If both the Speakers cannot attend a session, a member of the Panel of Chairmen chairs the Assembly.

Speakers from many countries will be attending the October event in Brisbane to discuss pre-hospital care.

The Speaker, a Queens Democrat, did not attend today's hearing.

Speakers also frequently attend the law school.

Speakers from roughly eight Western and Central European countries and the US attended each of these annual conferences.

"The events the Speaker attends are almost always sellouts," said Representative Bill Paxon of upstate New York, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"The Speaker is attending to the problem," Tamanier said, exasperated.

In February 1811, he was elected Speaker after the previously elected Speaker Nathan Sanford could not attend the session because of ill health.

However, the Speaker normally does not attend meetings of the Boundary Commissions; instead, the Deputy Chairman of the Commission (usually a judge) normally presides.

Speakers from many countries will be attending that seminar.