gavel.
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The uproar could jeopardize his chances at the gavel of another high-profile committee he has pursued in the past: Ways and Means.
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Jerry Nadler, told CNN that, immediately upon taking the gavel, he will seek to question Whitaker about his expressed hostility to Mueller's investigation.
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In an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed McCarthy to take the gavel to succeed him.
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After making a number of deals with potential detractors, Pelosi ultimately secured the Speaker's gavel, bringing in 220 votes from within her caucus.
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Jason Chaffetz retired mid-term, giving up the gavel of the House's oversight committee and opening up this seat in reliably Republican Utah.
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And Ms. Wasserman Schultz had announced that she would not, as tradition dictates, strike the gavel to open the convention later that day.
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While Bloomberg is clearly fond of Pelosi, his goal of flipping the House could clash with her objective of regaining the speaker's gavel.
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But CNN's Phil Mattingly says don't believe the caricature, as the California Democrat takes the gavel of the key House Financial Services Committee.
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All of that smooths the path for Democrats to recapture the House in November and hand Nancy Pelosi the speaker's gavel once again.
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Pelosi's intraparty battle at age 85003 to capture the gavel one more time has exploded into a national political campaign (The Washington Post).
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Their first order of business as the House majority will be to decide whether to put the speaker's gavel back in Pelosi's hands.
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All three leaders have given every indication they're hoping to remain in power if the Democrats win back the Speaker's gavel next year.
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And if Ryan stuck around, he'd return to a House very likely overrun by Democrats and end up handing over his speaker's gavel.
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Rumor has it, if you listen carefully enough, you can even pick up on the sound of a gavel in the 'dun dun.
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After several gavel slams ... order was restored to the House floor, but fair to say D.C. is lit right now on this topic!
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So does all of this mean that the GOP will continue to wield the Speaker's gavel, even as Ryan heads for the exit?
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He'll likely hand the gavel to Crapo, the second-most senior Republican on the panel that oversees U.S. banks and federal bank regulators.
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There's no clear successor for Boustany, but whoever takes his gavel could play an integral role in polishing and shepherding Trump's tax reform.
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On Tuesday, the incel subreddit disappeared from the internet forum and was replaced with a symbol of a gavel on a red background.
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With the gavel in reach, she has been quietly pushing her bipartisan credentials and is promising an "open door policy" to all parties.
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Nancy Pelosi is one step closer to reclaiming the speaker's gavel, and the strikingly diverse freshman class weighed in for the first time.
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The Internet, it's also reflection on how that same panel lowers its gavel differently for women, especially young women, than it does men.
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Senator majority leader Mitch McConnell seemed particularly buoyant after engineering this result, passing on something called the golden gavel to the chief justice.
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Seeking a third gavel would require a waiver from Senate leadership, but the South Carolina Republican didn't request one, according to a spokesman.
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Gowdy, who led the select panel that investigated the 2012 attack in Benghazi, has not formally announced whether he'll seek the Oversight gavel.
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Under the plain terms of the US Constitution and Senate rules, Roberts could wield a powerful gavel and rule on evidence and witnesses.
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Pelosi said that no one is above the law, but so long as McConnell keeps his seat and his gavel, Trump arguably is.
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The report will go to the House Judiciary Committee, whose chair, Jerrold Nadler, will gavel open a new set of hearings on Wednesday.
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Procedurally, once the clock expires on a vote, the lawmaker holding the gavel usually asks if any members want to change their votes.
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Chabot is also in a strong position to seek the House Foreign Affairs Committee gavel, another panel he says he's interested in leading.
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With the gavel in hand, she will cement her status as the highest-ranking and most powerful elected woman in American political history.
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But by the time the gavel fell in the Ways and Means hearing room, the Democrats had already made clear they were undeterred.
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But Pelosi became the first speaker in 60 years to reclaim the gavel after losing it — ultimately using it to impeach President Trump.
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Correction: An earlier headline of this story said Pelosi was the second person in history to reclaim the speaker's gavel after losing it.
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The big picture: After becoming the first female speaker of the House in 2007, she became the second one today by reclaiming the gavel.
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After banging the gavel several times in an unsuccessful attempt to clear the protesters, Poe announced the chamber would be in recess and left.
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Some Democratic members appear to want assurances that Pelosi would only hold the speaker's gavel for two more years in order to support her.
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Indivisible has also supported Pelosi's bid for the speaker's gavel, and called on her to put freshmen representatives such as Tlaib on key committees.
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With Democrats holding the gavel in the House, they've seized the opportunity — even if the bill is a dead man walking in the Senate.
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WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi is close to regaining the speaker's gavel, after House Democrats nominated her for the job in a closed-door meeting Wednesday.
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Pelosi was under additional scrutiny ahead of this meeting, as she is working to secure the votes to regain the speaker's gavel in January.
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Some threatened to undermine his bid to win the speakership by voting against him and denying him the 218 votes to retain the gavel.
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If Democrats were to win control of the House, Representative Eliot Engel, currently the foreign affairs ranking Democrat, is expected to take the gavel.
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Whoever wins, one thing appears certain: they will have a boot on their neck and a gavel poised to strike them over the head.
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As she wrapped up the speech, which went over the limit by mere seconds, Schwertner banged his gavel over a glass tabletop, shattering it.
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Simply because it had made an effort to eradicate anything obscene or abusive from its online forums, a gavel was dropped on Prodigy's head.
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Essentially, they'll gavel into session every few days -- perhaps even for just minutes at a time -- through Labor Day to keep the lights on.
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Whoever holds the gavel will also shoulder the difficult and complex task of shepherding legislation through Congress under a process known as budget reconciliation.
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She has maintained a consistent view on the subject since reclaiming the Speaker's gavel, arguing it would have to be clear-cut and bipartisan.
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The chances of significant wins at home also seem slim, given the gridlock that will descend on Washington when Democrats take the House gavel.
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He reclaimed control of the House, pounding his gavel and muscling through a major appropriations bill that included funding for combating the Zika virus.
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Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri became so frustrated with the partisan squabbling, he dropped his gavel and abandoned his position presiding over the House floor.
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And additional opposition from new arrivals would mean she may need a larger cushion to secure the gavel heading into the 2020 presidential cycle.
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Kurtyka earlier this year moved from being deputy energy minister to deputy environment minister, in time to bang his gavel at the climate talks.
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The feat of taking the gavel in nonconsecutive Congresses also secures Pelosi a place in the record books, alongside such historic figures as Reps.
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The Democrats need to pick off 23 seats to retake the Speaker's gavel — a high bar given the heavy gerrymandering of the congressional map.
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He has spine but his style is not the way the most passionate in his party would like to see him use his gavel.
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But Chabot is also in a strong position to seek the House Foreign Affairs Committee gavel, another panel he says he's interested in leading.
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The House Freedom Caucus isn't actively fielding a candidate, and not a single lawmaker has yet announced they'll seek the speaker's gavel. http://bit.
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Pelosi predicted in no uncertain terms that she'll retake the Speaker's gavel she lost after the Democrats were walloped at the polls in 2628.
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Pelosi's four defection were a stark improvement over the 19 she faced in 85033, after the Democrats lost 63 seats — and the House gavel.
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Clay Shaw (R) of Florida, who chaired the Florida delegation and was poised to take the gavel of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee.
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Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the group's founding chairman, has already announced his bid for the gavel should Republicans hold the majority after the midterms.
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The previous day he made his first-ever appearance in the White House press briefing room just hours after Pelosi took the Speaker's gavel.
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As the committee's current ranking Democrat, Smith has been expected to run for and win the gavel, but Thursday's announcement makes the bid official.
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Mr. Boehner abandoned the speaker's gavel in part because he could not balance governing with a liberal Democratic president while leading a conservative caucus.
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She added she would like to hand the Speaker's gavel off to another woman, but also noted she would not hand-pick her successor.
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"For the junior member who never held a gavel, there is not a demand," said Tom Davis, a former Republican House member from Virginia.
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Mr. Gowdy, who is retiring at the end of the year, has used his gavel selectively since taking over the Oversight Committee last year.
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The auction went down at Sotheby's in London and just after the gavel went down, the painting -- "Girl With Balloon" -- began disappearing from view.
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Democrats and The Majority Ms. Pelosi, the only female speaker in history, is confident that she will have the votes to reclaim the gavel.
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"He bangs his gavel two times and he says to us, 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the top of the world,' " Dr. Melson recounted.
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The contentious contest for the Appropriations Committee gavel demonstrates how the infighting over prestigious committee posts could spill into McCarthy's bid to become speaker.
