To: Sans-Culotte
Have I missed something? Is Newt in the House of Representatives? I thought he was an author and lecturer these days.
You don't have to be a member of the house to be Speaker
13 posted on
10/09/2015 7:45:12 AM PDT by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Robe
You don't have to be a member of the house to be SpeakerYeah, I have since looked it up. While being a member of Congress is not a requirement, there has apparently never been a Speaker who wasn't in Congress. So, you don't have to be in Congress, but the odds are against a speaker candidate who isn't.
31 posted on
10/09/2015 9:11:19 AM PDT by
Sans-Culotte
(''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
To: Robe; Sans-Culotte
>> You don’t have to be a member of the house to be Speaker <<
Correct.
Moreover, the Constitution doesn’t state any citizenship, residence or age requirements.
So you could be a twelve year-old transgendered Syrian Muslim refugee child and still be qualified, as long as you had 218 votes.
35 posted on
10/09/2015 12:00:06 PM PDT by
Hawthorn
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