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To: Paladin2
Ted Cruz or Mike Lee

They're Senators. If they were elected Speaker, they'd have to give up their Senate seat.

19 posted on 01/02/2015 10:31:18 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

You do not have to be a member of the house to be elected Speaker. It certainly would be unusual to have a senator as speaker of the house, but I don’t think there is anything in the constitution that forbids this.


62 posted on 01/02/2015 2:48:24 PM PST by erkelly
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