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It was a year ago that his "Girl with Balloon" self-destructed in a spectacular prank after a final gavel bid of $1.4 million.
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Their tools, not the least of which is hunting, are far better suited for sustaining wildlife populations, including grizzly bears, than the judge's gavel.
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Pelosi donated the gavel she used and pantsuit she wore when she was sworn as the first female speaker of the House in 2007.
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Even before Ryan's formal retirement announcement, Freedom Caucus members said there had been conversations with McCarthy about a future bid for the Speaker's gavel.
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"As soon as she said, 'Article 1 is adopted, she hit that gavel quick and hard,'" Patti Wood, a body language expert, tells Refinery29.
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In four years wielding the gavel, he advocated — and won — major increases in the defense budget that pushed military spending well past $700 billion.
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Other exceptions have made it possible for the real estate industry to own an entire chamber of the state legislature, lock, stock and gavel.
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Frelinghuysen has a "strong interest" in the Appropriations Committee gavel and strongly opposes Obama administration policies that hurt coal, said Steve Wilson, his spokesman.
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But Democrats still have a very steep hill to climb to convince the American people that they deserve to wield the speaker's gavel again.
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In the midterm elections, Democrats flipped the GOP-controlled House for the first time in eight years, and Pelosi soon reclaimed her Speaker's gavel.
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The White House clearly assumed that, at some point — maybe after she secured the speaker's gavel — Ms. Pelosi would bend to Mr. Trump's will.
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If this voting bloc sticks together, Pelosi would have an extremely thin margin in regaining the speaker's gavel, despite her overwhelming support in the caucus.
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What he can accomplish with a microphone or a gavel, so this hyperventilating went, was no match for what Trump could do with a tweet.
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Following the vote, Pelosi took the speaker's gavel from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, holding it up to House members and smiling before delivering remarks.
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ADRIAN BOSCOLOPerth, Australia Contrary to your article, Singapore's Administration of Justice (Protection) Act does not increase penalties for scandalising the judiciary ("Gavel-rousers", October 13th).
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Alongside her, Democratic representative Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the House Majority Leader, once again, and reclaimed her gavel as Speaker of The House.
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As she urged lawmakers to "stop playing with women's health care as if it's your own political puppet," Schwertner hammered his gavel into the table.
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Six months after Ryan took the Speaker's gavel, the barn is dirty again, and he's shown himself to be a demonstrably worse leader than Boehner.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said for weeks that if the election were held "today," Democrats would win back the Speaker's gavel.
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Rob Portman, who was presiding over the session at the time, pounded his gavel and asked the sergeant at arms to restore order three times.
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With a bang of his gavel, General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak gave official approval by acclamation to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&apos selection of Bachelet.
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I am optimistic that legislators will gavel out of this legislative session in April with a plan that puts Alaska on a sustainable path forward.
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So we continue that effort and it's certainly much easier with the gavel but it is difficult now because we have a president obstructing everything.
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Historic tenure, strong headwinds Pelosi was the first woman to hold the speaker's gavel when Democrats were last in the minority, from 2007 to 2011.
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In 2010, they attacked the budget bill written by Ryan, who was then Budget Committee chairman, only to lose 63 seats and the House gavel.
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A Republican leadership aide confirmed to The Hill that Ryan talked with GOP leaders about taking his Appropriations gavel in response to his no vote.
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A solemn responsibility reserved exclusively for the party in power, it involved wielding the gavel and governing floor proceedings, with the title Speaker Pro Tempore.
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Pelosi, the House Democratic leader who is poised to reclaim the speaker's gavel in the new Congress, said Wednesday afternoon that she supported the measure.
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Had he chosen to stay in Congress, he could have kept that gavel until 22019 under the term limits imposed by the House GOP conference.
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A failure to pass the rules package would be a significant setback for Pelosi on the same day she's expect to reclaim the Speaker's gavel.
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They have the resistance movement, they have scorched earth, they want to raise your taxes, they want to give the gavel back to Nancy Pelosi.
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Pelosi, played by Kate McKinnon, is even sporting the fabulous blue and white necklace (designed by Mariquita Masterson) she wore as she banged the gavel.
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Douglas MacArthur had been members and that William Jennings Bryan gave the club its treasured whale-tooth gavel, still in use by the president today.
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The President and Republicans know they need to stem the tide in the liberal bastion of Minnesota to avoid handing the speaker's gavel to Democrats.
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He then took over the gavel for 45 minutes so Mr. Lee — who ultimately blocked the vote, delaying it until January — could decipher the legislation.
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Come up just short in just a few too many of those races in November and Republicans will hold on to the gavel next year.
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She held the gavel from 2007 to 2011 and is considered by both Democrats and Republicans to be the most effective speaker in modern times.
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Hicok's exhortation to accept responsibility for our future falls on conveniently stoppered ears: The final line, with its rhyming monosyllables, lands like a judge's gavel.
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Then the troublemaker with a gavel will finally get her wish — to no longer hear herself introduced as the most powerful woman in American history.
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Word of the Day : a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge _________ The word gavel has appeared in 41 articles on nytimes.
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Though judges are often thought of as impassive gavel-pounders, Judge Kemp is not alone in showing compassion toward the defendant and victims before her.
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Adam Schiff's gavel was falling on an ornate wooden dais to signal the first day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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These are the majority-makers, the Democrats who flipped GOP-held districts in 22019 and made it possible for Pelosi to reclaim the Speaker's gavel.
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The referrals are the latest action Nunes has taken since losing his gavel -- and the subpoena power that comes with it -- in the new Congress.
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If Democrats win the remaining contests, Pelosi could lose 18 votes within her party and still clinch the gavel if all Republicans oppose her. Rep.
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Sergeant-at-arms: The Senate's de facto security officer helps protects the members, keeps custody of the Senate gavel, escorts officials and enforces the rules.
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Diaz-Balart's office had no comment, but one GOP source suggested the congressman didn't appear to be ruling out a bid for the Budget gavel.
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And the key Senate Democrats who will drive health care policy if Democrats retake the gavel have already said Medicare-for-all is a nonstarter.
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He is scheduled to have additional bilateral meetings on Wednesday before returning to Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the Senate will gavel into session at 1 p.m.
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Republicans have been quick to weaponize Mr. Nadler's patience against him in the past, taking advantage of his reticence to simply gavel them into silence.
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Pelosi rejected such characterizations, saying the Democrats are merely trying to field the roster best positioned to give the party the Speaker's gavel next year.
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Behind him, about 20 of his classmates looked on, absorbing the process and cheering and waving pink construction hearts when Michael helped bang the gavel.
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A Republican leadership aide confirmed to The Hill that Ryan talked with GOP leaders about taking Frelinghuysen's Appropriations gavel in response to his no vote.
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Since assuming the Speaker's gavel in October, Ryan has advocated for a "bottom-up" approach, leaving top decisions to committee chairmen whenever possible, Buck said.
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As a consolation prize, Tiberi was awarded the gavel of Ways and Means' health subcommittee, and he also is chairman of the Joint Economic Committee.
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Where: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia Monday's theme: United Together Gavel time expected at 203:00 pm Eastern Headlining speakers: first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen.
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To win back the gavel, the California representative had to put down a rebellion in her caucus — and there are still dissenters in her ranks.
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If Democrats win the remaining contests, Pelosi could lose 18 votes within her party and still clinch the gavel even if all Republicans oppose her.
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Twice, it seemed to be petering out as the auctioneer, Andrew Robinson, nearly banged his final gavel, only to be extended with one more bid.
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Even if Democrats win back the gavel, it's unlikely they will mobilize behind divisive procedural reforms when they could pass tangible policy improving people's lives.
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A preliminary vote Wednesday by House Democrats all but ensures Nancy Pelosi will soon take back the speaker's gavel, despite a years-long rebellion against her.
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Pelosi repeatedly stressed she was a "mother of five" and invited children, including some of her grandchildren, to hold the gavel when she was sworn in.
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And at first, he seemed to completely ignore the many, many delegates who clearly yelled out "nay," trying to gavel the rules through "without objection" anyway.
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Even before the election results came in showing Trump wins in unlikely areas, there were signs that Ryan could face some resistance in keeping his gavel.
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When the floof reported for duty, the Queensland Police Service Dog Squad didn't think Gavel displayed the "necessary aptitude" for the world of canine crime-fighting.
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Gavel had been living at the official residence of the Queensland governor since April 2016, and once he realized he wasn't suited for police work, Gov.
