1.   Armey is one of four top Gingrich lieutenants accused of encouraging dissident conservatives to try to oust the speaker.

2.   A few days earlier, he had met with a small group of conservatives, some of whom would like to see the speaker ousted.

3.   But some of his lieutenants still face questions about their roles in a plot to oust the speaker.

4.   DeLay, who has never been close to Gingrich, joined the plotters in devising a plan to oust the speaker with a rarely used parliamentary maneuver.

5.   In the House, would-be successors are jockeying for position while staffers are reportedly running a betting pool on when the speaker will be ousted.

6.   It must have seemed so righteous to oust a speaker then.

7.   It was the second time in five months his colleagues had ousted speaker Yuri Tsekov.

8.   The amendment states that the government can launch proceedings to oust the speaker who must then step down to allow debate in the House on the resolution.