1.   For the last two weeks, Newt Gingrich, the house speaker, has taken out after Clinton nearly every day.

2.   Hastert is the accidental house speaker who owes his job to DeLay and has all but handed over the speakership to him.

3.   However, that board, which includes the governor, lieutenant governor and house speaker, never voted on such a sale.

4.   The house speaker, Newt Gingrich, and the minority leader, Dick Gephardt, had signaled readiness to provide substantial new assistance.

5.   Orengo said new evidence implicating senior politicians has emerged, but the house speaker ruled affidavits by a reported witnesses to the killing inadmissible because they were not signed.

6.   But the political role of the pro-government military will remain unchanged despite the reduction, John A. Katili, a deputy house speaker, told reporters after the voting.

7.   During his visit, Kim is to meet with Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, house speaker Takako Doi, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and other officials.

8.   In a letter to the house speaker Tuesday, Adhikari repeated an appeal to postpone the debate.

9.   In an unusual move, a conference of house speakers in New Delhi unanimously condemned Bhandari on Thursday for interfering in the proceedings of the legislature.

10.   Samarn will be the second house speaker to stay in the post for longer than five years.