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The 52-year-old former prosecutor is one of a handful of senior Oversight members who has been calling and texting Steering members about the gavel.
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" (That said, it wasn't until Warren defended black voting rights that the gavel came down.) The Senate then voted along partisan lines to gag Warren. "Sen.
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The majority will give Pallone the committee gavel, as well as the ability to set the agenda, compel witnesses to testify and demand documents with subpoenas.
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Cohen holds the gavel of a key subcommittee on the Judiciary panel and is vowing to push for investigations into the administration — the strategy Pelosi favors.
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A GAVEL FIGHT FOR THE SILVER SCREEN: The Hill's Scott Wong does the deepest dive yet into the impending Energy and Commerce chairman fight between Rep.
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The United States currently holds the monthly rotating chair of the Security Council, and this would be Trump's first time wielding the U.N. gavel (CBS News).
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The majority will give Pallone the committee's gavel, as well as the ability to set the agenda, compel witnesses to testify and demand documents with subpoenas.
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Others noted that there is a path for Cheney to attain the Speaker's gavel, even if it's not as clear as her road to the Senate.
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Shimkus said in a Thursday phone call that he spent much of September speaking with colleagues who might have a say in who gets the gavel.
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The second is: Will Pelosi have enough support, if the House flips, to retake the Speaker's gavel she lost in the tea party wave of 2010?
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McCarthy dropped out of the Speaker's race in 2015 after he failed to win over enough conservatives, paving the way for Ryan to take the gavel.
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But Ryan has the gavel and as we have become only too painfully aware, the leader in the House has the power to control the agenda.
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Jerrold NadlerJerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerMaloney wins House Oversight gavel House Judiciary Committee approves landmark marijuana legalization bill Maloney wins vote for Oversight chairwoman MORE (D-N.
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Remember, when they went after the last victim [Hill], I kept trying to gavel, but there was no way to say, 'You can't ask that question.
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David Raposa: Lackey in a black robe and powdered wig, banging the gavel, wearing his patented "I think this oncoming fart might be a dump" face.
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Goldin Auctions put the authenticated Trump signed baseball on the block and it got 27 bids -- the final price was $2,082.50 when the metaphorical gavel sounded.
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But their victories in districts that Mr. Trump won in 2016 are the reason Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, a staunch liberal herself, holds her gavel.
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The Small Business chairman, who hopes to take the House Judiciary Committee gavel next year, was outraised in the last quarter by Democratic opponent Aftab Pureval.
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In late 2014, he leapfrogged several more senior colleagues to win the Oversight and Government Reform Committee gavel after serving just three terms in the House.
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His exit puts a key committee gavel up for grabs and will likely trigger a fierce intraparty fight back in his home state to succeed him.
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Rep.-Elect Abigail Spanberger is sticking to her vow to oppose Nancy Pelosi's speaker bid, even as the California Democrat moves closer to securing the gavel.
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There are 17,520 hours in the two years between the first gavel and sine die for any given Congress (used here as a unit of time).
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While this is the first time that Teigen will hold a judge's gavel, it's just one of many TV projects the star has coming down the pipeline.
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Current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hopes to reclaim the speaker's gavel in a January election, though opposition to her leadership has mounted within the Democratic caucus.
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Cove: A Chinese judge uses a gavel to strike the pad during a trial at the Yunyang People's Court in Yunyang county, Chongqing, China, 29 October 2015.
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Gavel now spends his time attending functions and welcoming guests to Queensland's Government House, sporting his very own official ceremonial coat bearing the state's coat of arms.
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Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsSchedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed Obama to deliver remarks at Cummings's funeral Speier to run for Oversight gavel MORE (D-Md.).
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It's a notable change from the kind of relationship Pelosi had with the insular, mercurial Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid when she last held the speaker's gavel.
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With the bang of a gavel, a pledge of allegiance, and a call to prayer, the 2016 Republican National Convention officially kicked off in Cleveland on Monday.
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For this costume, wear a black long-sleeved dress or graduation robe; a lace collar; hot glue; large glasses; studded gold earrings; and, of course, a gavel.
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At age 20063, the veteran liberal from San Francisco stands to become just the third House leader in the past century to seize the speaker's gavel twice.
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Giada De Laurentiis is the stenographer, and Emeril Lagasse is the bailiff, who can't stop himself from shouting "bam!" every time Judge Garten slams down her gavel.
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"What is the rush what are we trying to hide by not having the documents up front," Booker said as Grassley continued to slowly bang his gavel.
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Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a Marine veteran, would be a great member to hold the gavel; he supports novel approaches and supported a whole-health bill. Rep.
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Schiff, who is now empowered with the authority of a committee gavel, said the committee is going to start the probe by focusing on five key areas.
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Hensarling has led the committee since 2013 and would have been required to surrender the gavel, or the top GOP seat, under House Republican term-limit rules.
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Advocates for seniors' financial and health security will seize the gavel in key House committees, including House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor.
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A band of anti-Pelosi rebels has been plotting ways to take down Pelosi, including trying to recruit a candidate to challenge her for the Speaker's gavel.
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A Democratic member of Congress presiding over the House of Representatives became so frustrated with partisan squabbling on Tuesday he tossed the gavel and abandoned his post.
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Kay GrangerNorvell (Kay) Kay GrangerLobbying world House approves bill increasing federal worker pay House approves 3 billion spending package MORE (R-Texas) getting the Appropriations Committee gavel.
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What Fudge got instead: After meeting with Pelosi last week, Fudge said Pelosi offered to restore a defunct election subcommittee and offered Fudge the gavel. http://bit.
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A grinning Ryan announced the final 9003-203 vote himself, hammering the gavel down in the victory and then leading his rank-and-file members in applause.
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That debate took a political toll on the party, as the Democrats lost 63 House seats, and the Speaker's gavel, just months after the law was enacted.
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House Republicans' last-gasp probes Democrats may have won control of the House, but Republicans still have about six weeks before they officially turn over the gavel.
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Jerry Nadler, the New York Democrat who will take the gavel next year, said "it is long past due" that the committee address the nation's gun laws.
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"If you know how the Supreme Court works, that opinion has been written, that decision has been made before we banged the gavel on this hearing," Rep.
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But how strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the Judiciary Committee chairman and enforcement has fluctuated depending on who wields the gavel on the panel.
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The Hill: Pelosi appears to be on track to reclaim the Speaker's gavel, although she lacks the cushion needed to guarantee a return to the top job.
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"She understands the tools of the speakership," said Patrick McHenry, the eight-term Republican from North Carolina who also served during Pelosi's first time with the gavel.
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When House Speaker Paul Ryan banged his gavel down on a $1.5 trillion tax cut, the prospect of looming revenue shortfalls didn't temper his joy a bit.
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If that list is long, Pelosi may need a real wave to secure the 85033 votes she'll need to win back the gavel on the chamber floor.
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That number peaked at 20 in 21625, after an election thrashing that shifted control of the House — and the Speaker's gavel — to the Republicans, prompting then-Rep.
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The band of roughly 30 hard-liners will be a crucial voting bloc for any aspiring Speaker, who will likely need their votes to secure the gavel.
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But the moment the auctioneer's gavel fell, a hidden mechanism inside the frame shredded half the painting, which had just been sold for over a million pounds.
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I feared that I wasn't worthy of being rapped on the knuckles with the whale-tooth gavel, much less lifting it as a member of the club.
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Chapo remained silent throughout the hour-long hearing, and he was escorted out of the courtroom without incident when Cogan banged his gavel and adjourned the proceeding.
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The Texas State Senate named Chuck an honorary Texan Tuesday at their State Capitol, where senators presented the actor with a gavel along with his new title.
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His pursuit of a tax cut had dominated his career and he gaveled down the winning vote with such enthusiasm that the gavel fell to the floor.
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When Ms. Waters refused to conclude the hearing and said he could leave if he wished, Mr. Mnuchin advised her to use her gavel and dismiss him.
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With the Republicans in firm control of the chamber — and the Judiciary Committee gavel — the chance that they receive any real hearing there is next to none.
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A grinning Ryan announced the final 2900-220006 vote himself, hammering the gavel down in the victory and then leading his rank-and-file members in applause.
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Meanwhile, Pelosi has to focus on keeping her caucus unified behind her leadership, while she feels pressure from the left amid her bid for the Speaker's gavel.
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Schiff, who is now empowered with the authority of a committee gavel, said the committee is going to start the probe by focusing on five key areas.
