{"id":13622,"date":"2015-09-27T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2015-09-27T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:11:19","slug":"donald-trump-for-speaker-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13622","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump for Speaker of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/member_info\/memberfaq.aspx\">http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/member_info\/memberfaq.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states, &#8220;The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a Member of the House, all Speakers have been Members.<\/p>\n<p>When a Congress convenes for the first time, each major party conference or caucus nominates a candidate for Speaker. Members customarily elect the Speaker by roll call vote. A Member usually votes for the candidate from his or her own party conference or caucus but can vote for anyone, whether that person has been nominated or not.<\/p>\n<p>To be elected, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes cast\u2014which may be less than a majority of the full House because of vacancies, absentee Members, or Members who vote &#8220;present.&#8221; If no candidate receives the majority of votes, the roll call is repeated until a majority is reached and the Speaker is elected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is worth pointing out that if Republicans go into the vote without being unified, Nancy Pelosi might get her gavel back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/member_info\/memberfaq.aspx Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states, &#8220;The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers.&#8221; Although the Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a Member of the House, all Speakers have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13623,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}