Cleared, the peers who milked £1m in home expenses
Daily Mail
Attention was last night focused on Labour Speaker Baroness Hayman, who pocketed £18,000 a year in taxfree overnight allowances before she became speaker and now gets £38,000 a year for subsistence allowance on her mortgage-free London home...
Wis. speaker draws ire for dating lobbyist
CNBC
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin residents angry about Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan's relationship with a lobbyist sent him insulting e-mails this week, including some calling for his expulsion from his leadership position, messages released Fri...
Knesset Speaker freezes plan to have MKs fly business class
Haaretz.com
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin anounced on Tuesday that he would freeze new regulations that would upgrade Knesset members' flights to business class for visits abroad, after public outrage about the plan. If approved, the regulations, insti...
Retired Supreme Court Justice Souter will be principal speaker at ...
Los Angeles Times
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University says retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter will be the principal speaker at its spring commencement ceremony. The school announced Monday that Souter is scheduled to return to his alma mater M...
Self-Help Speaker Charged in AZ Sweat Lodge Deaths
ABC News
Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray, right, is led into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde,... Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray, right, is led into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde, Ariz. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Ray was a...
Come clean, state GOP
St. Petersburg Times
It is worth remembering that it took a criminal investigation into former House Speaker Ray Sansom to expose what appears to have been accepted practice. Flush with millions in political contributions, some Republican leaders had no problem...
Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish blocks presentation to 'Right to Life ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio teenager who won an oratory contest sponsored by the National Right to Life organization was stopped from being honored on the Ohio House floor by House Speaker Armond Budish. The Beachwood Democrat pulled the plug ...
Speaker warns MPs over comments on expenses cases
BBC UK News
Speaker John Bercow said the three should not be referred to Speaker John Bercow has warned MPs not to risk "the fairness of a criminal trial or prevent such a trial taking place" for the three expenses case MPs. In a brief statement Mr Ber...