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McCain, meanwhile, has used his two years wielding the Senate Armed Services gavel to push controversial changes to the Pentagon's bureaucracy, particularly the department's weapons acquisitions process.
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It'll be up to Chief Justice John Roberts, though, to decide how strictly that's followed and how much work his gavel will be getting during this process.
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Out of public spiritedness — and a desire to reduce tax bills — collectors from an older generation have tended to keep their masterpieces away from the auctioneer's gavel.
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Schiff continued to bang the gavel, noting that Nunes, under the rules of the inquiry, was not allowed to give his 45 minutes to any other member.
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But there are a number of landmines standing between McCarthy and the Speaker's gavel, including conservative opposition and the possibility that another candidate jumps into the race.
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If Ryan is holding the gavel when Trump or one of his surrogates disparages a religious or ethnic minority, will he turn his gaze to the horizon?
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"Beneath the Gavel" orbits around the American artist Daniel Zeigler (Cory Finzel), who travels to post-wall Berlin and paints Haddie Weisenberg (Debra Walsh), a Jewish heiress.
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It won't be clear until after the election how many votes she'd need to win back the gavel, when the size of the new caucus is settled.
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The Republican National Convention has had to fend off a wave of cyberattacks even before the opening gavel sounded, according to the official charged with securing the network.
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She and House Democrats who threatened to block her bid to reclaim the speaker's gavel in January reached an agreement to limit her speakership to four more years.
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Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri who had been presiding in the chair for much of the fight, blasted Republicans and threw his gavel down, abandoning the chair.
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Shelby is expected to easily win reelection in November but won't be allowed to keep the Banking gavel in the next Congress due to Republican term limit rules.
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Cummings has said in recent interviews that he does not plan to issue scores of subpoenas upon taking the gavel of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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All they know is that I'm the new chair and I've got the gavel and they've got to come, and so when you come, you will find out.
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"You say, 'I'm a Republican," he said, clenching his fist, as if it were a gavel, and striking the table, "'and I'd like to tell you some truth.'"
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Pelosi, who was Speaker between 2007 and 2011, said Thursday that she had tried to install committee term limits when she took the gavel a dozen years ago.
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The votes come a day before conferees are scheduled to meet at a "pass the gavel" session to officially start negotiations on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Winning over the support of the Freedom Caucus, a bloc of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, will be crucial for any Republican hoping to secure the Speaker's gavel.
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Boehner allies tried to make an example of Meadows last summer, temporarily stripping him of his Oversight subcommittee gavel after he opposed leadership on a key trade bill.
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Yet our 39-vote margin seemed strong enough to retain the gavel -- maybe not a two-fisted hold, but just enough to keep it in our calloused fingers.
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The Senate, which could gavel itself into session at any time, should make an extra effort to meet as soon as possible and quickly enact these crucial bills.
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Katko, a top Democratic target in 2018, hovered near the whip team and waited to cast his vote against the budget until moments before the gavel went down.
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John Mica (R-Fla.), who once led the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, noted that his predecessors had to wait decades to get a shot at the gavel.
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Pelosi, still fighting to regain the speaker's gavel, is loathe to accept a deal that allows any wall money given her restive caucus and a looming leadership vote.
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He told "Fox and Friends" on Wednesday he got "a little carried away" with his gavel when it fell over after he slammed it after the House vote.
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Committee Chairman Jerrold NadlerJerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerMaloney wins House Oversight gavel House Judiciary Committee approves landmark marijuana legalization bill Maloney wins vote for Oversight chairwoman MORE (D-N.
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But Scalise's office pushed back against the rumor that he is eyeing the Speaker's gavel, saying Scalise is focused on his job in Congress and keeping the majority.
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If Democrats win control of the House in November, Nadler is expected to take the gavel of the Judiciary Committee, the panel that would likely lead impeachment proceedings.
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Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is planning to use his gavel to do a deep dive on the FISA process, including the Page warrant application.
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After the 2018 elections, McCaul lost his gavel on the House Homeland Security committee, but was chosen to be the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs panel.
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"Auntie Maxine," as she is affectionately known by her supporters, has used her committee gavel to refocus the panel's agenda on protecting consumers and expanding opportunities for minorities.
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"If we do nothing, it has a tremendous impact on the 2018 elections, and whether or not Republicans still maintain control and we have the gavel," he said.
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The Senate presented Roberts with "the golden gavel," which McConnell said is typically given to senators after they've spent 100 hours in the chair, presiding over the Senate.
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She paid with her majority but won her gavel back in another midterm election triumph helped by an unpopular Republican commander in chief and, reluctantly, impeached a president.
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In front of him are a binder, loose sheets of paper and the little nub of a gavel he raps when it is time to declare a break.
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Key tips: Will the courts distribute your assets according to your will or trust, or will a judge strike the gavel and distribute assets according to state law?
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At the same time, the Freedom Caucus has alienated some rank-and-file Republican members, who could balk at the idea of rewarding rebelliousness with a committee gavel.
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While it looks like there may still be enough dissatisfaction to block Pelosi from the gavel, no one yet is willing to come forward to take her place.
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After he struck the gavel to signal agreement had been reached, ministers joined him on the stage, hugging and laughing in signs of relief after the marathon talks.
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Instead, Neal -- who waited decades for the gavel of the powerful tax-writing committee -- has continued to focus on goals he shares with the administration including priorities like infrastructure.
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What if Democrats, during a speakership election on the House floor, needed him to vote for Pelosi to stop Republicans from keeping the speaker's gavel, the TV interviewer asked?
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First elected in 21, Dingell wielded the gavel in 24 when Congress passed Medicare into law, guaranteeing health insurance as a right to every American citizen over age 20153.
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Ryan has never officially abandoned some form of vouchers as a goal, but he has not put any Medicare restructuring on his legislative agenda since taking the Speaker's gavel.
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In 2007, after Democrats took control of the House, they adopted a pay-go rule, which governed legislation moving through the lower chamber while Pelosi held the Speaker's gavel.
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Sarvana said that Grijalva is also unlikely to drag Zinke before the committee sooner because of the tweet -- a power that he will have when he wields the gavel.
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He replaces Capitol Hill and K Street veteran Dave Hoppe, who has served as Ryan's chief of staff since the Wisconsin congressman won the Speaker's gavel in October 2015.
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When Barton again sought the gavel in 2900, he was unable to get a waiver exempting him from a rule limiting lawmakers' terms at the helm of a committee.
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Pelosi's bid for the gavel may come with a set of new challenges as dozens of progressive challengers across the country have said they would not support her speakership.
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When Barton again sought the gavel in 2010, he was unable to get a waiver exempting him from a rule limiting lawmakers' terms at the helm of a committee.
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To win the gavel, Democrats would need to flip 85033 seats, and election handicappers are largely united in predicting the party's pickups will fall far short of that figure.
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But Pelosi noted last week that Democrats defied expectations when they won the House in 2006 — and she predicted the party will take the gavel back within three years.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) is poised to take over the Intelligence Committee's gavel.
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Sarvana said that Grijalva is also unlikely to drag Zinke before the committee sooner because of the tweet — a power that he will have when he wields the gavel.
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Instead it was Representative Nancy Pelosi, poised to reclaim the speaker's gavel, dancing and clapping in the box traditionally occupied by the honorees, the president and the first lady.
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I always have my first line of the evening solidified so that the minute I rap down my gavel I know how I am going to engage the audience.
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With Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, progressives see a dystopian future: a judicial gavel pounding down for decades on voting rights, workers' rights, women's rights and more.
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" The presiding officer, Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado, repeatedly banged his gavel and said the Democrats were out of order because "debate is not allowed during a vote.
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Heading into the 2012 elections, the party roles were reversed: Democrats had the White House, but Republicans held the Speaker's gavel, and all signs pointed to them keeping it.
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But another turn with the gavel is no sure thing, as a few Democrats running for the House have promised that they will not vote for her as Speaker.
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Mr. Cummings, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, is pictured standing in the room where the committee meets, in a navy suit, holding a gavel.
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EPIC BATTLE FOR THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE GAVEL: Ask outgoing House GOP campaign chief Greg Walden about his next move, and he'll insist he's not looking past the November elections.
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McCain's statements contradict ones he made to reporters earlier this month when he said Graham would give up his gavel on the Personnel Subcommittee to helm the new subpanel.
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In the two hearings the Judiciary Committee has held in the past week, there has been gavel-banging and shouting across the wide rows where the 41 members sit.
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Republicans are making a much more aggressive play for the Appropriations Committee gavel, which carries enormous influence over how hundreds of billions of federal dollars are spent each year.
