51.   --On health care, Gore will reminisce about protecting Medicaid from assaults by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker.

52.   NRA lobbyist Gib Lewis, a former Texas House speaker from Fort Worth, said he will be ready if the shootings prompt efforts to tighten state gun laws.

53.   Others have suggested that Bob Michel, a former House speaker, could take over.

54.   Previously, former speakers, like U.S. presidents, were allowed to keep their offices indefinitely.

55.   Raffarin added a number of junior ministers to his government, including the former European Parliament speaker, Nicole Fontaine, who became minister delegate for industry.

56.   Rep. George Nethercutt of Washington, who defeated the former speaker, Thomas Foley, acknowledged that the freshmen are not immune to politics.

57.   Recently I came across a speech given by Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, at the Heritage Foundation last November.

58.   Recognizing me as the former House speaker, he became very confidential.

59.   Rybkin, a former speaker of the lower house of Parliament, also inherited the job of presidential envoy to secessionist Chechnya.