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unusual facts about Presiding Officer



General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

The presiding officer of the House of Bishops is the Presiding Bishop.

Glasgow Cathcart by-election, 2005

George Reid, the Parliament's Presiding Officer set the date citing that it was in the best interests of the public to have it on this date, the date already set for the Livingston by-election caused by the death of Robin Cook as having alternative dates would have led to months of electioneering, which he felt was against the public interest.

Jeffrey Groharing

Colonel Peter Brownback, the Presiding Officer of Omar Khadr's military commission, was expected to make a ruling as to whether Khadr was an "illegal enemy combatant".

Military Commissions Act of 2009

On December 3, 2009, Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, reported on a hearing before Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Paul, the Presiding Officer of the Military Commission for US v. Al Qosi. She wrote that Paul was the first Presiding Officer to address the implications of the new act.


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2nd Oklahoma Legislature

Lieutenant Governor George W. Bellamy continued to serve as the first President of the Senate, which gave him a tie-breaking vote and allowed him to serve as a presiding officer.

3rd Oklahoma Legislature

Lieutenant Governor J. J. McAlester served as the President of the Senate, which gave him a tie-breaking vote and allowed him to serve as a presiding officer.

Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids

He was the only Conservative member of the Welsh National Assembly Advisory Group, and his work in relation to Welsh devolution was described by Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Welsh Assembly Presiding Officer) as "the most significant contribution of any Welsh Conservative politician to the cause of devolution; If Ron Davies was the architect of devolution, Colwyn was his enthusiastic draughtsman. His encouragement was unstinting".

Domingo Báñez

But the presiding officer of the Inquisition desired these eight books to be reduced to one, and Báñez, together with Pedro Herrera and Didacus Alvarez was instructed to do the work.

Harry Begian

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) read the tribute on the Senate floor immediately prior to the presiding officer of the Senate reading a Presidential report on the "emergency" of fissable nuclear material proliferation in the Russian Federation.

James L. Pohl

On 6 January 2009 Pohl was appointed to replace Ralph Kohlmann as the Chief Presiding Officer for the Military Commissions.

Judith Zaffirini

Despite her Democratic heritage, Zaffirini is known for her ability to work across party lines, particularly her friendship with Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, the presiding officer of the state Senate, who lost the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in 2012 to Ted Cruz.

Parliament of England

From the 1540s the presiding officer in the House of Commons became formally known as the "Speaker", having previously been referred to as the "prolocutor" or "parlour" (a semi-official position, often nominated by the monarch, that had existed ever since Peter de Montfort had acted as the presiding officer of the Oxford Parliament of 1258).

Presiding Officer of the United States Senate

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives

Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XIX

Any Senator directed by the Presiding Officer to take his seat and/or any Senator requesting the Presiding Officer to require a Senator to take his seat, may appeal from the ruling of the Chair, which appeal shall be open to debate.

United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Spencer Ackerman, writing in the Washington Independent, reported that Presiding Officer Stephen Henley had to consider whether he was authorized to accept guilty pleas.

Wool-stapler

The importance of wool to the English economy can be shown by the fact that since the 14th Century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the "Woolsack", a chair stuffed with wool.