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If Womack wins the Budget gavel, then steps aside to become an Appropriations cardinal, "that would be the fourth Budget chairman in two years," the senior GOP aide said.
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When Medicare finally came up for a vote in 1965, Mr. Dingell was given the gavel and the honor, in memory of his father, of presiding over the House.
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At the Capitol, House Democrats were relieved, rejuvenated and even overjoyed that for the first time since Pelosi took the gavel in January, the caucus was unified on Trump.
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In 2010, the tables were turned: Democratic turnout fell sharply by 26 million people, Republican turnout dipped by just 7 million, and Ms. Pelosi had to surrender the gavel.
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C.) and Lacy ClayWilliam (Lacy) Lacy ClayGOP senator blasts Dem bills on 'opportunity zones' 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Speier to run for Oversight gavel MORE (D-Mo.), rolled out legislation on Wednesday that would prevent investment in "sin list" businesses, such as casinos, from being eligible for the incentive, terminate opportunity zones that are not low-income and tighten rules to ensure that the tax breaks go to new investments.
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Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who today goes from majority leader to minority leader, will say in remarks during today's gavel-handover session: Go deeper: Republicans secretly study their coming hell
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To stand a chance of realizing those ambitions though, Ryan has to first score some legacy-worthy accomplishments that allow him to relinquish the speaker's gavel on his own terms.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court will gavel in a new term on Tuesday with a thin docket of cases overshadowed by looming questions concerning the future tilt of the court.
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In a dramatic session last night that involved gavel-throwing by a frustrated Democratic representative and harsh words from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House voted to officially condemn Trump's language.
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Last June, author Bonnie Greer used her shoe as a gavel at a meeting and then resigned to protest the ways in which the society's trustees were running the organization.
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While Gavel may not be tracking criminals as the police department once hoped, he has been hard at work welcoming guests and playing with tour groups at the governor's house.
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As the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chairman, Walden has campaigned and raised cash for many of the lawmakers who will ultimately decide Thursday who gets the prized Energy gavel.
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Pelosi gained the Speaker's gavel in 2006 after Democrats beat down President George W. Bush's plan in 2005 to privatize Social Security, something the Democratic leader is reminding her caucus.
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Nehlen, who badly lost a primary challenge to Ryan over the summer, on Tuesday said he will mount a campaign to challenge Ryan for the Speaker's gavel, according to CNN.
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In the 30-second spot, Shuster aligns himself with the positions of Trump, Cruz, Sarah Palin and Ben Carson, never mentioning that he holds the powerful Transportation and Infrastructure gavel.
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Despite being regarded as one of the biggest budget hawks of the Republican Conference prior to taking the gavel, Ryan completely failed to rein in the federal budget as speaker.
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A Democrat will once again raise the speaker's gavel, and he or she will face the monumental challenge of holding together a new, ideologically diverse majority while negotiating with Republicans.
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But there is no recent precedent for a former chairman to win back the gavel after a prolonged absence, and there's a strong desire from some colleagues for new blood.
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Some argue that term limits create a brain drain in Congress, with the most experienced committee leaders more inclined to head for the exits once they're done holding a gavel.
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Ryan and his supporters aren't quite predicting victory, but they sense a groundswell of discontent after four straight election cycles have left the Speaker's gavel in the hands of Republicans.
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Clyburn has made clear he also intends to stick around in the leadership ranks, but said he would only run for the Speaker's gavel if Pelosi can't secure the votes.
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Looking ahead to 2020, progressives may yet have reason to be skeptical about Pelosi's continued hold on the gavel—especially if Democrats win back both the presidency and the Senate.
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Another way to clinch the gavel is to convince critics to vote present or to not show up at all, which would lower the overall threshold needed to become Speaker.
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Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) have expressed reluctance to give up their powerful positions as Appropriations subcommittee chairs for a shot at the budget gavel.
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The vice president can also preside over the Senate on ceremonial occasions, as Pence did to gavel in the vote after Republicans passed their final tax reform bill in December.
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But even if Mr. Ryan retains his gavel, a collapse by Mr. Trump could nonetheless have implications for the Republican caucus and for the legislative prospects of a President Clinton.
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When Pelosi held the Speaker's gavel in 2010, she deflected requests from Judiciary Committee Democrats to hold hearings on expanded background checks citing a lack of support in the Senate.
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Both Democrats and Republicans are already spending tens of millions of dollars in those areas, which are likely to determine who holds the Speaker's gavel for the next two years.
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Either way, it's obviously absurd—yet another example of the NFL pounding its gavel and screaming "I will have order!" because someone is whispering in the back of the courtroom.
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Pebble Limited Partnership also has Akin Gump, Van Ness Feldman and Gavel Resources working on its behalf and spent $85033,000 on lobbying in the last three months of 2017 alone.
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She warned that Trump's controversies would "hand the gavel" of the House majority over to Democrats during a private meeting in June, according to a recording obtained by Tucson Weekly.
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Mr. Toscano called the selection of the next House speaker "the question of the night" but added that who holds the gavel is less important than deciding which legislation advances.
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Listen, for two years, in my mind I had just been waiting for the moment where Nancy Pelosi takes the gavel from Paul Ryan's fucking hands and today, it happened.
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If Nancy Pelosi never gets her hands on the speaker's gavel again, she'll always have the fact that the 111th Congress was one of the most productive of all time.
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Then the new speaker will grasp the gavel and swear in the representatives-elect — their right hands raised, some of them clutching Bibles or Torahs or Qurans in their left.
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Moments after the gavel hit the auctioneer's podium, the work slid through the frame, into a shredder hidden inside, triggered by an associate of the artist using a remote control.
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In the pingshu tradition, the performer wears a traditional gown and sits behind a desk equipped with a folding fan and a wooden block, which is used like a gavel.
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That's twice the number of departing House Democrats — presenting a major opportunity for a minority party that needs 24 more seats to snatch back the speaker's gavel for Nancy Pelosi.
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"Nunes may have wielded the committee gavel here, but the ultimate responsibility lies with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who lacked the courage to stop him," Schiff says.
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Jordan confirmed that he is interested in the idea and that conservative lawmakers are pushing him to run, though he emphasized that Ryan is still currently holding the Speaker's gavel.
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Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) will seek the House Financial Services subcommittee gavel overseeing capital markets, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO that's heading to fellow members this afternoon.
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Because of the lack of case precedents, the opinion of the public and the advisory jury may have moved the gavel in the trial court and in the appeal decision.
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By midday Tuesday, as the vote in the Senate deadlocked at 50 to 50, Mr. Pence, a former member of the House, took the gavel and at 12:29 p.m.
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But Pelosi, who's fighting to protect the moderates who helped her secure the Speaker's gavel, is publicly treading far more cautiously than Nadler, one of the more aggressive impeachment proponents.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) gavel from her time as the first female Speaker is donated along with other artifacts to the Smithsonian American History Museum on Wednesday.
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You can bet a House with Speaker Jordan at the gavel will not be rushing $6900 trillion spending bills through Congress without giving lawmakers a chance to read the legislation.
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In 21965, Blanche K. Bruce—a former slave, a delegate from Mississippi, and a U.S. senator—served as an honorary vice-president of the Republican Convention, and wielded the gavel.
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"Even if I no longer have the gavel, I look forward to continuing the fight along with you," Price said, noting the party's continuing mission: "to win in November." pic.twitter.
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Ms. Pelosi ascended to the marble dais in the center of the House chamber with Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the incoming Republican leader, who handed her the wooden gavel.
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With the House of Representatives now under Democratic control and the gavel in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hands, some of President Trump's critics are eagerly anticipating a surge of congressional investigations.
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LONG before before he was handed the gavel to shepherd America's Supreme Court, John Roberts pooh-poohed a proposal by Chief Justice Warren Burger to establish a new federal appellate court.
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MIAMI - FEBRUARY 02: A judges gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom of the newly opened Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum February 3, 2009 in Miami, Florida.
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Of course, each Judge Barbie comes with a gavel and round block "that kids can use to help her call the room to order and make important decisions," the company said.
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Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel NBA's Enes Kanter calls out Ilhan Omar over Turkey sanctions vote MORE (D-Minn.).
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Some Democrats have been hoping to avoid a heated, contested race for the Oversight gavel, warning that it would be a distraction during a crucial stretch of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Tlaib tells Walker to 'shush' over swipe at Sanders event MORE (D-Mich.).
