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Speaker
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SPEAKER. The presiding officer of the house of representatives of the United States is so called. The presiding officer of either branch of the state legislatures generally bears this name.



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But in between there were the speakerships of Cruz Bustamante and Antonio Villaraigosa.
The Fresno lawmaker said he hoped to avoid the ``painful, punitive and nonproductive'' transitions of earlier speakerships, but he acknowledged that partisanship was a fact of life in the fractious Assembly, which has had four speakers in less than two years.
 
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