Hi plop19,
The current Speaker of the House of Representatives is Dennis Hastert
from Illinois.
"Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who turned 62 on January 2nd, is now
serving his third term as Speaker, and his ninth term as a Republican
member of Congress representing Illinois' 14th Congressional District.
Hastert's home district is comprised of a suburban landscape with high
tech firms, small and large industrial complexes and expansive farm
land west of Chicago, including the boyhood home of President Ronald
Reagan in Dixon and his birthplace in Tampico. The 14th Congressional
District elected Hastert in 2002 with 74% of the overall vote."
Office of the Speaker
http://www.speaker.gov/features/biography.asp
More on Dennis Hastert:
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert
Dennis Hastert's predecessor was Newt Gingrich from the state of Georgia.
"...After all, Hastert, the Yorkville Republican who rose from high
school wrestling coach to take the helm of federal legislative power,
has come to embody in his 18 months as speaker of the U.S. House
everything his predecessor Newt Gingrich was not..."
CNN
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/08/01/ahd.hastert/
"Newt was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth
District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995, he was elected Speaker
of the U.S. House of Representatives where he served until 1999."
Newt.org
http://www.newt.org/index.php?submenu=about&src=gendocs&link=About%20Newt
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Rainbow |