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So in response, Bee turned the councilwomen into a badass new sports team — complete with nicknames like Lorena "The Gavel" González and slickly produced player profiles that highlight their political achievements.
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Seniority is considered by the Steering panel, but isn't the deciding factor: Chaffetz, backed by GOP leaders, beat several more senior colleagues to win the Oversight gavel in late 2014; Rep.
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Congressional aides said Schiff, 58, would work with Republicans if he gets the gavel at the Intelligence Committee, a panel with a bipartisan tradition, but one that predates the Russia probe.
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The band of Democrats have been threatening to withhold their votes unless Pelosi agrees to overhaul House rules according to their proposals, throwing a wrench into Pelosi's bid for the gavel.
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In the 85033th Congress, when Pelosi held the Speaker's gavel, several Democrats on the Judiciary Committee pushed leadership to hold hearings on background checks and firearm loopholes — entreaties that went ignored.
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But how strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the Judiciary Committee chairman — in this case Grassley — and enforcement has fluctuated depending on who wields the gavel on the panel.
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Jim Jordan has expressed interest in pursuing the speaker's gavel, a move that could be enough on its own to keep McCarthy from the number he'd need to win the speakership.
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Kind did not endorse a letter, organized by a small but determined group of insurgents, seeking to block Pelosi's bid for the Speaker's gavel, which she held between 2007 and 2011.
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Grassley, who wielded the Finance Committee gavel from 2003 to 2007, has taken a much more antagonistic approach to drug companies and is well known in Washington as a dogged investigator.
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Pelosi is fiercely working to line up as many votes as possible as she seeks to reclaim the Speaker's gavel, with a vocal group of insurgents plotting to take her down.
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But at a jam-packed press conference at the Capitol on Thursday, Pelosi said she has the votes, right now, to win the gavel on the floor with only Democratic support.
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Smith, who has long lambasted the price tag for nuclear modernization, pledged to make the issue a priority when he took control of the gavel after Democrats won back the House.
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Ms. Wasserman Schultz had been expected to pound the gavel to open Monday's convention, then possibly hand the duties over to Donna Brazile, the longtime Democratic political adviser and TV pundit.
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Nixon took the rostrum (which had been created by the set designer for the television show "The Dating Game") and charmingly used her slender arms to swing an enormous wooden gavel.
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"She strides to the podium, steps up on the stage, slams a gavel, calls the thing to order, and in machine-gun Russian, staccato Russian, starts this thing off," Erickson said.
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The flip side of that, however, is that chairmen who lose their gavel may want to leave Congress altogether, depriving the institution of experienced legislators with an openness to bipartisan compromise.
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Clyburn, for one, has already asserted that a failure to win back the gavel after eight years in the minority wilderness would mean he, Pelosi and Hoyer should all step aside.
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A few hours later, she told her hometown newspaper, The Sun-Sentinel, that she would no longer even gavel the convention to order in the interest of avoiding an ugly scene.
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Notably, at the United Nations this morning, 31 countries "deposited instruments" acceding to the agreement, bringing the total to 60 since its approval with a gavel stroke in Paris in December.
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Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Cummings has argued he plans to be in search of answers, not headlines -- although with his gavel, it's unlikely he will be able to avoid them.
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Pat Roberts of Kansas arrived to gavel in the chamber for a pro-forma session that only exemplified the lack of action between the White House and Democrats towards a resolution.
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The speaker's decision spun the Republican conference into a frenzy Wednesday as lawmakers placed their own bets and weighed in on the palace intrigue of who would hold the gavel next.
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Though Boehner has surrendered the speaker's gavel, his departure does not resolve the tensions roiling a congressional party that often finds itself caught between its ideological commitments and its electoral fortunes.
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He could have kept the Oversight gavel through 2020 under the House GOP's rules limiting chairmen to three consecutive terms, but instead has chosen to return to the private sector. Rep.
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"We are proud of the enthusiastic response we have seen from collectors internationally, as the watch toured across the globe and then as it went under the gavel," Mr. Boutros said.
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The British street artist Banksy put up a work at Sotheby's auction house that half-destructed as the gavel came down, thanks to a remote-control shredder built into its frame.
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It will also be the first leadership test for Ms. Pelosi, who anticipated a string of celebrations as she reclaims the gavel as the nation's first female speaker of the House.
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You guys at the country club make me sick, and it's why I ceased being a Republican — after 40 years — when the gavel came down on the confirmation vote for Kavanaugh.
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Meanwhile, Democrats are already nervously eyeing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who has wielded his gavel to squeeze the intelligence community over its handling of the Russia probe as well.
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If Democrats retake the House in November, Pelosi is certain to use that appeal to try to convince even her skeptics to give her another opportunity to take the speaker's gavel.
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Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House Judiciary Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee, told Homan his time had expired and banged her gavel to silence him, the former ICE director lost it.
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After all, no one is certain who will hold the Speaker's gavel in January; but either way, both parties need a functioning and efficient budget process to do the people's business.
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Ahead of the first official meeting — dubbed the "pass the gavel" meeting — the leaders of the Armed Services committees would not indicate where they will land on those and other issues.
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John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who will assume the environment panel gavel in the new Congress, said committee policy allows senators to question nominees through the chairman rather than on their own.
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Y.), Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel NBA's Enes Kanter calls out Ilhan Omar over Turkey sanctions vote MORE (D-Minn.) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Tlaib tells Walker to 'shush' over swipe at Sanders event MORE (D-Mich.) in recent weeks and has battled Warren for second place in the Democratic primary field.
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When Boehner announced his retirement in the fall of 2015, Ryan told colleagues he had no interest in the job, leaving the speaker's gavel largely open for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
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Fifteen hundred rare works of art go under the gavel this week at the big New York auction houses, including rare masterpieces by some of the defining artists of the 20th century.
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No other House Republican has said they will challenge Ryan for the gavel, but the landscape could change dramatically if his majority shrinks, and conservatives on the right have even more power.
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Sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's chair as part of a routine rotation of House members, Ocasio-Cortez took her turn with the gavel and ran the chamber for about an hour.
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Frank Pallone (D-NJ) is taking over the gavel at Energy and Commerce, a committee with some of the broadest jurisdiction in Congress — and his planned oversight agenda for 2019 reflects it.
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McCarthy, whom Ryan has endorsed to succeed him as Speaker, has pushed back on reports that he is seeking to take the gavel before the Wisconsin Republican retires after the November midterms.
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Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) is expected to wield the Speaker's gavel.
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But now that the Tennessee Republican holds the gavel of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, her focus will be trying to bring high-speed internet access to rural communities.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is in line to wield the Judiciary gavel if the current chairman, Iowa's Chuck Grassley, decides to lead the Senate Finance Committee instead, CNN's Manu Raju reports.
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Schiff, a former prosecutor, has earned a reputation as both a more effective questioner than Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who held the gavel during Lewandowski's appearance, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel.
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Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) will relinquish the gavel of the House Appropriations Committee in January, after having led the powerful panel for six years, which is the maximum allowed under GOP rules.
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Slaughter, an institution in New York politics who in 2007 became the first woman to take the gavel of the powerful House Rules Committee, died Friday morning at the age of 88.
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"Nancy Pelosi continues to be a polarizing figure in politics, but Democrats still have confidence in her taking the gavel as House speaker in January," said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult's vice president.
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The Republicans currently hold 22019 seats in the lower chamber — their largest majority since the Great Depression — and the Democrats would have to flip 30 of those to reclaim the Speaker's gavel.
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From the moment the gavel fell to open the convention at the Wells Fargo Center on Monday afternoon, Mr. Sanders's supporters let out boos and jeers at almost any mention of Mrs.
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Winning the gavel will require the support of the Freedom Caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners who have the power to influence the outcome of the race for Speaker.
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Some lawmakers are still receiving phone calls from constituents angry that they helped give Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012, enough votes to win the Speaker's gavel last October, aides said.
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Torres served under then-Speaker Bass in Sacramento and has been urging her House colleague to run for leadership in Washington after she relinquishes her CBC gavel at the end of 2020.
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If the bloc of roughly 220006 conservatives band together, they can prevent McCarthy, Scalise or anyone else from securing the required 2202 votes needed to win the gavel on the House floor.
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Complicating the equation for Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican had accepted the Speaker's gavel last year with vows to adopt a bottom-up approach that would empower the committees and lower-ranking members.
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And because he intends to remain in his post through the end of the year, would-be successors Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise won't have the marquee value the speaker's gavel provides.
