QUESTIONS:
1. After a year and a half as Senate minority leader, Trent Lott (R.-Miss.) will soon again be majority leader. Name the last three Republicans before Lott to have held the title of Senate majority leader?
2. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R.-Ill.)will be formally re-elected to his third term as speaker in January. Who was the last Republican before Hastert to win a third term as speaker?
3. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has been elected House Democratic leader for the new Congress beginning in January. Prior to her election, what Californian in either party had gone highest in the House leadership?
4. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R.-Wyo.) has said she will run for the chairmanship of the House Natural Resources Committee. At present, how many women are committee chairmen in the House?
5. What is the limitation on the tenure of the speaker of the House?
ANSWERS:
1. Senators William Knowland (Calif.), majority leader from 1953-54, Howard Baker (Tenn.), who held the post from 1980-84, and Bob Dole, who held it from 1984-86 and again from 1994-96.
2. Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, speaker from 1924-30.
3. Rep. Phil Burton (D.-Calif.), who was House Democratic Conference Chairman from 1972-76.
4. None.
5. Eight years.