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But Jordan himself acknowledged that his past tenure leading the Freedom Caucus made it unlikely that he'd secure enough support on the GOP leadership-controlled Steering Committee to win the Oversight gavel.
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ET, to see Roberts take the gavel as senators met to decide whether Trump should be the first President in US history convicted on articles of impeachment to be removed from office.
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As vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Blackburn is well-positioned to succeed Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who must relinquish the gavel later this year due to term limits.
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House Democrats' leadership fight If Democrats do take back the House, Nancy Pelosi wants to be the first speaker in more than 60 years to wield the gavel in two separate stints.
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But Trump has been fixated on the Supreme Court confirmation battle as he shuttles between meetings with world leaders and wields the gavel at Wednesday's meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
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However, sources raised questions about whether Womack a year from now would want to trade up his Budget gavel for another Appropriations subcommittee chairmanship, which controls billions of dollars in spending. Rep.
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Graham, a top ally of Trump's, has vowed he will use his gavel to look into the origins of the Russia investigation and the decision to surveil Page, a former campaign aide.
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But back-bench lawmakers face daunting prospects in the House, where securing a coveted gavel can take a decade, and only then if they have the right relationships and raise staggering sums.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the embattled soon to be former chair of the Democratic National Committee, will no longer gavel open the Democratic National Convention when it kicks off in Philadelphia this afternoon.
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"I wanted to take part in an interesting discussion, not put the gavel down on it," said Alex, who asked his last name be kept out of this story to protect his identity.
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Pelosi, who has served as the top Democrat in the House since 2003 and became the first female Speaker ever in 2007, easily cleared the majority threshold she needed to retake the gavel.
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Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Tlaib tells Walker to 'shush' over swipe at Sanders event MORE (D) officially endorsed Sen.
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At the strike of the gavel, Chief Justice John Roberts opened the proceedings, wished the junior justice a "long and happy career in our common calling" and the nine settled down to business.
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When the dust cleared and the gavel dropped, the United States' place at the 2018 global climate negotiations — a two-week long affair in Poland attended by nearly 200 nations — had been sealed.
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Y.) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibPhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner endorses Warren 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel Tlaib tells Walker to 'shush' over swipe at Sanders event MORE (D-Mich.).
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Their suspicions of Democratic Party favoritism confirmed by stolen emails published by WikiLeaks, they booed chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at her own state's delegation meeting and forced her to surrender the convention gavel.
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The procedural vote was 51-49 as the gavel came down Friday, assuring Kavanaugh a final vote, perhaps as early as Saturday, on his lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.
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During a hearing on three anti-abortion bills in Texas on Wednesday, a Republican senator broke a glass tabletop while banging a gavel to stop a woman from continuing her pro-choice testimony.
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Though GOP leaders said they would not put the measure on the floor if they weren't sure they had the votes, there's no cast iron guarantee it passes until the gavel slams down.
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Thune, who risks losing his gavel in January if Democrats capture the Senate, said he hoped that the sheer amount of lawsuits over the FCC's powers would bring interested parties to the table.
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The growing list of groups underscore how McCarthy, or any viable candidate for Speaker, is going to have to meet certain demands to secure the gavel if Republicans keep the House in November.
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Rogers, who held the gavel on the House Intelligence Committee and is a former agent at the bureau, reportedly has a solid reputation inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building as a straight shooter.
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If McCarthy is able to secure the 218 votes he would need to win the gavel in a floor vote, some political observers speculate that Ryan could step down early, potentially this summer.
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This will be the first major test for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in her bid to reclaim the gavel when Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in the new year.
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Ryan, who has been sporting a beard since around Thanksgiving break, just weeks after assuming the Speaker's gavel, took to social media on Tuesday to show off his freshly shaved face: Fresh year.
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For junior lawmakers and those in the minority, earmarks can give them accomplishments to take back home, which is in the interest of leadership for both parties, regardless of who holds the gavel.
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Almost immediately after taking the gavel, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced he will make tax reform—often considered a noble cause but a futile exercise —a priority in the upcoming year.
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At this moment, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is working like a dog to avoid a repeat of 44 when he, heir to the gavel, failed in his bid to succeed John Boehner .
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While a number of Democratic candidates have said they would not support Pelosi for speaker, she is the heavy favorite to reclaim the gavel in part because there's no serious opposition to her.
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Trump and the GOP leadership race House Speaker Paul Ryan says he'll hang up his gavel at the end of the year, and wants his deputy, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to succeed him.
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The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, will gavel the quadrennial meeting, which opens on Monday in Cleveland, into session as an exemplar of the party's familiar profile: free markets, small government, strong defense.
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Standing amid unpacked boxes in her new chambers in Bronx Family Court, just east of Yankee Stadium, she pointed out a new gavel on her desk that was a gift from her mother.
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Christie's is hoping for a more explosive reaction on Thursday, when the gavel comes down on "Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy," formally testing the art market's interest in AI art.
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Guns When the House and Senate gavel in next week, it will be the first time Congress is in legislative session since a pair of mass shootings in Texas and one in Ohio.
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"I have decided that, in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note, that I am not going to gavel in the convention," she said.
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It's unclear if Wilson could have successfully challenged Foxx for the gavel, but he insisted he hadn't been discouraged by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or other leaders to run for the post.
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But she will use the power of the gavel to continue other investigations begun by Mr. Cummings, including one into the administration's failed bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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He also would have had to return to the House as a rank-and-file member and relinquish his Foreign Affairs gavel due to the GOP's rules limiting chairmen to three consecutive terms.
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Finance industry watchdogs are hoping that Waters will use her gavel to advance new consumer protections and shine a light on how the Trump administration's and Wall Street's wrongdoing may be hurting Americans.
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Pelosi has made sure all year to never get too far ahead of the Democrats in swing districts who made it possible for her to reclaim the Speaker's gavel in the first place.
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Pombo's firm, Gavel Resources, took Collier, the CEO of the partnership, around the Interior Department earlier this month, meeting with Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist Pombo has known for years.
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No indication: Ahead of the first official meeting -- dubbed the "pass the gavel" meeting -- the leaders of the Armed Services committees would not indicate where they will land on those and other issues.
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Pelosi's supporters, meanwhile, have launched a furious lobbying campaign designed to snuff out the insurgency and return her the gavel, which she held between 2007 and 2011 as the nation's first female Speaker.
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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) decided to endorse a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump, she put the gavel in the hands of one of her most trusted committee chairmen: Rep.
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WASHINGTON — When it became clear that Representative Nita M. Lowey, Democrat of New York, would lead the House Appropriations Committee, she received a cherrywood gavel, her name and new title engraved in silver.
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If Grassley decides to remain chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho would be next in line to head Senate Finance, trading in the gavel of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Gerry ConnollyGerald (Gerry) Edward ConnollySpeier to run for Oversight gavel Overnight Energy: Watchdog warns of threats to federal workers on public lands | Perry to step down on December 1 | Trump declines to appear in Weather Channel climate special Perry won't comply with subpoena in impeachment inquiry MORE (D-Va.) and Lacy ClayWilliam (Lacy) Lacy ClaySpeier to run for Oversight gavel Maloney to serve as acting Oversight chairwoman after Cummings's death The Hill's Morning Report - Trump grapples with Turkey controversy MORE (D-Mo.).
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffNunes's facial expression right before lawmakers took break from Sondland testimony goes viral Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep Maloney wins House Oversight gavel MORE (D-Calif.) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelMaloney wins House Oversight gavel Maloney wins vote for Oversight chairwoman Overnight Defense: Protests at Trump's NYC Veterans Day speech | House Dems release Pentagon official's deposition transcript | Lawmakers ask Trump to rescind Erdogan invite MORE (D-N.
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If Democrats get the gavel, all McCarthy has to do for minority leader is win more than half the conference in a secret ballot that doesn't need to be ratified on the House floor.
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Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenDemocrats raise stakes with impeachment vote 'Squad' members recruit Raskin to run for Oversight gavel House to vote for first time on impeachment procedures MORE (D-Texas), a CBC member.
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ORDINARILY, at the end of a Supreme Court oral argument, the chief justice announces that "the case is submitted", the gavel bangs, and nothing more is heard until the ruling is released weeks later.
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"They can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day, I hold the gavel, they're in the minority and we're going to do what we want to do," he told CNN.
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With the gavel she regained at the beginning of this year Speaker Nancy Pelosi can force floor votes on gun restrictions that Republican predecessors blocked, from strengthened background checks to an assault weapons ban.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - After a long pause, the auctioneer commissioned to sell a northern Sydney beach-side apartment for in excess of A$21.3,22015 ($214,391) puts his gavel away, unable to entice a single bid.
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Pelosi secured the votes to take the Speaker's gavel in January by promising to step down after 85033, but she could risk support from the left by agreeing to money for the border wall.
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Former President Obama is praising House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as she seeks to regain the gavel as the next Speaker of the House despite opposition from a group of Democratic insurgents.
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On Thursday, twelve years later, she's poised to take the gavel once more, following a midterm wave that will give Democrats control of the lower chamber for the first time in nearly a decade.
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If Democrats win on Election Day next week, Pelosi will have the power to convene kangaroo courts at any time she wants and for any reason she sees fit once she holds the gavel.
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But she didn't mention him directly or by name in her speech when she became speaker of the House, even though she got the gavel in large part thanks to backlash against the President.
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Nunes and the GOP counsel were given 45 minutes to question Yovanovitch as the hearing resumed, but when Nunes yielded time to Stefanik to ask questions, Schiff used the gavel to block her questions.
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It's possible that the party's base feels more content now that Nancy Pelosi has regained the gavel and that House Democrats have subpoena power again—even if they've not done that much with it.
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Instead, she let Bush's own unpopular proposal twist in the wind and get widely condemned, a choice that no doubt helped Democrats take control of the House in 2006, giving her the Speaker's gavel.
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Eventually, he found himself with a gavel in hand, serving as a state court judge in New Jersey for 17 years before being appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of moderates in the U.S. House of Representatives struck a deal on Wednesday to change procedural rules, boosting Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's chances of regaining the speaker's gavel in January.
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The Democrats need 220006 seats to seize the Speaker's gavel, and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have told me the odds of their succeeding hover at just over 2202 percent.
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Next year, however, at least two of those Texas GOP chairmen are retiring; a third is term-limited; and a fourth, Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, may also lose his gavel with Ryan's departure.
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The person told CNN on Tuesday that while his focus remains on ensuring Republicans hold the majority, Jordan is still prepared to mount a bit for minority leader if Democrats win the speaker's gavel.
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Washington (CNN)A short-handed Supreme Court will take the bench again on Monday to gavel in a term that has been totally eclipsed by the raging battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.
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One factor that has him on House retirement watch lists: At 64 and in office since 1987, Upton hit the House's term limits and had to give up the Energy and Commerce Committee gavel.
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The gavel used at the 1880 Republican Convention had a handle made of cane grown at Mount Vernon and a head made of wood taken from the doorway of Abraham Lincoln's house in Springfield.
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Congress can prevent presidents from making appointments during its breaks by holding so-called pro forma sessions, in which a senator comes into the otherwise-empty chamber every few days and bangs the gavel.
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Elizabeth Warren, DREAMer Astrid Silva Tuesday's theme: "A Lifetime of Fighting for Children and Families" Gavel time expected at 4:00 pm Eastern The roll call vote to officially nominate Hillary Clinton begins Tuesday.
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The economy is strong, we've given Americans greater confidence in their lives, and I have every confidence that I'll be handing this gavel on to the next Republican speaker of the House next year.
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In the case of House Democrats, the thing that gives members the willies isn't the idea of Pelosi holding a gavel or having a nice office or getting to use the speaker's special letterhead.
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Nadler said that if acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is still in office when he takes the gavel, his first order of business will be to invite or subpoena him to appear before the committee.
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As she will likely hold the House speaker's gavel next month after her party gained 40 seats in last month's midterms, Pelosi appears emboldened ahead of what could become the third shutdown of the year.
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Like the quiet planning by presidential candidates for their hoped-for transition to office, House Democrats are already choreographing their opening moves if — as looks likely — they get the gavel back in the midterm elections.
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HR 1 is the first bill House Democrats will tackle once they retake the gavel next year; it's aimed at stamping out the influence of money in politics, curtailing Washington lobbying, and expanding voting rights.
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The House Financial Services panel – once considered a "juice committee" for its ability to deliver big donations to members – has the first African-American, and the first woman, to wield the gavel of the chair.
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The Democratic National Convention will gavel in on Monday afternoon, where Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine will likely be nominated at the Democratic party's nominees for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.
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"If you're running for office, the presumption is that you shouldn't be holding a gavel, because you simply can't do your job for our conference and run for another well," Cole said back in 2014.
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Brady, a Texas Republican who took over the committee's gavel in November, said he favors a U.S. corporate tax rate of less than 20 percent, substantially lower than the current top rate of 35 percent.
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While they gained six seats in the 2900 election, Republicans maintain a comfortable majority in the 220006th Congress, leaving Democrats with the tall task of picking up 2202 additional seats to win back the gavel.
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But a growing number of Democrats are clamoring for new faces at the top, and it remains unclear whether Pelosi will have the support to take the Speaker's gavel in the face of those divisions.
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While Pelosi has not yet locked down all the votes she needs to clinch the Speaker's gavel on the floor, her latest power moves delivered a major blow to the insurgency ahead of the Nov.
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The proposal in question would have required any Democrat seeking the Speaker's gavel to secure 218 votes during the closed-door caucus vote that occurs prior to a public floor vote with the entire House.
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Despite that opposition, Pelosi has remained the top Democrat in the House for Democrats during the intervening eight years, and now that they have regained the majority, she is primed to retake the speaker's gavel.
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Now that the Democrats have the gavel, the American people are once again benefitting from the wisdom of our founding fathers, who knew that a president without oversight would be a danger to us all.
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The insurgents saw the vote in a different light, as their goal was merely to demonstrate that Pelosi lacks the support of 218 Democrats — the number she'll need to win the gavel on the floor.
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Earlier in the day, newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized the President's wall as "a waste of money" and "an immorality" during a news conference hours after reclaiming the gavel in the new Congress.
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NASA and SpaceX choose both Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown Trump border fight throws curveball into shutdown prospects MORE (R-Ala.), who's expected to take the Appropriations Committee gavel from the retiring Sen.
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Even though Democrats largely wanted to defer to seniority in the race for the Oversight gavel this time around, it took two rounds of voting for the Steering Committee to make a recommendation on Tuesday.
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Even before taking the gavel in January, Cummings told CNN that Ross would be a key witness for his committee and, after weeks of negotiations, Ross agreed to testify before the panel on March 14.
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But Democrats — who have made drug costs a featured piece of their midterm campaign message — want to lay the groundwork for passing a Medicare negotiation bill next year if they win back the Speaker's gavel.
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The House Financial Services panel — once considered a "juice committee" for its ability to deliver big donations to members — has the first African-American, and the first woman, to wield the gavel of the chair.
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To say to the public, from this point forward, if you give the gavel to lawmakers who are interested in being accountable to you, this is the kind of change you can expect to see.
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Washington (CNN)A Nevada Republican shared on Monday what he conceded is a rumor: That House Speaker Paul Ryan would resign in the near future and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise would claim the gavel.
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But despite her support for McCarthy, several GOP lawmakers said a "knife fight" between top members over the Speaker's gavel or minority leader position down the line is not out of the realm of possibility.
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Before his late-night intervention, the chief justice came across as a ceremonial presence rather than a judge running a trial -- dispensing vote counts and banging his gavel on the instructions of a Senate clerk.
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Mr. Graham had indicated in the fall that he would use the power of his Judiciary Committee gavel to investigate the Bidens' work in Ukraine, requesting documents from the State Department and the Secret Service.
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House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy, who is also a top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has yet to issue a subpoena as chairman since he took the oversight gavel last June.
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Pelosi needs to get 218 votes to grab back the gavel, meaning she can only afford to lose 17 Democrats and needs to peel off at least a handful of her detractors along the way.
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"You will not shout out — not shout out in the middle of testimony," a frustrated Mr. Nadler exclaimed at one point, bringing the gavel down in a fruitless effort to shut down Republican parliamentary objections.
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But while many in the House GOP conference view the No. 2 Republican as the heir apparent, they also warn that there are a number of potential landmines standing between McCarthy and the Speaker's gavel.
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"Congressman Rogers has been publicly outspoken in support of our industry and against the president," said Bill Bissett, head of the Kentucky Coal Association, adding "there is a concern there" about Rogers losing the gavel.
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Still, the session was tense at times, as Republicans — who have for weeks accused Mr. Schiff of running roughshod over them — made parliamentary points that the chairman, banging his gavel, repeatedly ruled out of order.
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The layout: Democrats know Republicans are going to continue pressuring House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff to allow them to ask more questions, but he will continue to gavel down any distracting narratives from the right.
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